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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.
And as for the •ytae of Life, the Life of it was most exemplarily extinguished in him. The Humility of his Heart made him, Higher by the Head than the rest of the people. His Habit and Spirit were both such as declared him to be among the Lowly, whom God has most Reflects unto. His Apparel was without any Ornament, except that of Humility, which the Apostle Elegantly compares to a knot of Comely Ribbons in the Text where he bids us to be clothed, with it; any other slanting Ribbons on those that came in his way he would ingeniously animadvert upon; and seeing some Scholars once, he thought, a little too gaudy in their Clothes, Humiliamini, Juvenes, Humiliamini, was his immediate complement unto them. Had you seen him with his Leathern Girdle (for such an one he wo•e) about his Loins, you would almost have thought what Herod feared, That John Baptist ⟨p. 34⟩was come to life again. In short, he was in all Regards, A […] indeed; unless in this one that long Hair was always very loathsome […] him; he was an acute Ramist, but yet he professed himself a lover of a […] Doubtless it may be lawful for us to accommodate the length of our Hair unto the modest Customs which vary in the Churches of God; and it may be lawful for them that have not enough of their own Hair for their own Health, to supply themselves according to the sober modes of the places where they live. But the Apostle tell us, Nature teaches us, that it a man have long hair, 'tis a shame to him […] where, by Nature Can be meant, no other than, the difference of Sex as the word else-where is used.
And as for the •ytae of Life, the Life of it was most exemplarily extinguish'd in him. The Humility of his Heart made him, Higher by the Head than the rest of the people. His Habit and Spirit were both such as declared him to be among the Lowly, whom God has most Ref•ects unto. His Apparel was without any Ornament, except that of Humility, which the Apostle Elegantly compares to a knot of Comely Ribbons in the Text where he bids us to be cloathed, with it; any other slanting Ribbons on those that came in his way he would ingeniously animadvert upon; and seeing some Scholars once, he thought, a little too gaudy in their Cloaths, Humiliamini, Juvenes, Humiliamini, was his immediate complement unto them. Had you seen him with his Leathern Girdle (for such an one he woe) about his Loins, you would almost have thought what Herod fear'd, That John Baptist