A50170:98
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
Part 2 › Article 4: Article IV. His Cares about the Children of his people.
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.
Wherefore, when there was brought among us a Book of pious Mr. Norcot's, whereby some became Disposed to, or Confirmed in, a prejudice against Paedo-Baptism, it was not long before Mr. Eliot published a little Answer thereunto; the first lines whereof presently discover what a Temper he writ it with; says he, The Book speaks with the voice of a Lamb, and I think the Author is a Godly, though Erring Broth[…] but he acts the cause of a Roaring Lion, who by […] crafty ways, seeketh to devour the poor Lambs of the Flock of Christ. And so he goes on to plead the cause of them that cannot speak for themselves. No man could entertain a person of a different persuasion from himself, with more sweetness and kindness, than he, when he saw, Aliquid Christi, or the Fear of God prevailing in them; he could uphold a most intimate Correspondence with such a man, as Mr. Jessey, as long as he lived; and yet he knew how to be an Hammer upon their unhappy Errors.
Wherefore, when there was brought among us a Book of pious Mr. Norcot's, whereby some became Disposed to, or Confirmed in, a prejudice against Paedo-Baptism, it was not long before Mr. Eliot published a little Answer thereunto; the first lines whereof presently discover what a Temper he writ it with; says he, The Book speaks with the voice of a Lamb, and I think the Author is a Godly, though Erring Broth〈…〉 but he acts the cause of a Roaring Lion, who by 〈…〉 crafty ways, seeketh to devour the poor Lambs of the Flock of Christ. And so he goes on to plead the cause of them that cannot speak for themselves. No man could entertain a person of a different perswasion from himself, with more sweetness and kindness, than he, when he saw, Aliquid Christi, or the Fear of God prevailing in them; he could uphold a most intimate Correspondence with such a man, as Mr. Jessey, as long as he lived; and yet he knew how to be an Hammer upon their unhappy Errors.
But having once Baptised the Children of his Covenanting Neighbours, he did not as too many Ministers do, think, that he had now done with them. No, another thing wherein he was very laborious for poor Children was, the Catechising ⟨p. 58⟩