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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
Part 1 › Article 3: Article III. His Exemplary Mortification.
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.
Thus Mr. Eliot thought that for Men to wear their H•ir with a luxurious, Delicate, Feminine prolixity; or for them to preserve no plain Distinction of their Sex, by the Hair of their Head and Face; and much more, for men thus to disfigure themselves with Hair •hat is N•me of their own; and most of all, for Ministers of the Gospel to ruffle it in Excesses of this kind; may prove more than we are well aware, displeasing to the Holy Spirit of God. The H•ir of them that professed Religion, long before his Death, grew too long for him to swallow; and he would express himself continually with a boiling zeal concerning it, until at last he gave over, with some Regret complaining, ⟨p. 35⟩The Lust is become insuperable! I know not whether that horrible Distemper prevailing in some European Countries known by the name of Plica polo•ica, wherein the Hair of people matted into ugly and filthy forms, like Snakes upon their heads, which whosoever cut off presently fell blind or mad; I say, I know not whether this Disease was more odious in it self, than the sweeter, neater, but prolix Locks of many people were to our Eliot. He was indeed one priscis moribus, as well as Antiqua si•e; and he might be allowed somewhat even of severity, in this matter on that account.
Thus Mr. Eliot thought that for Men to wear their H•ir with a luxurious, Delicate, Faeminine prolixity; or for them to preserve no plain Distinction of their Sex, by the Hair of their Head and Face; and much more, for men thus to disfigure themselves with Hair •hat is N•me of their own; and most of all, for Ministers of the Gospel to ruffle it in Excesses of this kind; may prove more than we are well aware, displeasing to the Holy Spirit of God. The H•ir of them that professed Religion, long before his Death, grew too long for him to swallow; and he would express himself continually with a boiling zeal concerning it, until at last he gave over, with some Regret complaining,