The triumphs of the reformed religion in America the life of the renowned John…

And another Excellency, which accompanied this Courage and Comfort in him was, A wonderful Resignation to the Will of God, in all Events. There were sore Afflictions that sometimes befell him; especially when he followed some of his hopeful and worthy Sons, two or three desirable Preachers of the Gospel, to their Graves. But he sacrificed them, l ke another Abraham; with such a sacred indifferency, as made all the Spectators to say, This could not be done without the Fear of God. Yea, he bore all his Trials with an admirable patience, and seemed loth to have any will of his own, that should not be wholly melted and moulded into the Will of his Heavenly Father. Once being in a Boat at Sea, a larger Vessel unhappily Over-run, and Over-set that little one which had no small Concerns, because Eliot's in the bottom of it; he immediately sunk without any expectation of ever going to Heaven a•y other way; and when he imagined that he had but one breath more to draw in the world, it was this, The will of the Lord be done! but it was the will of the ⟨p. 43⟩Lord, that he should survive the danger; for […] was rescued by the help that was then at hand, and he that had long been like Moses in eve•• thing else, was now dr•wn out of the Water […] Which gives me opportunity to mention or Remarkable that had some Relation hereunto. This Accident happened in the Time of our Indian Wars, when some furious English People that clamoured for the extirpation of the P•aying Indians, which were in subjection unto us, as well as the Pagan Indians that were in Hostility against us, vented a very wicked Rage at our holy Eliot, because of his concernment for the Indians; and one profane Monster hearing how narrowly Mr. Eliot escaped from Drowning, 'tis said, he wished this man of God had then been Drowned. But within a few da•s, that woeful man by a strange Disaster wa• Drowned in that very place, where Mr. Eliot had received his Deliverance.

And another Excellency, which accompanied this Courage and Comfort in him was, A wonderful Resignation to the Will of God, in all Events. There were sore Afflictions that sometimes befel him; especially when he follow'd some of his hopeful and worthy Sons, two or three desirable Preachers of the Gospel, to their Graves. But he sacrificed them, l ke another Abraham; with such a sacred indfferency, as made all the Spectators to say, This could not be done without the Fear of God. Yea, he bore all his Trials with an admirable patience, and seemed loth to have any will of his own, that should not be wholly melted and moulded into the Will of his Heavenly Father. Once being in a Boat at Sea, a larger Vessel unhappily Over-run, and Over-set that little one which had no small Concerns, because Eliot's in the bottom of it; he immediately sunk without any expectation of ever going to Heaven ay other way; and when he imagined that he had but one breath more to draw in the world, it was this, The will of the Lord be done! but it was the will of the