The triumphs of the reformed religion, in America. The life of the renowned John…

¶The Natives of the Country now Possessed by the New-Englanders, had been forlorn and wretched Heathen ever since their first herding here; and tho we know not When or How those Indians first became Inhabitants of this mighty Continent, yet we may guess that probably, the D•vel decoyed those miserable Salvages hither, in hopes that the Gospel of the Lord Jesus would never come here to destroy or disturb his Absolute E•p•• over them. But our Eliot was in such all terms with the Devil, as to alarm him with founding the Silver-Trumpets of Heaven in his Territories, and make some Noble and Zealous Attempts towards outing him of his Ancient possessions here. Just before the first Arrival of the English in these parts, a prodigious Mortality had swept away vast Numbers of the poor Indians; and those Pagans who being told by a Shipwrecked Frenchman which did in their hands, that God […] them, and introduce a more […] and worthy people into their plate, blasphemously reph•j, That God could not kill them; were […] with such a raging and wasting […], as left the very earth covered with their Carcasses. Nevertheless, there were I think, Twenty several Nations (if I may call them so) of Indians upon that spot of ground, ⟨p. 75⟩which fell under the Influence of our Three Uni•ta Colonies; and our Eliot was willing to rescue as many of them as he could, from that old usurping Land-Lord of America, who is by the wrath of God, the Prince of this world.

¶The Natives of the Countrey now Possessed by the New-Englanders, had been forlorn and wretched Heathen ever since their first herding here; and tho we know not When or How those Indians first became Inhabitants of this mighty Continent, yet we may guess that probably, the D•vel decoy'd those miserable Salvages hither, in hopes that the Gospel of the Lord Jesus would never come here to destroy or disturb his Absolute E•p•• over them. But our Eliot was in such all terms with the Divel, as to alarm him with founding the Silver-Trumpets of Heaven in his Territories, and make some Noble and Zealous Attempts towards outing him of his Ancient possessions here. Just before the first Arrival of the English in these parts, a prodigious Mortality had swept away vast Numbers of the poor Indians; and those Pagans who being told by a Shipwracked Frenchman which did in their hands, that God them, and introduce a more and worthy people into their plate, blasphemously rephj, That God could not kill them; were with such a raging and wasting , as left the very earth covered with their Carcases. Nevertheless, there were I think, Twenty several Nations (if I may call them so) of Indians upon that spot of ground,