A50170:23
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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Tis the Life of the Renowned John Eliot, which is to be now put into our Pages; a Life which Commenced about the Year 1604. And Expired, in the Year 1690.
The Inspired Moses relating the Lives of those Ante-diluvian Patriarchs, in whom the Church of God and Li•e of Christ was continued, through the first sixteen hundred years of Time recites little but their Birth, and •heir Age, and their Death, and their Sons and Daughters. •f those Articles would satisfy the Appetites and Enquiries of such as come to B•ead the Life of our Eliot, we shall soon have dispatc 'd the work now upon our Hands. The Age with the Death of this worthy man, has •een already terminated, in the Ninetieth year •f the present Century, and the Eighty sixth ⟨p. 6⟩Year of his own Pilgrimage. And for his Birth it was at a Town, in England; the Nam• whereof I cannot presently Recover; nor is […] necessary for me to look back so far as the pla•• of his Nativity; any more than 'tis for me t• recite the Virtues of his Parentage, of which h• said, vix ea nostra voco. The Atlantic Ocean like a River of Lethe, may easily cause us t• forget many of the things that happened o• the other side. Indeed the Nativity of such a man, were an Honour worthy the Contention of as many places as laid their Claims unto th• famous Homer's; but whatever places may challenge a share in the Reputation of having Enjoyed the first Breath of our Eliot, it is New-England that with most Right can call him Hers; his best Breath, and afterwards, his last Breath was here; and here 'twas, that God bestowed upon him Sons and Daughters.