Or, Eliot as an Evangelist.

Part III. Or, Eliot as an Evangelist.

The Titles of a Christian and of a Minister, have rendered our Eliot considerable; but there is one memorable Title more, by which he has been signalized unto us. An honourable person did once in Print put the Name of an Evangelist upon him; whereupon in a Letter of his to that person afterwards Printed, his Expressions were, There is a Redundancy, where you put the Title of Evangelist upon me; I beseech you to suppress all such thing• let us do and speak and carry all things with Humility; it is the Lord who hath done what is done; and it is most becoming the Spirit of Jesus Christ to lift up him, and say ourselves low; I wish that word could be obliterated. My Reader sees what a caution Mr. Eliot long-since entered against our giving him the Title of an Evangelist; but his Death has now made it safe, as his Life had long made it just, for us to acknowledge him with such a Title. I know not whether that of an Evangelist, or one separated for the employment of Preaching the Gospel in such places where no ⟨p. 74⟩Churches have hitherto been gathered, be not an Office that should be continued in our days; but this I know, that our Eliot very notably did the Service and Business of such an Officer.

THe Titles of a Christian and of a Minister, have rendred our Eliot considerable; but there is one memorable Title more, by which he has been signalized unto us. An honourable person did once in Print put the Name of an Evangelist upon him; whereupon in a Letter of his to that person afterwards Printed, his Expressions were, There is a Redundancy, where you put the Title of Evangelist upon me; I beseech you to suppress all such thing• let us do and speak and carry all things with Humility; it is the Lord who hath done what is done; and it is most becoming the Spirit of Jesus Christ to lift up him, and say ourselves low; I wish that word could be obliterated. My Reader sees what a caution Mr. Eliot long-since entred against our giving him the Title of an Evangelist; but his Death has now made it safe, as his Life had long made it just, for us to acknowledge him with such a Title. I know not whether that of an Evangelist, or one separated for the employment of Preaching the Gospel in such places where no