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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.
(h) The sacred and solemn Exercises performed in the Indian Congregations.
MY Fathers Account of the Exercises performed in the Indian-Congregations, will-tell us what a Blessed Fruit our Eliot saw of his Labours, before he went unto those Rewards which God had Reserved in the Heavens for him. Some of the Indians quickly Built for themselves, good and large Meeting-houses after the English Mode, in which also after the English Mode, they attended the Things of the Kingdom of Heaven. And some of the English were helpful to them, upon ⟨p. 116⟩this account; among whom I ought particularly to mention that Learned, Pious, and Charitable Gentleman, the Worshipful Samuel Sewal Esq who at his own charge built a Meeting house for one of the Indian Congregations, and gave those Indians cause to pray for him under that character, He loveth Our Nation, for he: hath built us a Synagogue.
MY Fathers Account of the Exercises performed in the Indian-Congregations, will-tell us what a Blessed Fruit our Eliot saw of his Labours, before he went unto those Rewards which God had Reserv'd in the Heavens for him. Some of the Indians quickly Built for themselves, good and large Meeting-houses after the English Mode, in which also after the English Mode, they attended the Things of the Kingdome of Heaven. And some of the English were helpful to them, upon ⟨p. 116⟩this account; among whom I ought particularly to mention that Learned, Pious, and Charitable Gentleman, the Worshipful Samuel Sewal Esq who at his own charge built a Meeting house for one of the Indian Congregations, and gave those Indians cause to pray for him under that character, He loveth Our Nation, for he: hath built us a Synagogue.