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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 Exemplary Mortification.
Thus did Eliot endeavour to live unto God; but how much at the same time did he dye unto all the world?
THus did Eliot endeavour to live unto God; but how much at the same time did he dye unto all the world?
'Twere impossible to finish the lively Picture of this pious and holy Eliot, without some touches upon that Mortification, which accompanied him all his days; for never did I see a person more mortified unto all the pleasures of this Life, or more unwilling to moult the wings of an Heaven born Soul, in the dirty puddles of carnal and sensual Delights. We are all of us compounded of those two things, the Man, and, the Beast; but so powerful was, The Man, in this holy person, that it kept, The Beast ever tied with a short Tender and suppressed the irregular Calcurations of it. He became so mailed unto the Cross of the Lord Jesus Christ, that the Grandeurs of this world were unto him just what they would be to a dying man; & he maintained an almost unparalleled indifferency towards all the pomps, which Mankind is too generally flattered and enchanted with.
'Twere impossible to finish the lively Picture of this pious and holy Eliot, without some touches upon that Mortification, which accompany'd him all his days; for never did I see a person more mortify'd unto all the pleasures of this Life, or more unwilling to moult the wings of an Heaven born Soul, in the dirty puddles of carnal and sensual Delights. We are all of us compounded of those two things, the Man, and, the Beast; but so powerful was, The Man, in this holy person, that it kept, The Beast ever ty'd with a short Tender and suppressed the irregular Calcurations of it. He became so mailed unto the Cross of the Lord Jesus Christ, that the Grandeurs of this world were unto him just what they would be to a dying man; & he maintained an almost unparallel'd indifferency towards all the pomps, which Mankind is too generally flattered and enchanted with.