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

I cannot find that any besides the Holy Spirit of God, first moved him to the blessed Work of Evangelizing these perishing Indians; 'twas that Holy Spirit which laid before his mind the Ideal of that which is now on the Seal of the Massachuset-Colony; A poor Indian having a Label going from his mouth, with a, COME OVER AND HELP US. It was the spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ, which enkindled in him a Fury, for the dark, dying damning souls of these Natives, whom the god of this world had blinded, through all the By past Ages. He was none of those that make, the Salvation of the Heather, an Article of their C•ead; but (setting aside the unrevealed and extraordinary Steps which the Holy One of s•rail may take out of His usual Paths) he thought seen to be lost if our Gospel be hidden from them; and he was of the same Opinion with one of the Ancients, who said, Some […] to prove Plato a Christian, till they prove them selves little better than Heathen. It is indeed a principle in the Turkish Alcoran, That Let a man's Religion be what it will, he shall be saved, if be conse•ention sl•• live up to the F•les of it: but our Eliot was no Mahometan. He could most heartily subscribe ⟨p. 76⟩to that passage in the Articles of the Ch. of Engl. They are to be held accursed, who presume to say, that every man shall be saved by the Law or Sect which he professeth, so that he be diligent to frame his life according to that Law, and Light of Nature; For Holy Scripture doth set out unto us, Only the Name of Jesus Christs, whereby men must be Saved. And it astonished him to see many dissembling Subscribers of those Articles, while they have grown up to such a Frenzy, as to deny peremptorily all Church-state, and all Salvation to all that are not under Diocesan Bishops, yet at the same time to grant that the Heathen might he saved without the Knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. No, it very powerfully moved his holy Bowels to hear the Thunderclaps of that Imprecation over the heads of our Naked Indians, Pour out thy Fury upon the Heathen that know thee not; and thought he, What shall I do to rescue those▪ Heathen from that all-devouring Fury?

I cannot find that any besides the Holy Spirit of God, first moved him to the blessed Work of Evangilizing these perishing Indians; 'twas that Holy Spirit which laid before his mind the Ideal of that which is now on the Seal of the Massachuset-Colony; A poor Indian having a Label going from his mouth, with a, COME OVER AND HELP US. It was the spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ, which enkindled in him a Fury, for the dark, dying damning souls of these Natives, whom the god of this world had blinded, through all the By past Ages. He was none of those that make, the Salvation of the Heather, an Article of their Cead; but (setting aside the unrevealed and extraordinary Steps which the Holy One of srail may take out of His usual Pahes) he thought seen to be lost if our Gospel be hidden from them; and he was of the same Opinion with one of the Ancients, who said, Some to prove Plato a Christian, till they prove them selves little better than Heathen. It is indeed a principle in the Turkish Alcorn, That Let a man's Religion be what it will, he shall be saved, if be conseention sl live up to the Fles of it: but our Eliot was no Mahometan. He could most heartily subscribe