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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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'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 k•ep 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.
I'll tire my Reader with no more of this wretched stuff. But let him understand that the proselyted indians of New-England hae been Instructed at a more Noble Rate; we have helped them to the sincere milk of the word; we have given them the whole Bible in their own Language; we have laid before them such a Cree as the primitive Believers had, with such Explications as we embark our own Souls upon the Assurance of. And God ha blessed our education of these poor creatures in such a measure, that they can Pray and Preach to btter edification (give me leave to say it) than multitudes of the Romish Clergymen. We could have Baptised many Troops of Indians, if we