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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.
He came to New-England, in the Month of November. A. D. 1631. among those Blessed old Planters, which laid the Foundations of a remarkable Country, devoted unto the Exercise of the Protestant Religion, in its purest and highest Reformation: He left behind him in England; a virtuous young Gentlewoman, whom he had pursued and purposed a Marriage unto […] and she coming hi•her the year following, that Marriage was Consummated, in the Month of October, A. D. 1632.
He came to New-England, in the Month of November. A. D. 1631. among those Blessed old Planters, which laid the Foundations of a remarkable Country, devoted unto the Exercise of the Protestant Religion, in its purest and highest Reformation: He left behind him in England; a vertuous young Gentlewoman, whom he had pursued and purposed a Marriage unto 〈…〉 and she coming hi•her the year following, that Marriage was Consummated, in the Month of October, A. D. 1632.
This Wise of his youth lived with him until ⟨p. 7⟩she became to him also the staff of his Age; and […] left him not until about three or four years before his own Departure to those Heavenly •egions, where they now together see Light. •he was a Woman very Eminent, both for Ho••ness and Usefulness, and she excelled most of •he Daughters that have done virtuously. Her Name was Ann, and Gracious was her Nature. •od made her a Rich Blessing, not only to her family, but also to her Neighbourhood; and when •t last she dyed, I heard and saw her aged Husband, who else very rarely wept, yet now with •ears over the Coffin, before the good people, […] vast confluence of which were come to her funeral, say, Here les my dear, faithful, pious, prudent, prayerful Wife; I shall go to her, and she ot return to me! My Reader will of his own accord excuse me, from bestowing any further Epitaphs upon that gracious Woman.