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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.
May the several Plantations, that live upon the Labours of their Negroes, no more be guilty of such a prodigious wickedness, as to deride, neglect, and oppose all due means of bringing ⟨p. 149⟩their poor Negroes unto our Lord; but may the Masters of whom God will one day require the Souls of the Slaves committed unto them, see to it, that like Abraham, they have Catechised Servants; and not imagine that the Almighty God made so many thousands of Reasonable creatures for nothing, but only to serve the Lusts of Epicures, or the gains of Mammonists; lest the God of Heaven out of mere Pity, if not Justice, unth those unhappy Blacks, be provoked unto a vengeance which may not without Horror be thought upon. Lord, when shall we see Ethiopians read thy Scriptures with Understanding!
May the several Plantations, that live upon the Labours of their Negroes, no more be guilty of such a prodigious wickedness, as to deride, neglect, and oppose all due means of bringing ⟨p. 149⟩their poor Negroes unto our Lord; but may the Masters of whom God will one day require the Souls of the Slaves committed unto them, see to it, that like Abraham, they have Catechisêd Servants; and not imagine that the Almighty God made so many thousands of Reasonable creatures for nothing, but only to serve the Lusts of Epicures, or the gains of Mammonists; lest the God of Heaven out of meer Pity, if not Justice, unth those unhappy Blacks, be provoked unto a vengeance which may not without Horrour be thought upon. Lord, when shall we see Ethiopians read thy Scriptures with Understanding!
May the English Nation do what may be done, that the Welsh may not be destroyed for the lack of Knowledge, lest our indisposition to do for their Souls, bring upon us all those Judgment of Heaven, which Gildas their Country-man; […] them, that they suffered for their disregards unto […] may the •esandous Massa•••• of the English by the […] awaken the English to consider, whether they have done enough to reclaim the ish, from the Popish Bigotries and Abominations, with which they have been Intoxicated.