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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. ; [Two lines from Luke]
Boston: printed by Benjamin Harris for Joseph Brunning i.e, 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.
Wherefore, when there was brought among as a Book of pious Mr. Norc••'s, whereby some became Disposed to, or Confirmed in, a prejudice against P•edo-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 Faring Brother; but he acts the cause of a Roaring Lion, who by all 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, Christs, or the Fear of God prevailing in them; he could uphold a most intimate Correspondence with such a man, as Mr. Jesses •s long as he lived; and yet he knew how to be an Hammer upon their unhappy Errors.
Wherefore, when there was brought among as a Book of pious Mr. Norc••'s, whereby some became Disposed to, or Confirmed in, a prejudice against P•edo-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 Faring Brother; but he acts the cause of a Roaring Lion, who by all 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, Christs, or the Fear of God prevailing in them; he could uphold a most intimate Correspondence with such a man, as Mr. Jesses •s long as he lived; and yet he knew how to be an Hammer upon their unhappy Errors.