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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
Letter: A LETTER Concerning the Success of the Gospel, amongst the INDIANS in New-England.
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.
Worthy and much Honoured Sir,
Your Letters were very grateful to me (a) by which I understand that you and others in your famous University of Utrecht desire to be informed concerning the converted Indians in America: Take therefore a true Account of them in a few words
YOur Leters were very grateful to me (a) by which I understand that you and others in your famous University of Utrecht desire to be informed concerning the converted Indians in America: Take therefore a true Account of them in a few words
It is above forty Years since that truly godly Man, Mr. John Elliot, Pastor of the Church at Rocksborough, (about a mile from Boston in New England) being warmed with a holy Zeal of Converting the Americans, set himself to ⟨p. 89⟩earn the Indian Tongue, that he might more easily and successfully (b) open to them the Mysteries of the Gospel; upon account of which he has been (and not undeservedly) called, The Apostle of the American Indians This Reverend Person, not without very great labour, Translated the whole Bible into the Indian Tongue; (c) he Translated also several English Treatises of Practical Divinity and Catechisms into their Language. Above 26 Years ago he gathered a Church of Converted Indian in a Town called (d) Natick; these Indians confessed their sins with Tears, and professed their Faith in Christ, and afterwards they and their Children were Baptized, and they were solemnly joined together in a Church-Covenant; the said Mr. Eliot was the first that Administered the Lords Supper to them. The pastor of that Church now is an Indian, his Name is Daniel. Besides this Church at Nature, among our Inhabitants in the •A ssaeouses Colony there are four Indian Assemblies, (e) where the Name of the true God and Jesus Christ is solemnly called upon; these Assemblies have some American Preachers. Mr. Eliot formerlnsed to preach to them once every fortnight, but now he is weakened with Labours and Old age, being in the Eighty fourth Year of his Age, and Preacheth not to the Indians oftener than once in two Months.