A50170:218
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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May the poor Greeks, Armenians, Muscovites, and others, in the Eastern Countries, wearing the Name of Christians, that have little Preaching and no Printing, and few Bibles, or good Books, now at last be furnished with Bibles, Orthodox Catechisms, and Practical Treatises by the Charity of England; and may our Presses provide good stores of good Books for them, in their own Tongues, to be scattered among them. Who knows what convulsions might be hastened upon the whole Mahometan World by such an extensive charity!
May the poor Greeks, Armentans, Muscovites, and others, in the Eastern Countrys, wearing the Name of Christians, that have little Preaching and no Printing, and few Bibles, or good Books, now at last be furnished with Bibles, Orthodox Catechisms, and Pra•tical Treatises by the Charity of England; and may our Presses provide good stores of good Books for them, in their own Tongues, to be scattered among them. Who knowes what convulsions might be hastened upon the whole Mahometan World by such an extensive charity!
May sufficient Numbers of great, wise, rich, learned, and godly men in the three kingdoms, procure well-composed Societies, by whose united counsels, the Noble Design of Evangelizing the world, may be more effectually carried on; and if some generous persons will of their own Accord combine for such consultations, who can tell, but like some other Celebrated Societies heretofore formed from such small Beginnings, ⟨p. 151⟩they may soon have that countenance of Authority, which may produce very glorious Effects, and give opportunity to gather vast Contributions from all well disposed people, to Assist and Advance this progress of Christianity. God forbid, that popery should expend upon cheating, more than ten times what we do upon Saving, the Immortal Souls of men.
May sufficient Numbers of great, wise, rich, learned, and godly men in the three kingdomes, procure well-composed Socie•ies, by whose united counsels, the Noble Design of Evangelizing the world, may be more effectually carried on; and if some generous persons will of their own Accord combine for such consultations, who can tell, but like some other Celebrated Societies heretofore formed from such small Beginnings,