A50170:9
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
Dedication: To the Right Honourable PHILIP Lord WHARTON. A no less Noble than Aged PATRON of LEARNI…
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May it please Your Lordship;
IF it be considered, that some Evangelical and Apostolical Histories of the New-Testament, were by the Direction of the Holy Spirit Himself, Dedicated unto a Person of Quality, and tha• the Noble Person Addressed with One such Dedication, entertained it with Resentments that encouraged his dear Lucillius to make a Second, the world Will be satisfied that I do a thing but Reasonable and Agreeable, when, unto a Narrative of many Evangelical and Apostolical Affairs, I presume to prefix the Name of one so Excellent for Love to God, as Your Lordship is known to be: and One ⟨image 3⟩upon this account only, an Unmeet subject for th• praises of the obscure pen which now writes, tha• Quis Vituperat? I do not, I dare not, so far Intrude upon Your Honour, as to ask Your Patronage unto all the New-English Principles & Practices, which are found in the Character of our Celebrated ELIOT; for; as the Distance of a Thousand Leagues, ha• made it impossible for me to attend the (usual) Orders and Manners of asking first Your Allowance for what I have openly Entitled you unto; so, the Renowned ELIOT is gone beyond any occasions for the greatest Humane Patronage.
IF it be considered, that some Evangelical and Apostolical Histories of the New-Testament, were by the Direction of the Holy Spirit Himself, Dedicated unto a Person of Quality, and tha• the Noble Person Addressed with One such Dedica•i•n, entertained it with Resentments that encouraged his dear Lucillius to make a Second, the world Will be satisfy'd that I do a thing but Reas•nable and Agreeable, when, unto a Narrative of many Evangelical and Apostolical Affa•rs, I presume to prefix the Name of one so Excellent for Love to God, as Your Lordship is known to be: and One