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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.
May the several Factories and Companies, whose Concerns'ly in Asia, Africa, or America, be persuaded, as Jacob once, and before him his Grandfather Abraham, was, That they always own unto God certain Proportions of their Possessions, by the honest payments of which little ⟨p. 150⟩Quit-rents, they would certainly secure and enlarge their Enjoyment of the Principal; but that they are under a very particular obligation to Communicate of our Spiritual Things, unto those Heathen, by whose Carnal Things they are Enriched: And may they therefore make it it their study, to employ some able and pious Ministers, for the instruction of those Infidels with whom they have to deal, and honourably support such Ministers in that Employment.
May the several Factories and Companies, whose Concerns'ly in Asia, Africa, or America, be perswaded, as Jacob once, and before him his Grandfather Abraham, was, That they always own unto God certain Proportions of their Possessions, by the honest payments of which little ⟨p. 150⟩Quit-rents, they would certainly secure and enlarge their Enjoyment of the Principal; but that they are under a very particular obligation to Communicate of our Spiritual Things, unto those Heathen, by whose Carnal Things they are Enriched: And may they therefore make it it their study, to employ some able and pious Ministers, for the instruction of those Infidels with whom they have to deal, and honourably support such Ministers in that Employment.
May the poor Greeks, Armenians, Muscovites, and others, in the Eastern Countries, wearing the Name of Christians, that have little Preaching and no Printing, and few Bibles, or good Books, now at last be furnished with Bibles, Orthodox Catechisms, and Practical Treatises, by the Charity of England; and may our Presses provide good stores of good Books for them, in their own Tongues, to be scattered among them. Who knows what convulsions might be hastened upon the whole Mahometan World by such an extensive charity!