And the labours of Robert Junius forty years since amongst the East-Indians in Formosa, were wonderfully successful, For (as Caspar Si••llius Pastor of the Church in Daventry in Holland writing the History of that affair, doth relate) there were no less then five thousand & nine hundred Indians that became professedly subject to the Gospel, & ⟨image ?⟩were all, together with their children, […] Junius having learned the Indian Language, and being a Man of exemplary Piety in his conversation, and one also that excelled in Wisdom and Spiritual Abilities, God was with him, and made him an happy Instrument of winning Souls. He translated some part of the Scripture, and wrote Catechisms, and other profitable Books in their Language. He caused Schools to be erected among those blind Barbarians, so as that six hundred of them were able to read, and write, and about fifty who excelled in knowledge, and were of approved godliness, became Instructors of others in the Principles of the true Christian Religion: yea in three and twenty Towns, there were Indian Christian Churches Planted. And learned Men were sent out of Holland, in order to a further propagation of the interest of the Gospel in those remote parts of the World. Also Justus Heurnius, who was at first a Physician, being inflamed with a singular zeal after Gods glory, and the Salvation of Souls of men, left his practising in Medicinal Cures, and betook himself wholly to the study of Divinity; after which •e engaged in a Voyage towards the East-Indians, designing their Conversion, and having learned the• Language, spent fourteen years amongst them: and as the great Vo•tius (in his Disputation, dé vocatione Gentium ) testifieth, was instrumental to the Conversion of many of those Indians, so as to erect Churches of them in divers places, yea, and took care for the learned Education of divers young men, even amongst the Indians themselves, so as that they were able to instruct the several Churches, which by the blessing of God upon his Labours had been lately formed. It is great pity then, that we in New-England, who do not come behind others in Profession, and Pretences to Religion, should fall short in real endeavours, for the promotion and propagation of Religion, & Christianity amongst those that have been for ages that are past without God, and without Christ, and Strangers to the Common-wealth of Israel.
And the labours of Robert Junius forty years since amongst the East-Indians in Formosa, were wonderfully succesfull, For (as Caspar Si••llius Pastor of the Church in Daventry in Holland writing the History of that affair, doth relate) there were no less then five thousand & nine hundred Indians that became prosessedly subject to the Gospel, & ⟨image ?⟩were all, together with their children, 〈…〉 Junius having learned the Indian Language, and being a Man of exempla•y Piety in his conversation, and one also that excelled in Wisdome and Spiritual Abilities, God was with him, and made him an happy Instrument of winning Souls. He translated some part of the Scripture, and wrote Catechismes, and other profitable Books in their Language. He caused Schools to be erected among those blind Bar•arians, so as that six hundred of them were able to read, and write, and about fifty who excelled in knowledge, and were of approved godliness, became Instructors of others in the Principles of the true Christian Religion: yea in three and twenty Towns, there were Indian Christian Churches Planted. And learned Men were sent out of Holland, in order to a further propagation of the interest of the Gospel in those remote parts of the World. Also Justus Heurnius, who was at first a Physitian, being inflamed with a singular zeal after Gods glory, and the Salvation of Souls of men, left his practising in Medecinal Cures, and betook himself wholy to the study of Divinity; after which •e engaged in a Voyage towards the East-Indians, designing their Conversion, and having learned the• Language, spent fourteen years amongst them: and as the great Vo•tius (in his Disputation, dé vocatione Gentium ) testifieth, was instrumental to the Conversion of many of those Indians, so as to erect Churches of them in divers places, yea, and took care for the learned Education of divers youngmen, even amongst the Indians themselves, so as that they were able to instruct the several Churches, which by the blessing of God upon his Labours had been lately formed. It is great pity then, that we in New-England, who do not come behind others in Profession, and Pretences to Religion, should fall short in real endeavours, for the promotion and propagation of Religion, & Christianity amongst those that have been for ages that are past without God, and without Christ, and Strangers to the Common-wealth of Israel.
