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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 Inspired Moses relating the Lives of those Ante-diluvian Patriarchs, in whom the Church of God and Line of Christ was continued, through the first sixteen hundred years of Time, recites little but their Birth, and their Age, and their Death, and their Sons and Daughters. If those Articles would satisfy the Appetites and Enquires of such as come to Read the Life of our Eliot, we shall soon have dispatched the work now upon our Hands. The Age with the Death of this worthy man, has been already terminated, in the Ninetieth year of the present Century, and the Eighty sixth ⟨p. 6⟩Year of his own Pilgrimage. And for his Birth it was at a Town, in England: the Name whereof I cannot presently Recover; nor is […] necessary for me to look back so far as the place of his Nativity; any more than 'tis for me t•• recite the Virtues of his Parentage, of which h•• said, vix ea nostra voso. The Atlantic Ocean like a River of Lethe, may easily cause us t• forget many of the things that happened o• the other side. Indeed the Nativity of such […] man, were an Honour worthy the Contention of as many places as laid their Claims unto the famous Homer's; but whatever places may challenge a share in the Reputation of having Enjoyed the st••st Breath of our Eliot, it is New-England that with most Right can call him Hers; his best Breath, and afterwards, his la•• Breath as here; and here 'twas, that God be stowed upon him Sons and Daughters.
THe Inspired Moses relating the Lives of those Ante-diluvian Patriarchs, in whom the Church of God and Line of Christ was continued, through the first sixteen hundred years of Time, recites little but their Birth, and their Age, and their Death, and their Sons and Daughters. If those Articles would satisfie the Appetites and Enquires of such as come to Read the Life of our Eliot, we shall soon have dispatch'd the work now upon our Hands. The Age with the Death of this worthy man, has been already terminated, in the Ninetieth year of the present Century, and the Eighty sixth ⟨p. 6⟩Year of his own Pilgrimage. And for his Birth it was at a Town, in England: the Name whereof I cannot presently Recover; nor is necessary for me to look back so far as the place of his Nativity; any more than 'tis for me t recite the Vertues of his Parentage, of which h said, vix ea nostra voso. The Atlantick Ocean like a River of Lethe, may easily cause us t forget many of the things that happened o the other side. Indeed the Nativity of such man, were an Honour worthy the Contention of as many places as laid their Claims unto the famous Homer's; but whatever places may challenge a share in the Reputation of having Enjoy'd the stst Breath of our Eliot, it is New-England that with most Right can call him Hers; his best Breath, and afterwards, his la Breath as here; and here 'twas, that God be stow'd upon him Sons and Daughters.