A50170:59
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
Part 1 › Article 3: Article III. His Exemplary Mortification.
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Article III. His Exemplary Mortification.
Thus did Eliot endeavour to live unto God; but how much at the same time did he dye unto all the world?
THus did Eliot endeavour to live unto God; but how much at the same time did he dye unto all the world?
'Twere impossible to finish the lively Picture of this pious and holy Eliot, without some touches upon that Mortification, which accompanied him all his days; for never did I see a person more mortified unto all the pleasures of this Life, or more unwilling to moult the wing• of an Heaven-born Soul, in the dirty puddles of carnal and sensual Delights. We are all of us compounded of those two things, the Man, and, the Beast; but so powerful was, The Man, in this holy person, that it kept, The Beast, ever tied with a short Te•der and suppressed the irregular Calcurati•ns of it. He became so nailed unto the Cross of the Lord Jesus Christ, that the Grandeurs of this world were unto him just what they would be to a dying man; & he maintained an almost unparal•el'd indifferency towards all the pomps, which Mankind is too generally flattered and enchanted with.
'Twere impossible to finish the lively Picture of this pious and holy Eliot, without some touches upon that Mortification, which accompany'd him all his days; for never did I see a person more mortify'd unto all the pleasures of this Life, or more unwilling to moult the wing• of an Heaven-born Soul, in the dirty puddles of carnal and sensual Delights. We are all of us compounded of those two things, the Man, and, the Beast; but so powerful was, The Man, in this holy person, that it kept, The Beast, ever ty'd with a short Teder and suppressed the irregular Calcuratins of it. He became so nailed unto the Cross of the Lord Jesus Christ, that the Grandeurs of this world were unto him just what they would be to a dying man; & he maintained an almost unparalel'd indifferency towards all the pomps, which Mankind is too generally flattered and enchaned with.