A50170:207
The triumphs of the reformed religion in America the life of the renowned John…
The triumphs of the reformed religion in America the life of the renowned John Eliot, a person justly famous in the church of God, not only as an eminent Christian and an excellent minister among the English, but also as a memorable evangelist among the Indians of New-England : with some account concerning the late and strange success of the Gospel in those parts of the world which for many ages have lain buried in pagan ignorance / written by Cotton Mather.The triumphs of the reformed religion in America the life of the renowned John Eliot, a person justly famous in the church of God, not only as an eminent Christian and an excellant minister among the English, but also as a memorable evangelist amoung the Indians of New-England : with some account concerning the late and strange success of the Gospel in those parts of the world which for many ages have lain buried in pagan ignorance / written by Cotton Mather.
Boston: printed by Benjamin Harris and John Allen for Joseph Brunning, 1691
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
If the Dust of dead Saints could give us any protection, we are not without it; here is a Spot of American Soil that will afford a rich Crop of it, at the Resurrection of the Just. Poor New-England has been as Glastonbury of old was called, A Burying-place of Saints. But we cannot see a more terrible Prognostic, than Tombs filling apace with such Bones, as those of the Renowned Eliot's; the whole Building of this Country trembles at the Fall of such a Pillar.
If the Dust of dead Saints could give us any protection, we are not without it; here is a Spot of American Soyl that will afford a rich Crop of it, at the Resurrection of the Just. Poor New-England has been as Glastenbury of old was called, A Burying-place of Saints. But we cannot see a more terrible Prognostick, than Tombs filling apace with such Bones, as those of the Renowned Eliot's; the whole Building of this Country trembles at the Fall of such a Pillar.
For many Months before, he died, he would often cheerfully tell us, That he was shortly going to Heaven and that he would carry a deal of good News thither with him; he ⟨p. 144⟩said, He would carry Tidings to the Old-Founders of New-England, which were now in Glory, that Church-work was yet carried on among us: that the Number of our Churches was continually increasing: and that the Churches were still kept as big as they were, by the daily Additions of those that shall be saved. But the going of such as he from us, will apace diminish the occasions of such happy Tidings.
For many Months before, he dy'd, he would often chearfully tell us, That he was shortly going to Heaven and that he would carry a deal of good News thither with him; he ⟨p. 144⟩said, He vvould carry Tidings to the Old-Founders of New-England, which were now in Glory, that Church-work was yet carried on among us: that the Number of our Churches was continually encreasing: and that the Churches were still kept as big as they were, by the daily Additions of those that shall be saved. But the going of such as he from us, will apace diminish the occasions of such happy Tidings.