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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
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Article. V. Some Special Attainments, that were the Effects of his Piety, and Charity.
But what was the Effect of this Exemplary Piety, and Charity in our Eliot? It will be no wonder, to my Reader, if I tell him, That this good man walked in the light of Gods Countenance all the day long. I believe he had a continual Assurance of the divine Lo e, marvellously Sealing, Strengthening, and Refreshing of him, for many lustres of years before he Died; and for this cause, the fear of Death was Extirpated out of his heavenly Soul, more than out of most men alive. Had our blessed Jesus at any time sent his Wagons to fetch this old Jacob away, he would have gone without the least Reluctancies. ⟨p. 42⟩Labouring once under a Fever and Ague, a Visi•ant asked him, How he did? and he Replied Very well, but anon I expect a paroxysm. Sa•d the Visi•ant, Sir, fear not; but unto that he answered, Fear! No, no; I been't afraid, I thank God, I been t afraid to Die! Dying would not have been any more to him, than Sleeping to a weary man.
But what was the Effect of this Exemplary Piety, and Charity in our Eliot? It will be no wonder, to my Reader, if I tell him, That this good man walked in the light of Gods Countenance all the day long. I believe he had a continual Assurance of the divine Lo e, marvellously Sealing, Strengthning, and Refreshing of him, for many lustres of years before he Dy'd; and for this cause, the fear of Death was Extirpated out of his heavenly Soul, more than out of most men alive. Had our blessed Jesus at any time sent his Wggons to fetch this old Jacob away, he would have gone without the least Reluctancies.