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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.
(I) A Comparison between what the New-Englanders have done for the Conversion of the Indians, and what has been done elsewhere by the Roman Catholics.
(I) A Comparison between what the New-Englanders have done for the Conversion of the Indians, and what has been done elsewhere by the Roman Catholicks.
IT is to be confessed, That the Roman Catholics have a Clergy so very Numerous, and so little Encumbered, and are Masters of such prodigious Ecclesiastical Revenues, as renders it very easy for them to exceed the Protestants In their Endeavours to Christianize the Pagan Salvages. Nor would I Reproach, but rather Applaud their Industry in this matter, wishing that we were all touched with an Emulation of it. Nevertheless, while I commend their Industry, they do by their Clamours against the Reformed Churches upon this account, oblige me to tax divers very scandalous things in the Missions which they make propaganda side, throughout the world; and therewithal to compare what has been done by that little Handful of Reformed Churches in this Country, which has in divers Regards Out-done the furthest Efforts of popery.
IT is to be confessed, That the Roman Catholicks have a Clergy so very Numerous, and so little Encumbred, and are Masters of such prodigious Ecclesiastical Revenues, as renders it very easy for them to exceed the Protestants In their Endeavours to Christianize the Pagan Salvages. Nor would I Reproach, but rather Applaud their Industry in this matter, wishing that we were all touched with an Emulation of it. Nevertheless, while I commend their Industry, they do by their Clamours against the Reformed Churches upon this account, oblige me to tax divers very scandalous things in the Missions which they make propropaganda side, throughout the world; and therewithal to compare what has been done by that little Handful of Reformed Churches in this Country, which has in divers Regards Out-done the furthest Efforts of popery.