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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
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It seems, they have not thought this Divinity too Gr•ss for the Barbarians. But I shall mak• no Reflections on it; only add one or two Cases of Conscience, from their Directory,
It seems, they have not thought this Divinity too Gr•ss for the Barbariams. But I shall mak• no Reflections on it; only add one or two Cases of C••science, from their Directory,
'Tis one of their weighty cases, Whether a Christian be bound to pay his Whore her Hire or no? To this Father Bruias answers, Tho he be bound in Justice to do it, yet inasmuch as the Barbarians [and you must suppose ⟨p. 127⟩their Whores to be such!] Use to keep no Faith in such matters, the Christians may choose whether they will keep any too. But Father Pierron with a most profound Learning answers, He is not bound unto it all; inasmuch as no man thinks himself bound to pay a Witch, that has Enchanted him; and this business is pretty much a kin to that. Another of their d fficult Cases, is, Whether an indian stealing an Hatchet from a Dutchman, be bound to make Restitution? And it is very conscientiously determined. That if the Dutchman be one that has used any Trade with other Indians, the Thief is not bound unto any Restitution; for 'tis certain, he gains more by such a Trade than the value of many Hatchets in a year.
'Tis one of their weighty cases, Whether a Christian be bound to pay his Whore her Hire or no? To this Father Bruias answers, Tho he be bound in Justice to do it, yet inasmuch as the Barbarians [and you must suppose ⟨p. 127⟩their Whores to be such!] Ʋse to keep no Faith in such matters, the Christians may choose whether they will kep any too. But Father Pierron with a most profound Learning answers, He is not bound unto it all; inasmuch as no man thinks himself bound to pay a Witch, that has Enchanted him; and this business is pretty much a kin to that. Another of their d fficult Cases, is, Whether an indian stealing an Hatchet from a Dutchman, be bound to make Restitution? And it is very conscientiously determined. That if the Dutchman be one that has used any Trade with other Indians, the Thief is not bound unto any Restitution; for 'tis certain, he gains more by such a Trade than the value of many Hatchets in a year.