A50170:122
The triumphs of the reformed religion in America the life of the renowned John…
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.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.
Boston: printed by Benjamin Harris and John Allen for Joseph Brunning, 1691
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The exemplary Charity of this excellent person in this important Affair, will not be seen in ⟨image 44⟩its due Lustre, unless we make some Reflections upon several circumstances which he behold these forlorn Indians in. Know then, that these doleful Creatures are the veriest Ruins of Mankind, which are to be found any where upon the face of the Earth. No such Estates are to be expected among them, as have been the B•••s which the pretended Converters in other Countries ha•e snapped at. One might see among them, what an hard master the Devil is, to the most devoted of his Vassals! These abject Creatures, live in a Country full of Mines; we have already made entrance upon out Iron; and in the very surface of the ground among us, there lies Coper enough to suppl• all this world; besides other Mines hereafter to be exposed; but our shiftless Indians were never Owners of so much as a Knife, till we come among them; their name for an English man, was a Knife man; Stone was instead of Metal for their tools; and for their Coins, they have only little Beads with Holes in them to string them upon a bracelet, whereof some are white; and of these there go six for a penny; some are black or blew; and of these, go three for a penny; this Wampum, as they call it, is made of the Shell-fish, which lies upon the Sea-Coast continually.
The exemplary Charity of this excellent person in this important Affair, will not be seen in ⟨image 44⟩its due Lustre, unless we make some Reflections upon several circumstances which he behold these forlorn Indians in. Know then, that these doleful Creatures are the veriest Ruines of Mankind, vvhich are to be found any vvhere upon the face of the Earth. No such Estates are to be expected among them, as have been the B•••s which the pretended Converters in other Countries ha•e snapped at. One might see among them, what an hard master the Devil is, to the most devoted of his Vassals! These abject Creatures, live in a Country full of Mines; we have already made entrance upon out Iron; and in the very surface of the ground among us, there lies Coper enough to suppl all this world; besides other Mines hereafter to be exposed; but our shiftless Indians were never Owners of so much as a Knife, till we come among them; their name for an English man, was a Knife man; Stone was instead of Metal for their tools; and for their Coins, they have only little Beads with Holes in them to string them upon a bracelet, whereof some are white; and of these there go six for a penny; some are black or blew; and of these, go three for a penny; this Wampam, as they call it, is made of the Shell-fish, which lies upon the Sea-Coast continually.