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Decennium luctuosum. An history of remarkable occurrences, in the long war, which New-England hath…
Decennium luctuosum. An history of remarkable occurrences, in the long war, which New-England hath had with the Indian savages, from the year, 1688. To the year 1698. / Faithfully composed and improved. ; [One line of quotation in Latin]
printed by B. Green for Samuel Phillips, 1699
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.
ARTICLE. XXII. A Conference with an Indian-Sagamore.
But now Bommaseen is fallen into our Hands, let us have a little Discourse with him.
BUt now Bommaseen is fallen into our Hands, let us have a little Discourse with him.
Behold, Reader, the Troubles, and the Troublers of New-England! That thou mayst a little more Exactly Behold the Spirit of the matter, I'll Recite certain passages, occurring in a Discourse that passed between this Bommaseen (who was one of the Indian Princes, or, Chieftains,) and a Minister of the Gospel, in the year. 1696.
Behold, Reader, the Troubles, and the Troublers of New-England! That thou mayst a little more Exactly Behold the Spirit of the matter, I'l Recite certain passages, occurring in a Discourse that pass'd between this Bommaseen (who was one of the Indian Princes, or, Chieftanes,) and a Minister of the Gospel, in the year. 1696.
Bommaseen, was, with some other Indians, now a Prisoner, in Boston. He desired a Conference with a Minister, of Boston, which was granted him. Bommaseen, with the other Indians assenting and asserting to it, then told the Minister, That he prayed his Instruction in the Christian Religion; inasmuch as he was afraid, that the French, in the Christian Religion, which they taught the Indians, had Abused them. The Minister Enquired of him, What of the Things taught 'em by the French, appeared most Suspicious to 'em? He said The French taught 'em, That the Lord JESUS CHRIST, was of the French Nation; That His Mother, the Virgin Mary, was a French Lady; That they were the English who had Murdered him; and,