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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 last thing, that ever our Eliot put off, was, The care of all the Chu•o•rs which with a most Apostolical and Evangelical Temper he was continually, solicitous about. When the Churches of New-England were under a very ⟨p. 145⟩incomfortable prospect, by the advantage which men that sought the Ruin, of those golden and holy and Reformed Societies, had obtained against them. God put it into the heart of one well-known in these Churches, to take a Voyage into England that he might by his Mediations at Whitehall, divert the Storms that were impending over us. 'Tis not easy to express what Affection our Aged Eliot prosecuted this Undertaking with; and, what Thanksgiving he rendered unto God for any hopeful Successes of it. But because one of the last Times, and for ought I know, The Last, of his ever setting Pen to Paper in the world, was upon this occasion; I shall transcribe a short Letter, which was written by the shaking hand, that had heretofore by writing deserved so well from the Church of God, but was now taking its leave of writing for-ever. It was written to the person that was Engaging for us, and thus it Ran.
The last thing, that ever our Eliot put off, was, The care of all the Chu•o•rs which with a most Apostolical and Evangelical Temper he was continually, solicitous about. When the Churches of New-England were under a very ⟨p. 145⟩incomfortable prospect, by the advantage which men that sought the Ruine, of those golden and holy and Reformed Societies, had obtained against them. God put it into the heart of one well-known in these Churches, to take a Voyage into England that he might by his Mediations at Whitehal, divert the Storms that were impending over us. 'Tis not easy to express what Affection our Aged Eliot prosecuted this Undertaking with; and, what Thanksgiving he rendred unto God for any hopeful Successes of it. But because one of the last Times, and for ought I know, The Last, of his ever setting Pen to Paper in the world, was upon this occasion; I shall transcribe a short Letter, which was written by the shaking hand, that had heretofore by writing deserved so well from the Church of God, but was now taking its leave of writing for-ever. It was written to the person that was Engaging for us, and thus it Ran.