A50170:68
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.
Article IV. His Exq• ••te Charity.
HE that will w••te of Eliot, must write of •hari••, or say nothing His Charity was a S•ar of the •i•st Magnitude in the bright Constellation of his Virtues; and the Rays of it were wonderfully various and extensive.
HE that will w••te of Eliot, must write of •hari••, or say nothing His Charity was a S•ar of the •i•st M•gnitude in the bright Constellation of his Vertues; and the Rays of it were wonderfully various and extensive.
His Liberality to pious Uses, whether public or private, w•nt much beyond the proportions of his little Estate in the world. Many Hundreds of Pounds did he freely bestow upon the poor; and he would with a very forcible importunity press his Neighbours to jon with him, in such Beneficences. 'Twas a marvellous Alacrity, with which he embraced al opportunities of Relieving any, tha were miserable; & the good people of oxbury doubtless cannot