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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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[…] hearing from the great God, was an •• •rcise ⟨p. 19⟩of like satisfaction unto the Soul of this good man, with speaking either to him, or of him. He was a mighty Student of the sacred Bible; and it was unto him as his necessary food. He made the Bible his Companion, and his Councillor, and the holy lines of Scripture more Enamoured him than the profane Ones of Tully, ever did the famous Italian Cardinal. He would not upon easy terms, have gone one day together, without using a portion of the Bible as an antidote against the infection of Temptation. And he would prescribe it unto others, with his probatum est upon it; as once particularly a pious Woman, vexed with a wicked Husband, complaining to him, That bad Company was all the day still infesting of her House, and what should she do? He advised her, Take the Holy Bible into your Hand, when the bad Company comes, and you'll soon drive them out of the House▪ the woman made the experiment, and thereby cleared her House from the Haunts that had molested it. By the like way 'twas that […] cleared his Heart of what he was loth […] Nesting there. Moreover, if ever any ma• could, he might, pretend unto that evidence o• Uprightness, Lord, I have loved the Habitation o• •hine House; for he not only gave somethi•• more than his presence there twice on […] Lords Days, and once a Fortnight besides […] b• Lectures, in his own Congregation ou• […] made his weekly visits unto the Lectures in th• ⟨p. 20⟩Neighbouring Towns; how often was he seen at Boston, Charlestown, Cambridge, •or•••ster, waiting upon the Word of God, in the Recurring Opportunities, and counting a Day in the Courts of the Lord better than a thousand? It is hardly conceivable, how in the mdst of so many Studies and Labours as he was at home engaged in, he could possibly repair to so many Lectures abroad; and herein he aimed, not only at his own Edification, but at the Countenancing and Encouraging of the Lectures which he went unto. Thus he took heed, that he might Hear, and he took as much heed how he Herd; he set himself as in the presence of the Eternal God, as the great Constantine used of old, in the Assemblies where he came, and said, I will hear what God the Lord will speak; he expressed a diligent attention, by a watchful and wakeful posture, and by turning to the Texts quoted by the Preacher;