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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
Preliminary 2: Preliminary II.Preliminary 2: Praeliminary II.
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.
Preliminary II.
Praeliminary II.
Mr. Eliots, early Conversion, sacred Employment, and just Removal into America.
But all that I have hitherto said, is no more than an entrance into the History of our Eliot. Such an Enoch as he, must have something more than these things recorded of him; his Walk with God, must be more largely laid before the world, as a thing that would bespeak us all to be Followers no less than we shall be Admirers of it.
He had not passed many Turns in the world, before he knew the meaning of a saving Turn from the Vanities of an Unregenerate State, unto God in Christ, by a true Repentance; he had the singular happiness and privilege of an early Conversion from the Ways, which Original Si• disposes all men unto. One of the principal instruments which the God of Heaven used in tingeing, and filling the mind of this chose• V•ssl, with good principles, was that Venerable Thomas Hokr, whose Name in the Churches o the Lord Jesus, is, As an Ointment poured forth even hat Hooker, of whom worthy Master Fuller could write, As Latimer would not stick […] say, Saint Bilney, so neither I to say, Saint Hooke that Hooker, who having Angled many scores […] Souls into the Kingdom of Heaven, at last a