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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.
In a word, he was one who Lived in He••• while he was on Earth; and there is no more th• ⟨p. 21⟩pure Justice in our endeavours that he should Live on Earth after he is in Heaven. We cannot say that we ever saw him walking any whither but he was therein walking with God; wherever he sat•, he had God by him, and it was in the Everlasting Arms of God th t he Si•pi at n•ght. M•thoughts he a little discovered his Heavenly way of living, when walking one day in his Garden, he •luck•d •p a w••d that he saw now and then growing there; at when a Friend pleasantly said unto him, Sir, you tell us, we must be Heavenly-[…]; but he immediately Reply d, I• is ••re; and •his is no impediment unto that; for were I s•re to go to H•aven to morrow, I would do what I do to D••. From such a frame of spirit it was that once in a visit, finding a Merchant in his Counting House, where he saw Books of B•sines• only on his Table, b•t all his Books of Devotion on the shelf, he gave this Advise unto him, Sir, Here's Earth •n the Table, and Heaven on the she•f; pray d••'t sit so much at the Table as altogether to forget the shelf; let not earth by any •ea•s thrust H ve out of your mind.