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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.
His Conferences were like those which Ter• tuhian affirms to have been common among the Saints in his Days, Ut qui sciret Dominum audire, as knowing that the Ear of God was open to them all; and he managed his Rudder so as to manifest that he was bound Heaven-ward, i• his whole Communication. He had a particular art, at Spiritualizing of Earthly Objects, & Raising of high thoughts from very mean things As, once going with some feebleness and weariness up the Hill on which his Meeting house now stands, he said unto the person that led him, This is very like the may to Heaven, 'tis up Hill! the Lord by his Grace fetch us up! and instantly spring a Bush near him, he as nimbly added, And truly there are Thorns and Briars […] the may […]! Which instance I would not have singled out from the many thousands of his Occasional Reflections, but only that I might suggest unto the good people of Roxbury, something for them to think upon, when they are going up to the House of the Lord. It is enough that as the Friend of the famous Ursin could profess that he never went unto him without coming away, aut d•ctior aut melior, either the wiser or the better from him; so, 'tis an acknowledgement which more than one Friend of […] Eliot's has made concerning him, I was new with him, but I got, or might have got some go•• from him.
His Conferences were like those which Ter• tuhian affirms to have been common among the Saints in his Days, Ut qui sciret Dominum audire, as knowing that the Ear of God was open to them all; and he managed his Rudder so as to manifest that he was bound Heaven-ward, i• his whole Communication. He had a particular art, at Spiritualizing of Earthly Objects, & Raising of high thoughts from very mean things As, once going with some feebleness and weariness up the Hill on which his Meeting house now stands, he said unto the person that led him, This is very like the may to Heaven, 'tis up Hill! the Lord by his Grace fetch us up! and instantly spring a Bush near him, he as nimbly added, And truly there are Thorns and Briars 〈…〉 the may 〈…〉! Which instance I would not have singled out from the many thousands of his Occasional Reflections, but only that I might suggest unto the good people of Roxbury, something for them to think upon, when they are going up to the House of the Lord. It is enough that as the Friend of the famous Ursin could profess that he never went unto him without coming away, aut dctior aut melior, either the wiser or the better from him; so, 'tis an acknowledgment which more than one Friend of Eliot's has made concerning him, I was new with him, but I got, or might have got some go from him.