N01899:293
India Christiana. A discourse, delivered unto the Commissioners, for the Propagation of the Gospel…
India Christiana. A discourse, delivered unto the Commissioners, for the Propagation of the Gospel among the American Indians : which is accompanied with several instruments relating to the glorious design of propagating our holy religion, in the Eastern as well as the Western, Indies. : An entertainment which they that are waiting for the kingdom of God will receive as good news from a far country. / By Cotton Mather, D.D. and F.R.S.
printed by B. Green, 1721
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But the disadvantage which the Indians are under through' the Scarcity of BIBLES is some what helped by the Care of the Honourable Commissioners to supply them with other useful Books in their own Language, viz. The N. England Confession of Faith; Several Catechisms; ⟨p. 94⟩The Practice of Piety; Mr. Shepard's Sincere Convert; Mr. Baxter's C•ll to the Unconverted. And several Sermons of Dr. Mather's, &c. besides the Psalter, & the Gospel of JOHN, Printed in the Year 1709. And the Indian Primer Printed this Year, in Indian and English. All which Books are now very useful unto them.
But the disadvantage which the Indians are under thro' the Scarcity of BIBLES is some what helped by the Care of the Honourable Commissioners to supply them with other useful Books in their own Language, viz. The N. England Confession of Faith; Several Catechisms; ⟨p. 94⟩The Practice of Piety; Mr. Shepard's Sincere Convert; Mr. Baxter's C•ll to the Unconverted. And several Sermons of Dr. Mather's, &c. besides the Psalter, & the Gospel of JOHN, Printed in the Year 1709. And the Indian Primer Printed this Year, in Indian and English. All which Books are now very useful unto them.
As to their Civil Government, the Indians in Dukes County, (as well as in other Places) are wholly under the English; But because their State does yet somewhat differ from that of their English Neighbours, there are several Laws made by the General Court of this Province, with a particular regard to the Indian Inhabitants of the same: And there are some English Justices especially Commissionated to take care of the Indians Inhabiting the several Counties of it: and these are directed to Nominate and Appoint several Officers among the Indians themselves, to assist under their regulation, in the Government of that People.