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A50391	The conquests and triumphs of grace being a brief narrative of the success which the gospel hath had among the Indians of Martha's Vineyard (and the places adjacent) in New-England : with some remarkable curiosities, concerning the numbers, the customs, and the present circumstances of the Indians on that island : further explaining and confirming the account given of those matters, by Mr. Cotton Mather, in the Life of the renowned Mr. John Eliot / by Matthew Mayhew ; attested by the Reverend Mr. Nath. Mather, and others ; whereto is added, an account concerning the present state of Christianity among the Indians, in other parts of New-England, expressed in the letters of several worthy persons best acquainted therewithal.	Mayhew, Matthew, 1648-1710.; Mather, Nathanael, 1631-1697.; Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.	1695 (1695)	Wing M1437; ESTC R36496	25,356	72

Government through the pretences of Religion and the Eclipsing their Monarchical Dignity The ever Honoured Thomas Mayhew therefore finding that the Princes on these Islands who although they maintained their absolute Power and Jurisdiction as Kings were yet bound to doe certain Homage to a Potent Prince on the Continent and although they were no great People yet had been wasted by Intestine Wars wherein the great Princes on the Continent not unlike European Princes for like Reasons of State were not unassisting whereby they were necessitated to make these Princes the ballance to decide their Controversies and several Jurisdictions by presents annually sent whereby obliging the Princes to give their several Assistance as occasion required and seeing his Son as aforesaid in a zealous indeavour for their Conversion he judged it meet that Moses and Aaron joyn hands he therefore prudently lets them know that by order from his Master the King of England he was to Govern the English which should inhabit these Islands that his Master was in Power far above any of the Indian Monarches but that as he was powerful so was he a great lover of Justice that therefore he would in no measure invade there Jurisdictions but on the contrary Assist them as need required that Religion and Goverment were distinct things Thus in no long time they conceived no ill Opinion of the Christian Religion When afterwards the number of the Christian Indians were increased among them he perswaded them to admit of the Counsels of the Judicious Christians among themselves and in cases of more than ordinary consequence of a Jury for Tryal when likewise he promised his Assistance and Direction with the Prince when notwithstanding the Princes assent was to be obtained though he were no Christian Thus within a few years there was a happy Government settled among them and Records kept of all Actions and Acts passed in their several Courts by such who having learned to Write fairly were appointed thereto The Princes with their Sachims or Nobles made Publick acknowledgment of their Subjection to the King of England being nothwithstanding mindful to be understood as Subordinate Princes to Govern according to the Laws of God and the King Here I shall take leave to insert two Remarkables During the late unhappy War between the English and Indians in New-England about Nineteen years since an Evil Spirit possessed too many of our English whereby they suffered themselves to be unreasonably exasperated against all Indians of such there were some on these Islands who could hardly be so moderated by Mr. Mayhew and others in Government with him as to be restrained from rising to assay the disarming of the Indians for whose satisfaction Capt. Richard Sarson Esq was ordered with a small party the Indians being on these Islands Twenty to one having Arms to Treat the Indians on the West end of Martha's Vineyard who were mostly to be doubted he returns with the insuing Answer That the delivering their Arms would expose them to the will of the Indians ingaged in the present War who were not less theirs than the Enemies of the English that they had never given occasion of the distrust intimated if in any thing not hazarding their safety they could give any Satisfaction for proof of their Fidelity they would willingly attend what should reasonably be demanded of them but they were unwilling to deliver their Arms unless the English would propose some means for their safety and livelihoood With this Return they drew a Writing in their own Language which I have often read and would have Verbatim inserted but cannot at present find it the Substance was that as they had Submitted to the Crown of England so they resolved to Assist the English on these Islands against their Enemies which they esteemed in the same respect equally their own as Subjects to the same King which was Subcribed by the Persons of greatest note among them Having this answer the Government resolved and accordingly improved them as a guard furnishing them with suitable Ammunition and found them so faithful that even some nearly related in observance of general instructions given them so soon as they landed from the Continent were immediately brought before the Governour to attend his pleasure insomuch that the English although the War with respect to the multitude of Indians inhabiting the Continent and their advantage by the nearness to the French had no good aspect took no care but left the whole to the Indians nothing doubting to be advertised by them of any danger from the Enemy This was the effect of the bringing the Gospel of Peace among them Viz. a Peace-bringing Gospel The other observable I shall add to show as their Loyalty so their observance of the Laws of England In the time of the late Revolution when manny in hopes there was no King in Israel expected to have done what they saw good in their own eyes Several of our English threatning to fetch certain Sheep in possession of the Indians inhabiting a small Island Adjacent to Martha's Vineyard which Sheep they asserted were Stolen from them who met with repulse the Sachim least there should happen any misunderstanding of that matter immediately makes his report to me in these words Viz. Several of your English have been on my Island and would have forceably taken Sheep from thence and we are much threatned therewith I am doubtful if they persist in that Resolution it may Occasion Blood-shed you know that while your Grand-father and my Father lived there never happened any difference in such things nor hope will be Occasion given by me I desire the same Amity may be continued nor can the English say that we have not manifested our Allegiance to the King by a continued Subjection And although it is true we have desired your Order should come to us rather than your Officer which hath generally been observed yet we are willing in Case the English pretend any thing ours have injured them in let an Officer by writ from Authority doe his duty then we shall know how in an orderly way to be relieved yet shall the least Boy bringing your Order as in your Grand-fathers time Command any thing And if you see cause on any complaint about our Sheep your may command all of them hoping to find as hitherto a decision by the Rules of Justice We hope we shall not see as is too much practised in other places an English-man pretending an Indian to be in his debt to come to our Houses and pay himself or in other cases beat our People but as hitherto we may have equal Justice being the King Subjects and Violence and Riot committed on our People by the English may be esteemed of the same nature and quality as ours against them of which with the Justices we pray you would Consider and take speedy care I shall as to their Government only add that in their several Plantations or Town-ships they Elect three or more to joyn

THE Conquests and Triumphs OF GRACE BEING A Brief Narrative of the Success which the Gospel hath had among the INDIANS of Martha's Vineyard and the Places adjacent in New-England WITH Some Remarkable Curiosities concerning the Numbers the Customs and the present Circumstances of the INDIANS on that Island Further Explaining and Confirming the Account given of those Matters by Mr. Cotton Mather in the Life of the Renowned Mr. Iohn Eliot By MATTHEW MAYHEW Attested by the Reverend Mr. Nath. Mather and others Whereto is Added An Account concerning the Present State of Christianity among the Indians in other Parts of new-New-England Expressed in the Letters of several Worthy Persons best acquainted therewithal LONDON Printed for Nath. Hiller at the Princes Arms in Leaden-hall-street over against St. Mary Axe 1695. WE whose Names are under-written are well Assured and Satisfied of the Truth of these Narratives concerning the State and Success of the Gospel amongst the Indians in New-England George Griffith Matthew Mead. John How Vincent Alsop Isaac Chauncy Nath. Mather TO HIS EXCELLENCY Sir William Phipps Knight Captain General and Governour in Chief of the Province of the Massachusett-Bay in New-England TO THE HONOURABLE William Stoughton Esq Lieutenant Governour TO Major GENERAL Wait Winthrop Esq To the Reverend Increase Mather Praesident of Harvard Colledge AND To the Reverend Charles Morton Pastor of the Church in Charlstown SHOULD I not make Honourable mention of Your Names for Your continual Care of and Inspection into the Great Work of Civilizing the Indians and Promoting the Work for their Conversion and the hope of future incouraging the Preaching of the Gospel to such who as yet are Strangers to the God of Israel I should be justly condemnable I have in the insuing Scrole presented to the World a True Narrative though Short of the Beginning Progress and Present State of the Indians on Martha's Vineyard and Islands Adjacent and Places on the Mainland to them relating respecting their Conversion That I have not spoken of other parts of New England may be justly Excused since I have Written little more than what is of my own knowledge of other places I must have presumed from report Of the Calumnies cast on the Indian Professors I have in the discourse presented to Your view as in other things spoken briefly which I hope will be some Satisfaction to You. I shall only desire of You that incouragement might be given to some English or Indian Spirited for such Service humbly conceiving an Indian most probably like to effect the same to visit the Indians bordering on New England who might carry to them the glad Tydings of the Gospel but since I may not doubt Your Prudence in this as in other your weighty Affaires I shall not add to this but Subscribe Your EXCELLENCIES And Your HONOVRS Most Humble Servant MATTHEW MAYHEW Martha's Vineyard Iune 18. 1694. THE PREFACE THAT Blessed Work which is the Principal Subject of these following Narratives was begun about Fourty or Fifty Years ago And there were then Published for Three or Four Years successively several Prints giving account of its Progress under the Titles of The Day dawning c. Strength out of Weakness c. Tears of Repentance c. to the great rejoycing of the Hearts of many Precious Saints of that Day Since that Time there hath been but little that I know of Communicated to the Publick concerning that Affair save only that Letter from my Dear Brother Mr. Increase Mather to Doctor John Leusden of Utrecht which is here Inserted and which was soon after it was Received Printed in Latine as it was Written and also Translated into French and into English and the French Translation Printed in the Netherlands the Latine and the English here in London first by it self and the English again afterward in the Story of the Life of Mr. John Eliot by my Dear Nephew Mr. Cotton Mather Which ●ife of Mr. Eliot was first Printed in New England and hath been Printed thrice here in London tho' not without being greatly maimed according to the Direction and Pleasure of our English Index Exp●…g●torius This Letter when first ●rinted here was Presented to the King by the Right Honourable the Lord Wharton These other Papers here joyned therewith were lately Printed at Boston in New England and sent over from thence to my Hand by my Dearest Brother there I give this so Particular an Account concerning these Relations that the Reader may rest assured and satisfied concerning the Truth and Certainty of Matter of Fact as here reported The Jesuits about 130 Years ago endeavoured to amuse the World by their Epistolae Indicae and other Prints with Stories of the Conversions wrought by them and their Companions in the East-Indies and Adjacent Isles But as many of the Stories which they tell are palpable and impudent Impostures so if all that they vaunt of their Conversions were true no milder Censure of them can be given than that which Christ passeth on the Conversions made by the Pharisees who he tells us compassed Sea and Land to make one Proselyte and when he was made he became twofold more a Child of Hell than they who proselyted him Of the Justness of this Judgment there needs no other Evidence than that Book Entituled Manuale ad Sacramenta Ecclesiae ministranda D. Ludovici Ce●…queira Japonensis Episcopi opera ad usum sui Cleri ordinatum Cum approbatione facultate Nangsaquij in Collegio Japonico Societatis Jesu Anno Domini MDCV. It is a Directory for the Ministring of their Sacraments as also for Reconciling or Purifying Churches and Burying-Places for making Holy-water for blessing Priests Garments New Crosses a Paschal Lamb Bread New Fruits Candles New Houses New Ships Nets New sown or planted Ground Sick Cattle as also for exorcising or driving out Devils from Bodies from Storms of Hail and Lightning from Haunted Houses with more such Trumpery It appears by it all along what woful Christians they there make the most Solemn Services wherein they are instructed and to which they are ingaged being full of abominable Idolatries foul and gross and sottish Superstitions execrable Blasphemies horrid Conjurations and damned Magical Practises In all which their miserable Converts follow and have going before them those Agents for Hell and Factors for the Devil their wretched Priests and Perverters But in these New England Preachers and Converts among the Indians there the Reader will find nothing but the Plainness and Simplicity of the Gospel and the Power of the Grace of Christ accompanying it It must be confessed they have not in use among them either Lordlike Bishops or Pompous Ceremonies or Set Forms of Human Composure and Prescribing for Publick Prayer and Praise But surely there may be Real Converts to Christ True and Pure Churches and Acceptable Worship tendred up to God without those Things which the Scripture knoweth nothing of The truth is those Persons whom the Lord hath used and honoured in this Blessed