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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.
'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.
The Lust of the flesh he could not reconcile ⟨p. 30⟩himself to the least pampering or indulging of but he persecuted it when a continual […] by being upon higher principles than Fully was acquainted withal, of his mind, Non est d•gnus […] qui unum dwin •otum volt •sse in […] genere voluptats. The Sleep that he allow himself cheated him not of his Morning-hours but he reckoned the Morning no less a friend us to the Graces, than unto the Mases. He would call upon Students, I pray look to it that you morning-Birds! and for many more than a scorn of years before he dyed, he removed his Lodging into his Study, on purpose that being there alone, he might enjoy his early-Mornings, without giving the disturbance of the least noise […] any of his Friends, whose Affections to him else might have been ready to have called, Master spare thy self. The Meat upon which he live was a Cibus simplex, an homely but an wholesome Diet. Rich Varieties, costly Viands, and p nant Sauces, came not upon his own Table, […] when he sound them on other mens, he rare tasted of them. One Dish and a plain one, […] his Dinner; and when invited unto a Feast, have seen him sit Magnifying of God, for […] Plenty which His people in this Wilderness we within a few years arisen to; but not […] than a Bit or two of all the Dainties taken into his own mouth all the while. And for a Supper he had learned of his loved and blessed Patro old Mr. Cotton, either wholly to omit it, or […]