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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
Dedication: To the Right Honourable PHILIP Lord WHARTON. A no less Noble than Aged PATRON of LEARNI…
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.
To the Right Honourable PHILIP Lord WHARTON. A no less Noble than Aged PATRON of LEARNING and VIRTUE; And a Favourite of that Great KING Whose Throne is in the Heavens, and whose Kingdom Ruleth over all.
May it please Your Lordship;
IF it be considered; that some Evangelical and Apostolical Histories of the New-Testament, were by the Direct on of the Holy Spirit Himself, Dedicated unto a Person of Quality, and that the Noble Person Addressed with One such Dedication, entertained it with Resentments that encouraged his dear Luc••lius to make a Second, the world will be satisfied that I do a thing but Reasonable and Agreeable, when, unto a Narrative of many Evangelical and Apostolical Affairs, I presume to prefix the Name of one so Excellent for Love to God, as Your Lordship is known to be: and One ⟨image ?⟩upon this account only, an Unmeet subject for the praises of the obscure pen which now writes, that […] Vitup••••? I do not, I dare not, so far Intrude upon Your Honour, as to ask Your Patronage unto all the New-English Principles & Practices, which are found in the Character of our Celebrated ELIOT; for, as the Distance of a Thousand Leagues, has made it impossible for and to attend the (usual) Orders and Manners of asking first Your Allowance for what I have openly Entitled you unto; so, the Renowned ELIOT is gone beyond any occasions for the greatest Humane Patronage.