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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. ; [Two lines from Luke]
Boston: printed by Benjamin Harris for Joseph Brunning i.e, 1691
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The exemplary Charity of this excellent person in this important Affair, will not be seen ⟨p. 78⟩its due Lustre, unless we make some Reflection upon several circumstances which he beheld these forlorn Indians in. Know then, that these doleful Creatures are the veriest Ruins of Mankind, which are to be found any where upon the face of the Earth. No such Estates are to be expected among them, as have been the […] which the pretended Converters in other Countries have snapped at. One might see among them, what an hard master the Devil is, to the most devoted of his Vassals! These abject Creatures, •live in a Country full of Mines; we have already made entrance upon our Iron; and in the very surface of the ground among us, there lies C•per enough to supply all this world; besides other Mines hereafter to be exposed; but our shiftless Indians were never Owners of so much as a Knife, till we come among them; their name for a• English-in••, was a Knife man; Stone was instead of Metal for their tools; and for their C••ns, they have only […] B••ads with Holes in them to string them upon a bracelet, whereof s•me are […]; and of these there go six for a penny; some are black or […]; and of these go three for a penny; this Wampum, as the call it, is made of the Shell-fish, which lies upon the Sea-Coast continually.
The exemplary Charity of this excellent person in this important Affair, will not be seen ⟨p. 78⟩its due Lustre, unless we make some Reflection upon several circumstances which he beheld these forlorn Indians in. Know then, that these doleful Creatures are the veriest Ruines of Mankind, which are to be found any where upon the face of the Earth. No such Estates are to be expected among them, as have been the 〈…〉 which the pretended Converters in other Countries have snapped at. One might see among them, what an hard master the Devil is, to the most devoted of his Vassals! These abject Creatures, live in a Country full of Mines; we have already made entrance upon our Iron; and in the very surface of the ground among us, there lies Cper enough to supply all this world; besides other Mines hereafter to be exposed; but our shiftless Indians were never Owners of so much as a Knife, till we come among them; their name for a English-in, was a Knife man; Stone was instead of Metal for their tools; and for their Cns, they have only Bads with Holes in them to string them upon a bracelet, whereof sme are ; and of these there go six for a penny; some are black or ; and of these go three for a penny; this Wampam, as the call it, is made of the Shell-fish, which lies upon the Sea-Coast continually.