The excellency of a public spirit discoursedThe excellency of a publick spirit discoursed

Papists have boasted of their Xaverins, who they say was an instrument of Converting many thousands of the East Indians, for which ⟨p. 82⟩cause the Pope Canonized him: And in their Books they reflect on Protestants, pretending that the like was never done by those whom they call Heretics. But alas we may say of what they have done, as Christ said to the Scribes & Pharisees, Matth. 23.15 You compass Sea and Land to make one Proselyte, and when he is made, you make him two fold more the Child of Hell than your selves. The Jesuits Converts are converted, not to Christ, but to Antichrist: They have taught them to be Idolaters: And have obtruded a false Gospel on them. Xavier has inserted diverse fictitious things concerning Christ and concerning the Apostle Peter, which he procured to be translated into the Persian tongue for the service of the great Mogul. Another Jesuit has added to the Gospel, the Story of the Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin Mary. Thus have they corrupted the word of God with their own Inventions, deluding the miserable Heathen thereby, whom they have made more obstinate in their false belief, than if they were Pagans still. Protestants dare not teach any thing but what is according to the Scripture. And it has pleased God to bless their endeavours with wonderful Success within these few years past, amongst the East Indians. In the Kingdom of Jeffana•a• man, the Lord has prospered the Labours of Five Dutch Ministers, so as that above an hundred and forty thousand of those Indians, have embraced the true Christian Protestant Religion. ⟨p. 83⟩And since that in four years time forty thousand more of them are become Christians, renouncing the Idols whom they and their Fathers worshipped. Moreover, in Amboina there are thirty thousand Souls who have lately subjected themselves to the Lord Jesus Christ, although (which is marvellous) many of them were Mahometans. Of these things I have had certain Advice from a Learned Professor (Dr Leusden) in the University of Utrecht in Holland, who received the account of them, from the Ministers concerned in this glorious work This looks like a Morning Star

Papists have boasted of their Xaverins, who they say was an instrument of Converting many thousands of the East Indians, for which