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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.
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, ⟨p. 128⟩That whereas He Rose from the Dead, & went up to the Heavens, all that would Recommend themselves unto His Favour, must Revenge His Quarrel upon the English, as far as they can. He asked the Minister, whether these Things were so; and prayed the Minister to Instruct him in the True Christian Religion. The Minister considering, that the Humour and Manner of the Indians, was to have their Discourses managed, with much of Similitude in them, Looked about for some Agreeable object, from whence he might with apt Resemblances Convey the Ideas of Truth unto the minds of Salvages: and he thought, none would be more Agreeable to them, than a Tankard of Drink, which happened then to be standing on the Table. So he proceeded in this Method with 'em.