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love_n	child_n	good_a	love_v	6,316	5	6.3785	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50170	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 excellant minister among the English, but also as a memorable evangelist amoung 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.	Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.; Mather, Increase, 1639-1723. De successu Evangelii apud Indos in Nova-Anglia epistola. English.	1691 (1691)	Wing M1163; ESTC W479490	74,580	162

Habitations by many scores got thither before him of such as his Charity had been liberal unto But besides these more Substantial Expressions of his Charity hee made the Odours of that Grace yet more fragrant unto all that were about him by that Pittifulness and that Peaceableness which rendred him yet further Amiable If any of his Neighbourhood were in distress he was like a Brother born for their Adversity he would visit them and comfort them with a most Fraternal Sympathy yea 't is not easiy to recount how many whole dayes of Prayer with Fasting he has got his Neighbours to keep with him on the behalf of those whose Calamities he found himself touched withal It was an extreme Satisfaction to him that his Wife had attained unto a considerable skill in Physick and Chyrurgery which enabled her to dispense many safe good and useful Medicines unto the Poor that had occasion for them and some hundreds of sick weak and maimed people owed praises to God for the Benefit which therein they freely received of her The good Gentleman her Husband would still be casting Oyl into the Flame of that Charity wherein she was of her own accord abundantly forward thus to be doing of good unto all and he would urge her to be serviceable unto the worst Enemies that he had in the world Never had any man fewer Enemies than he But once having delivered something in his Ministry which displeased one of his Hearers the man d●d passionately abuse him for it and this both with Speeches and with Writings that reviled him Yet it happening not long after that this man gave himself a very dangerous Wound Mr. Eliot immediately sends his Wife to cure him who did accordingly When the man was well he came to thank her but she took no Rewards and this Good man made him stay and eat with him taking no notice of all the Calumnies with which he had loaded him but by this Carriage he strangely mollifyed and conquered the Stomach of his Reviler He was also a great Enemy to all Contention would ring a loud Courseu-Bell wherever he saw the Fires of Animosity When he heard any Ministers complain that such and such in their Flocks were too difficult for them the strain of his Answer still was Brother Compass them and Brother Learn the meaning of those three little Words Bear Forbear Forgive Yea his Inclinations for Peace indeed sometimes almost made him to sacrifice Right it self When there was la●d before an Assembly of Ministers a b●ndle of Papers which con ained certain mat●ers of Difference and Contention between some people which our Elio● thought should rather unite with an Amnesty upon all their former Quarrels he with some Imitation of what Constantine did up●n the l●ke occasi●n hastily threw the papers in●o the Fire bef●re them all and with a zeal f●r peace as h●● as that F●●● sa●d immediately B●eth●en wonder not at what I have done I did it on my knees this m●rning before I came among you Such an ex●●ss if it were one fl●w●d from his Charitab●e Inc●ina ions ●o be sound among those Peace-m●●ers when by following the Exemple of that Man who is our Peace come to be called The children of God Very worth ly migh● he be called an Ire●ae●s as being all for Peace and the Commendation which Epiphanius gives unto the Ancient of that Name did belong unto our Eliot he was a most bl●ss●d and a most holy man He d sliked all sorts of B●●very but yet with an ingenious Note upon the Greek word in Col. ● 15 he propounded That peace might brave it among us In short where-ever he came it was like another old John with solemn and earnest perswasives to love and when he could say little else he would give that Charge My Children love one another Finally 't was his Charity which disposed him to continual Apprecations for and Benedictions on those that he met withal he had an Heart full of good Wishes and a Mouth full of kind Blessings for them And he often made his Expressions very wittily agreeable to the circumstances which he saw the persons in Sometimes when he came into a Family he would call for all the young people in it that so he might very Distinctly lay his holy hands upon every one of them and bespeak the mercies of Heaven for them all 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 Lo e 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 Wggons to fetch this old Jacob away he would have gone without the least Reluctancies Labouring once under a Feavour and Ague a Visi●ant asked him How he did and he Reply'd Very well but anon I expect a paroxysm Sa●d the Visi●ant Sir fear not but unto that he answered Fear No no I been't afraid I thank God I been t afraid to Dy Dying would not have been any more to him than Sleeping to a weary man And another Excellency which accompanied this Courage and Comfort in him was A wonderful Resignation to the Will of God in all Events There were sore Afflictions that sometimes befel 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 l ke another Abraham with such a sacred ind●fferency as made all the Spectators to say 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 be 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-set that little one which had no small Concerns because Eliot's in the bottom of it he immediately sunk without any expectation of ever going to Heaven a●y other way and when he imagined that he had but one breath more to draw in the world it was this The will of the Lord be done but it was the will of the Lord that he should survive the danger for 〈◊〉 was rescued by the help that was then at hand and he that had long been like Moses in eve●● thing else was now dr●wn out of the Wate● 〈◊〉 Which gives me oppor●unity to mention or Remarkable that had some Relation hereunto This Accident happened in the Time of our Indian Wars when some furious Engl●sh People that clamoured for the ex●irpation of the P●aying Indians