India Christiana. A discourse, delivered unto the Commissioners, for the Propagation of the Gospel…

We rejoice in what our Dutch Brethren have done in the East-Indies, where the Schoolmasters have taught some Hundreds of Thousands, to recite, The Lords-Prayer, the Greed, the Ten Commandments, a Morning-Prayer, an Evening-Prayer, a Blessing before Eating, and after. But in the West Indies, we have aimed at a Vital Work, before we have Baptized them.

We rejoyce in what our Dutch Brethren have done in the East-Indies, where the Schoolmasters have taught some Hundreds of Thousands, to recite, The Lords-Prayer, the Greed, the Ten Commandments, a Morning-Prayer, an Evening-Prayer, a Blessing before Eating, and after. But in the West Indies, we have aimed at a Vital Work, before we have Baptized them.

There were no less than Thirty Nations of Indians, which occupied the Land, that is now covered by the New-English Colonies. A Great Part of these Contemptuously and Obstinately Rejected the Repeated Offers of the Gospel, which our Evangelists made unto ⟨p. 36⟩them; which Impiety was very much owing unto their TORY-Sachems, who were Jealous that Christianity would bring some Abridgement upon their Arbitrary Government. The Devil, to whose Possession and Slavery these Miserables thus Resigned themselves, quickly inspired them to a Precipitation into foolish Wars with the English Colonies, which quickly terminated in the utter Extirpation of them from off the face of the Earth. After they had for a little while distressed us, they fell into Confusions, into which as Men under an amazing Sideration, or like Beasts that are Stung with an Hornet, they every where fell an easy Prey to the Sword of the Wilderness; They Perished Wonderfully; and some of their Stouter Captains, laying their Hands on their Breasts, were heard giving this Account of it, Here the Englishman's GOD makes us afraid! In these Wars, the Christianized Indians assisted the English, and were very Serviceable in subduing the Pagan Rebels. And now I know not any Numbers of Indians in this Province, but what have Embraced the Doctrine of GOD our SAVIOUR; [Oh! were it more Adorned among them!] Except those Destroyers of the East, whom the French Priests have infatuated with the Poisons of their Popery; But for the Reclaiming of