A50170:211
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.
Reverend and Beloved, Mr. Increase Mather. I cannot write. Read Neh 2.10. When Sanballat. the Horonite, and Tob•jah the Servant, the Ammonite, heard of it; it grieved them exceedingly, that there was come a man to seek the Welfare of the Children of Israel. Let thy blessed Soul, feed full and fat upon this and other Scriptures. All other things I leave to other men; and rest, Your Loving Brother, John Eliot
These two or three lines manifest the Care of the Churches which breathed in this great old man, as long as he had a Breath to draw in the world And since he has left few like him for a Comprehensive and Universal Regard unto the prosperity of all the Flocks in this Wilderness, we •a•e little now to comfort us in the loss of one so like a Patriarch among us, but only this, ••at our poor Churches, it may be hoped, ha•e •till some Interest in the Cares of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who walks in the midst of the Golden Candlesticks. Lord! make our Churches and keep them, yet Golden Candlesticks! Amen.
These two or three lines manifest the Care of the Churches which breath'd in this great old man, as long as he had a Breath to draw in the world And since he has left few like him for a Comprehe•sive and Universal Regard unto the prosperity of all the Flocks in this Wilderness, we •a•e little now to comfort us in the loss of one so like a Patriarch among us, but only this, ••at our poor Churches, it may be hop'd, ha•e •till some Interest in the Cares of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who walks in the midst of the Glden Cadlesticks. Lord! make our Churches and keep them, yet Golden Candlesticks! Amen.