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]
- Title
- 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]
- Author
- Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
- Publication
- Boston, :: Printed by Benjamin Harris, & John Allen, for Joseph Brunning [i.e., Browning] at the corner of the Prison-Lane.,
- 1691.
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- Subject terms
- Eliot, John, 1604-1690.
- Indians of North America -- New England.
- Indians of North America -- Missions.
- Massachuset Indians.
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"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]." In the digital collection Evans Early American Imprint Collection. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/N00446.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024.
Contents
- title page
- 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.
- The LIFE of the Renowned JOHN ELIOT
- The Introduction.
- PRAELIMINARY I. The Birth, Age, and Family of Mr. ELIOT.
- Praeliminary II.
- Part I. Dr. Eliot as a CHRISTIAN.
- Part II. Or, Eliot, As a MINISTER.
- Part III. Or, Eliot as an Evangelist.
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A LETTER
Concerning the Success of the Gospel, amongst the
INDIANS inNew-England. - (a) The Success of the Gospel in the EAST INDIES
- (b) Mr. Eliot's way of opening the Mysteries of the Gospel to our INDIANS.
- (c) His Translating the Bible, and other Books of Piety into the INDIAN TONGUE.
- (d) His Gathering of a Church at NATICK.
- (e) The Hindrances and Obstructions, that the DEVIL. gave unto HIM.
- (f) The Indian-Churches at Mashippaug, and elsewhere.
- (g) Of Mr. Eliot's Fellow-labourers in the INDIAN-WORK.
- (h) The sacred and solemn Exercises perform|ed in the Indian Congregations.
- (I) A Comparison between what the New-En|glanders have done for the Conversion of the Indians, and what has been done elsewhere by the Roman Catholicks.
- The CONCLUSION, Or, ELIOT Expiring.
- ERRATA