A50170:189
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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Nor have we been acted with a Roman-Catholic Avarice and Falsity and Cruelty in prosecuting of our conversions; 'tis the Spirit of an ELIOT, that has all along directed us. 'Tis a Specimen of the Popish Avarice that their Missionaries are very rarely employed but where Beaver and Silver and vast Riches are to be thereby gained; their Ministry is but a fort of Engine, to enrich Europeans with the Treasures of the Indies; thus one escaped from Captivity among the Spaniards, told me, that the Spanish Friars had carried their Gospel into the spacious Country of California, but finding the Indians there to be extremely poor, they quickly gave over the work, because forsooth S•••• poor Nation was not worth Conve•ting. Whereas the New-Englanders could expect nothing from their Indians. We are to Feed them and •••ath them, rather than receive any thing ⟨p. 129⟩from them, when we bring them home to God. Again, the popish Falsi•y disposes them to so much Legerdemain in their Applications as is very disagreeable to the Spirit and Progress of the Gospel. My Worthy Friend, Myn•eer Daily, who has been sedulous and successful in his Ministry among the Maqua'•, assures me, that a French predicator, having been attempting to bring over those Indians unto the Interest (not of our Saviour, so much as) of Canada, at last, for a cure of their Infidelity, told them, he would give them a sign of God's Displeasure at them for it; The Sun should such a day be put out. This terrified them at a sad rate, and with great admiration and expectation, they told the Dutch of what was to come to pass; the Dutch replied This was no more than eve•y Child among them could foretell; they all knew there would then be an Eclipse of the Sun; but (said they) speak to Monsieur, that he would get the Sun extinguished a day before, or a day after what he spoke of, and if he can do that, bel•e•e him. When the Indians thus understood what a Trick the Frenchman would have put upon them, they became irreconcilably prejudiced, against all his offers; nor have the French been since able to gain much upon that considerable people. The New-Englanders have used no such Stratagems and Knveries; 'tis the pure light of truth, which is all that has been used for the affecting of the rude people, whom 'twas easy to have