The triumphs of the reformed religion, in America. The life of the renowned John…

But all that I have hitherto said, is no more than an entrance into the History of our Eliot. Such an Enoch as he, must have something more than these things recorded of him; his Walk with God, must be more largely laid before the world, as a thing that would bespeak us all to be Followers no less than we shall be Admirers of it.

He had not passed many Turns in the world, before he knew the meaning of a saving Turn from the Vanities of an Unregenerate State▪ unto God in Christ, by a true Repentance; he had the singular happiness and privilege of an early Conversion from the Ways, which Original Sin disposes all men unto. One of the principal▪ Instruments which the God of Heaven used in tingeing, and filling the mind of this chosen Vessel, with good principles, was that Venerable Thomas Hook whose Name in the Churches of the Lord Jesus, is, As an Ointment poured for thy even that Hooker, of whom worthy Master Fuller could write, As Latimer would not stick it say, Saint Belney, so neither I to say, Saint Hooker• that Hooker, who having Angled many scores of Souls into the Kingdom of Heaven, at last laid ⟨p. 11⟩his Bones in our New-England; it was an acquaintance with him, that contributed more than a little to the Accomplishment of our Elisha, for that work unto which the most High designed him. His liberal Education, having now the Addition of Religion, to direct it, and improve it, it gave such a Bias to his young Soul, as quickly discovered it self in very signal instances. His first Appearance in the world after his Education in the University, was in the too difficult and unthankful but very necessary Employment of a School-master, which Employment he discharged with a good fidelity. And as this first Essay of his Improvement was no more Disgrace unto him, than it was unto the famous Hieron, Whitaker, Vines, and others, that they thus began to be serviceable; so it rather prepared him, for the further service, which his mind was now set upon. He was of worthy Mr. Thomas Wilson's mind, that the calling of a Minister was the only one wherein a man might be more serviceable to the Church of God, than in that of a School-master. Wherefore having Dedicated himself unto God betimes, he could not Reconcile himself to any lesser way of Serving his Creator and Redeemer, than the Sacred Ministry of the Gospel; but, alas, where should he have Opportunities for the Exercising of it? The Laudian, Grotian, and Arminian Faction in the Church-of-England, in the prosecution of their Grand plot, for the reducing of England