Title page
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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.
A Monitory, and Hortatory LETTER, To those ENGLISH, who debauch the Indians, By Selling Strong Drink unto them.
Written at the Desire of some CHRISTIANS, to whom the Mischiefs arising from that Vile Trade, are matters of much Apprehension and Lamentation.
Inter omnes Barbarorum morbos, quibus Levandis, atque tollendis invigilare debet Christiani Rectoris Providentia, nullus aut communior, aut Perniciosior, and etiam ad Curandum Difficilior, Ebrietate. Hornbeck, de convers. Indor. Ex Acosta. De industria pernicies tanta conceditur, imo vero appetitur; propter privatas nescio quas Commoditates Alij Indorum operas Larga Ebrietate concessa, sibi conciliant. Alij non Solum bibere sinunt, verum ipsi quoque temulentiam propinant. Neque tam turpis, infamisque quaestus pudet, — gladium ultro porrigentes insano. Atque haec nostri factitant, Lucrumque ex animarum interitu Captant. Acosta. L. 3. C. 22
Boston, N. E. Printed in the Year 1700.