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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'll tire my Reader with no more of this wretched stuff. But le•t him understand that the proselyted Indians of New-England have been Instructed at a more Noble Rate; we have helped them to the sincere milk of the word; we have given them the whole Bible in their own Language; we have laid before them such a Creed as the primitive Believers had, with such Explications as we embark our own Souls upon the Assurance of▪ And God has blessed our education of these poor creatures in such a measure, that they can Pray and Preach to better edification (give me leave to say it) than multitudes of the Romish Clergymen. We could have Baptised many Troops of Indians, if we ⟨p. 128⟩would have used no other measures with […] than the Roman-Catholics did upon theirs at Maryland, Where they Baptized a great crew of Indians, in some New shirts, bestowed upon them to encourage them thereunto; but he Indians in a week or two, not knowing how to wash their shirts, when they were grown foul, came and made a motion, that the Roman Catholics would give more shirts to them, or else they would Renounce their Baptism. No, 'tis a Through-paced Christianity without which we have not imagined our Indians Christianized.
I'l tire my Reader with no more of this wretched stuff. But le•t him understand that the proselyted Indians of New-England have been Instructed at a more Noble Rate; we have helped them to the sincere milk of the word; we have given them the whole Bible in their own Language; we have laid before them such a Creed as the primitive Beleevers had, with such Explications as we embark our own Souls upon the Assurance of▪ And God has blessed our education of these poor creatures in such a measure, that they can Pray and Preach to better edification (give me leave to say it) than multitudes of the Romish Clergymen. We could have Baptised many Troops of Indians, if we ⟨p. 128⟩would have used no other measures with 〈…〉 than the Roman-Catholicks did upon theirs at Maryland, Where they Baptized a great crue of Indians, in some New shirts, bestow'd upon them to encourage them thereunto; but he Indians in a week or two, not knowing how to wash their shirts, when they were grown foul, came and made a motion, that the Roman Catholicks would give more shirts to them, or else they would Renounce their Baptism. No, 'tis a Through-paced Christianity without which we have not imagined our Indians Christianized.