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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.
My Reader shall have a Touch or two, from a Manuscript of his, which I have in my hands, against (as he calls it) The violent and insuperable Lust of Long Hair. He thus argues.
'Tis a sin for a man to do that whereof he hath cause to be ashamed, Pro. 14. 34. Rom. 6. 21. But it is a shame for a man to wear long hair, 1 Cor. 11. 14. Therefore 'tis a Sin. Obj. It was then so; but now 'tis a fashion and glory to do otherwise. Ans. Nature is the same now as then; Unchangeable. It speaks as loud now as it did then; only our Ears are so covered with Locks, that we cannot hear it! Again, Long Hair on the Head, & No Hair on the Face, is the Habit of a Woman, 1 Cor. 11. 16. But it is a sinful Abomination for a Man to wear the Habit of a Woman, Deut. 22 5. ⟨p. 36⟩Therefore 'tis a sinful Abomination, for a man to wear long Hair on his Head, and no Hair on his Face.
With these, and many other such persuasions did he endeavour to obviate the Luxury, which he saw the times degenerating apace into; and he added hereunto his own Example, as a continual and effectual Sermon against what he thought was to be, condemned in the world.
With these, and many other such perswasions did he endeavour to obviate the Luxury, which he saw the times degenerating apace into; and he added hereunto his own Example, as a continual and effectual Sermon against what he thought was to be, condemned in the world.