The triumphs of the reformed religion, in America. The life of the renowned John…

And another Excellency, which accompanied this Courage and Comfort in him was, A wonderful Resignation to be Will of God, in all Events. There were fore Afflictions that sometimes befell him; especially when he followed some of his hopeful and worthy Sons two or three desirable Preachers of the Gospel, to their Graves. But he sacrificed them, like another Abraham▪ with such a sacred indifferency, as made all the Spectators to […] This could not be done without the Fear of God. Yea he bore all his Trials with an admirable patience, and seemed loth to have any will of his own, that should not by wholly melted and moulded into the Will of his Heavenly Father. Once being in a Boat at Sea a larger Vessel unhappily Over-run and Over […] that […] one which had no small Concern, because Eliot's in the bottom of it; […] without any expectation or ever […] any other way; and when he imagined that he had but one breath more to draw in the world, it was this, The will […] the Lord be done! But it was the will of the ⟨p. 43⟩Lord, that he should survive the danger; for he was rescued by the help that was then at hand, and he that had long been like Moses in every thing else, was now drawn out of the Waters. Which gives me opportunity to mention one Remarkable that had some Relation hereunto. This Accident happened in the Time of our Indian Wars, when some furious English People that clamoured for the ex•rpa•ion of the […] Indians, which were in subjection unto us, as well as the Pagan Indians that were in Hostility against us, vented a very wicked Rage at our holy Eliot, because of his concernment for the Indians; and one profane Monster hearing how narrowly Mr. Eliot escaped from Drowning, 'tis said, he wished this man of God had then been Drowned. But within a few days, that woeful man by a strange Disaster was Drowned in that very place, where Mr. Eliot had received his Deliverance.

And another Excellency, which accompanied this Courage and Comfort in him was, A wonderful Resignation to be Will of God, in all Events. There were fore Afflictions that sometimes befell him; especially when he follow'd some of his hopeful and worthy Sons two or three desirable Preachers of the Gospel, to their Graves. But he sacrificed them, like another Abraham▪ with such a sacred indifferency, as made all the Spectators to This could not be done without the Fear of God. Yea he bore all his Trials with an admirable patience, and seemed loth to have any will of his own, that should not by wholly melted and moulded into the Will of his Heavenly Father. Once being in a Boat at Sea a larger Vessel unhappily Over-run and Over that one which had no small Concern, because Eliot's in the bottom of it; without any expectation or ever any other way; and when he imagined that he had but one breath more to draw in the world, it was this, The will the Lord be done! But it was the will of the