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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.
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⟩Grace of this Excellent Man rather increased than abated; when every thing else was dying with him. 'Tis too usual with Old men, that, when they are past work; they are least sensible of their inabilities and incapacities, and can scarce endure to see another succeeding them in any part of their Office. But our Eliot was of a F•mber quite contrary thereunto; for finding many Months before his Expiration, That he had not strength enough to Edify his Congregation with public Prayers, and Sermons, he importuned his people with some impatience to call another Mystery professing himself, unable to Die with Comfort, until he could see a good Successor ordained, settled, fixed among them. For this cause, he also cried mightily unto the Lord Jesus, our Ascended Lord, that he would give such â Gift unto Roxbury, and he sometimes called his whole Town together to join with him in a Fast for such a blessings. As the return of their Supplications, our Lord quickly bestowed upon them, a person young in years, but old in Discretion. Gravity, and Experience; and one whom the Church of Roxbury hopes to find, A Pastor after Goa' own Heart.