A50170:72
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.
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 jo•n with him, in such Beneficences. 'Twas a marvellous Alacrity, with which he embraced a•l opportunities of Relieving any, tha• were miserable; & the good people of •oxbury doubtless cannot ⟨p. 37⟩remember (but the Righteous God will!) how often, and with what Ardours, with what Arguments, he became a Beggar to them, for Collections in their Assemblies to support such needy Objects, as had fallen under his Observation. The poor counted him their Father, and repaired still unto him, with a fial confidence in their Necessities; and they were more than seven or igh, or indeed than so many scores, who received their potions of his Bouny. Like that worth and famous Engl sh General, he could not persuade himself, That he had any thing but wat he gave away; but he drove a mighty Trade at such Exercises as he thought would furnish him with Bils f Exchange, which he hoped after many days to find the comfort of; and yet after all, he would say like one of the most charitable Souls that ever lived in the World, Tha looking over his Accounts, he could no where fi d he God of Heaven charged a Debtor there. He did not put off his Charity, to be put in his last Will, as many who therein show that their Charity is against their will; but he was his own Administrator; he made his own ands his Executors, and his own Eyes his Overseers. It has been Remarked, That liberal men are often long-lived m n; so do they after may days find the Bed with which the have been willing to keep oer men e. The great age of our Eliot was but agreeable to this Remark; & when his Age had unfitted him for almost all Employments,