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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.
Article V.
Some Special Attainments, that were the Effects of his Piety, and Charity.
But what was the Effect of this Exemplary Piety, and Charity in our Eliot? It will be no wonder, to my Reader, if I tell him, That this good man walked in the light of Gods Countenance all the day long. I believe he had a continual Assurance of the divine Love, marvellously Sealing, Strengthening, and Refreshing of him, for many lustres of years before he Died; and for this cause, the fear of Death was Extirpated out of his heavenly Soul, more than out of most men alive. Had our blessed Jesus at any time sent his Waggon to fetch this old Jacob away, he would have gone without the least Reluctancies ⟨p. 42⟩Labouring once under a •lavour and […] asked him, How he did? and […] Very well, but […] I expect a paroxysm […] fear not; but unto that he answered, Fear! No, no; I been't afraid, I thank […] I been't afraid to Die! Dying would not have been any more to him, than Sleeping to a wear man.
But what was the Effect of this Exemplary Piety, and Charity in our Eliot? It will be no wonder, to my Reader, if I tell him, That this good man walked in the light of Gods Countenance all the day long. I believe he had a continual Assurance of the divine Love, marvellously Sealing, Strengthning, and Refreshing of him, for many lustres of years before he Dy'd; and for this cause, the fear of Death was Extirpated out of his heavenly Soul, more than out of most men alive. Had our blessed Jesus at any time sent his Wggone to setch this old Jaco• away, he would have gone without the least Reluctantancies ⟨p. 42⟩