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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.
This was the peace, in the end of this perfect and upright man; thus was there another Star fetched away to be placed among the Rest that the third Heaven is now enriched with. He had once, I think, a pleasant Fear, that the old saints of his Acquaintance, especially those two dearest Neighbours of his, Cotton, of Boston, and Mather, of Dorchester, which were got safe to Heaven before him, would suspect him to be gone the wrong way, because he staid so long behind them. But they are now together with a blessed Jesus, Beholding of his Glory, and celebrating that High Praises of Him that has called them into his marvellous light. Whether Heaven was any more Heaven to him, because of his finding there, so many Saint with whom he once had his Delicious and Celestial Intimacies, yea, and so many Saints which had been the seals of his own Ministry, in this lower world, I cannot say; but it would be Heaven enough unto him, to go unto that Jesus, whom he had loved preached, served, and in whom he had been long Assured, there does All Fullness dwell. In that Heaven now leave him; but not without Grynaus's pathetical Exclamations, [O bea•um illum diem!] Blessed will be the Day, O blessed the Day of our Arrival to the glorious Assembly of spirits, which this great Saint is now rejoicing with.
This was the peace, in the end of this perfect and upright man; thus was there another Star fetched away to be placed among the Rest that the third Heaven is now enriched with. He had once, I think, a pleasant Fear, that the old saints of his Aquaintance, especially those two dearest Neighbours of his, Co•ton, of Boston, and Mather, of Dorchester, which were got safe to Heaven before him, would suspect him to be gone the wrong way, because he staid so long behind them. But they are now together with a blessed Jesus, Beholding of his Glory, and celebrating that High Praises of Him that has call'd them into his marvellous light. Whether Heaven was any more Heaven to him, because of his finding there, so many Saint with whom he once had his Delicious and Caelestial Intimacies, yea, and so many Saints which had been the seals of his own Ministry, in this lower world, I cannot say; but it would be Heaven enough unto him, to go unto that Jesus, whom he had lov'd preached, serv'd, and in whom he had been long Assured, there does All Fullness dwell. In that Heaven now leave him; but not without Grynaus's pathetical Exclamations, [O bea•um illum diem!] Blessed will be the Day, O blessed the Day of our Arrival to the glorious Assembly of spirits, which this great Saint is now rejoycing with.