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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
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As he took thus delight in speaking to th• ⟨image 13⟩Almighty God, no less did he in speaking of him, but in serious and savoury Discourses, he still had his Tongue, like the Pen of a ready Writer. The Jesuits once at Nola made a no less profane than severe Order, That no man should speak of God at all; but this excellent person almost made it an Order wherever he came, to speak of nothing but God. He was indeed sufficiently pleasant and witty in Company, and he was affable and facetious rather than morose in Conversation; but he had a Remarkable Gravity mixed with it, and a singular skill of Raising some holy Observation out of whatever matter of Discourse lay before him; nor would he o• dinarily dismiss any Theme without some gracious, divine, pithy Sentence thereupon. Doubtless, he imposed it as a Law upon himself, tha• he would leave something of God, and Heave• and Religion, with all that should come a […] him; so that in all places, his company was a• tended with Majesty and Reverence; and it wa• no sooner proper for him to speak but, li•• Mary's opened Box of Ointment, he stilled […] whole Room with the perfumes of the Grace in his Lips, and the Christian Hearers taste• a gr•ater sweetness in his •ell-seasoned Speeches, than the illu••••ous •••er ascribed […] the Orations of hi• •est▪
As he took thus delight in speaking to th• ⟨image 13⟩Almighty God, no less did he in speaking of him, but in serious and savoury Discourses, he still had his Tongue, like the Pen of a ready Writer. The Jesuits once at Nola made a no less profane than severe Order, That no man should speak of God at all; but this excellent person almost made it an Order wherever he came, to speak of nothing but God. He was indeed sufficiently pleasant and witty in Company, and he was affable and facetious rather than morose in Conversation; but he had a Remarkable Gravity mixed with it, and a singular skill of Raising some holy Observation out of whatever matter of Discourse lay before him; nor would he o dinarily dismiss any Theme without some gratious, divine, pithy Sentence thereupon. Doubtless, he imposed it as a Law upon himself, tha he would leave something of God, and Heave and Religion, with all that should come a him; so that in all places, his company was a tended with Majesty and Reverence; and it wa no sooner proper for him to speak but, li Mary's opened Box of Oyntment, he stil'd whole Room with the perfumes of the Grace in his Lips, and the Chstian Hearers taste a grater sweetness in his ell-seasoned Speeces, than the illuous er ascrib'd the Orations of hi est