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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.
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His Conferences were like those which Tertullian affirms to have been common among the Saints in his Days, Ut qui sciret Dominum audire, as knowing that the Ear of God was open to them all; and he managed his Rudder so as to manifest that he was bound Heaven-ward, in •is whole Communication. He had a particu••• •art, at Spiritualizing of Earthly Objects, & Raising of high thoughts from very mean things. As, once going with some feebleness and weariness up the Hill on which his Meeting-house now stands, he said unto the person that led him, This is very like the way to Heaven, 'tis up Hill! the Lord by his Grace fetch us up! and instantly spying a Bush near him, he as nimbl• added; And truly there are Thorns and Briars i• the way too! Which instance I would not hav• singled out from the many thousands of hi• Occasional Reflections, but only that I might suggest unto the good people of Roxbury, something for them to think upon, when they are going up to the House of the Lord. It is enough that as the Friend of the famous Ursin coul• profess that he never went unto him witho•• coming away, aut doctior aut melior, either t•• •iser or the bette• from him; so, 'tis an ackno ledgment which more than one Friend of o Eliot's has made concerning him, I was […] with him, but ot, or might have got some […] from him.