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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.
The CONCLUSION, Or, ELIOT Expiring.
By this time I have doubtless made my Readers loth to have me tell what now remains of this little History; doubtless they are wishing that this John might have T••ried until the Seco•• Coming of our Lord. But, alas All-Devouring Death at last snatched him from us, and slighted all those Lamentations of ours, My Father, My Father, the Chariots of Israel, and the Horsemen thereof!
By this time I have doubtless made my Readers loth to have me tell what now remains of this little History; doubtless they are wishing that this John might have T••ried until the Seco•• Coming of our Lord. But, alas All-Devouring Death at last snatch'd him from us, and slighted all those Lamentations of ours, My Father, My Father, the Chariots of Israel, and the Horsemen thereof!
When he was become a sort of Miles Emeritus, […] began to draw near his End, he grew still more Heavenly, more Savoury, more Divine, and Scented more of the spicy Country at which he was ready to put a shore. As the Historian observes of •ibe•ius. That when his Life and Strength were going from him, his Vice […] remained with him; on the contrary, the ⟨p. 136⟩