A50170:67
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.
My Reader shall have a Touch or two, from a Manuscript of his, which I have in my hands, against (as he calls it) The violent and insuperable Lust of Long Hair. He thus argues.
'Tis a sin for a man to do that whereof he hath cause to be ashamed, Pro. 14.34. Rom. 6.21. But it is a shame for a man to wear long hair, 1 Cor. 11.14. Therefore 'tis a Sin. Obj. It was then so; but now 'tis a fashion and glory to do otherwise. Ans. Nature is the same now as then; Unchangeable. It speaks as loud now as it did then; only our Ears are so covered with Locks, that we cannot hear it! Again, Long Hair on the Head, & No Hair on the Face, is the Habit of a Woman, 1 Cor. 11.16. But it is a sinful Abomination for a Man to wear the Habit of a Woman, Deut. 22.5. ⟨p. 36⟩Therefore 'tis a sinful Abomination, for a man to wear long Hair on his Head, and no H••• on his Face.
'Tis a sin for a man to do that whereof he hath cause to be asha•ed, Pro. 14.34. Rom. 6.21. But it is a shame for a man to wear long hair, 1 Cor. 11.14. Therefore 'tis a Sin. Obj. It was then so; but now 'tis a fashion and glory to do otherwise. Ans. Nature is the same now as then; Unchangeable. It speaks as loud now as it did then; only our Ears are so covered with Locks, that we cannot hear it! Again, Long Hair on the Head, & No Hair on the Face, is the Habit of a Woman,