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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.
These two or three lines manifest the Care of the Churches which breathed in this great old, man, as long as he had a Breath to draw in the world. And since he has lest few like him for a Comprehensive and Universal Regard unto the prosperity of all the Flocks in this Wilderness, we have little now to comfort us in the, loss of one so like a Patriarch among us, but only this, That our poor Churches, it may be •op'd, have him some interest in the Cares of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who walks in the midst of the Garden Candlesticks. Lord! make our Churches and keep them, yet Golden Candlesticks! Amen
These two or three lines manifest the Care of the Churches which breath'd in this great old, man, as long as he had a Breath to draw in the world. And since he has lest few like him for a Comprehensive and Universal Regard unto the prosperity of all the Flocks in this Wilderness, we have little now to comfort us in the, loss of one so like a Patriarch among us, but only this, That our poor Churches, it may be •op'd, have him some interest in the Cares of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who walks in the midst of the Garden Candlesticks. Lord! make our Churches and keep them, yet Golden Candlesticks! Amen
But I have not obtained the end of this History, not may I set this History come to an end, until I do with some importunity bespeak the endeavours of good men every where to labour in that Harvest which the Blessed ELIOT justly •oanted worthy of his utmost pains and cares. It was the confession of I Themistocles, that the victories of Assistance would not let him sleep in qu•e•ness; may those of our Eliot raise a like emulation in those that have now seen the life of this evangelical He••! When one Robert Barley man• years ago published a Book, wherein several […] by which the name of that JOHN COTTON, who was known to be one of the Holiest Men then alive, was most injustiously made odious unto the Churches abroad, were […] with some Reflections upon poor