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PART II. Or, Eliot as a Minister.
ARTICLE I. His Ministerial Accomplishments.
THE Grace of God, which we have seen so Illustriously Endowing and Adorning of our Eliot, as well qualifi'd him for, as dispos'd him to the Employment wherein he spent about Six Decads of his Years; which was, The Service of the Lord Jesus Christ, in the Ministry of the Gospel. This was the Work to which he appli'd himself; and he undertook it, I believe, with as right Thoughts of it, and as good Ends in it, as ever any Man in our days was acted with. He look'd upon the Conduct of a Church, as a thing no less Dangerous than Important, and attended with so many Dif∣ficulties, Temptations, and Humiliations, as that nothing but a Call from the Son of God, could have encouraged him unto the Susception of it. He saw that Flesh and