A50170:212
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
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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 G•lden Ca•dlesticks. Lord! make our Churches and keep them, yet Golden Candlesticks! Amen.
But I have not obtained the end of this History, nor may I let this H•sto y come to an end, until I do with some Importunity bespeak the endeavours of good men every where, to labour in that Harvest which the Blessed FLIO justly counted worthy of his utmost pains and cares. It was the confession of hemistcle, that the victories of Mltie would not let him sleep in quie ness; may those of our Eliot raise a like emulation in those that have now seen the life of this evangelical He! When one Robert Baly man years ago published a Book, wherein several Goss Lie by wh ch the name of that JOHN COTTON, who was known to be one of the Holiest Men then alive, was most Injuriously made odious unto the Churches abroad, were accompanied with some Reflections upon poor