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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

with the Sachims or Lords of the place who hold Courts for issuing such Controversies as happen among them the Sachim presiding in such Courts or in case he decline that Office another is Elected in his place if either party dislike the Judgment given he Appeals to a Superiour Court which consists of some of the most esteemed of each place being some of their Magistrates where some Principal Sachims is Elected to preside for one Year and from this Court an Appeal lyes to the English Court. In giving Judgment they observe such rules and orders made and recorded among themselves and the English Law the knowledge whereof they much aspire unto They have likewise some among them whom the less able to declare or defend their own Cases imploy as Attornies some of which are to admiration Critical in their pleadings I shall close the whole when I have told the Reader that their Children are generally taught to Read and many to Write in one of their Towns the last Winter Viz. 1693. Thirty Children were at School Twenty more of the same place at the same time accidentally being not supplyed with Books could not attend it Such who are too far distant from any School are often taught by some of their Neighbours In diverse places are lesser Schools CONCLVSION May if not a double yet a single Portion of the Spirit of an ELIOT of New England the Mayhews of Martha's Vineyard a Bourn of Sandwich in the late Colony of New-Plymouth fall on some Persons who may induced with an Holy Zeal for God and the Conversion of Souls according to their Example Be instant in Season and out of Season indure all things become all unto those miserable Creatures that if possible they may Win some not doing the Work of the Lord negligently by only Preaching a Sermon to such who desire to hear but by frequent visiting them and from House to House disputing with and convincing them shew that it is God and not themselves they Serve believing there is a great and Eternal Weight of Glory attending those whom the Lord shall find So Doing Then may we hope to see a Blessing on this Land and Peace on our borders and the Indians bordering on us shall obey not out of Fear but for Conscience sake May the Indian Church send forth some from among themselves to the more Remote Indians with as good Success as when to the next bordering Indians May the Royal Heart of our Gracious KING still favour so Great and Glorious an Undertaking To which may the LORD our GOD give His Blessing AMEN Postscript HAving among many things worthy of notice in the Precedent Discourse omitted some Remarkables of the Indian Converse with Infernal Spirits I thought meet to briefly touch some things therein Remarkable and to insert a Narrative of the Decease of a Prince memorable for his forsaking his People for the sake of Christ and his return with happy Success in Proselyting his Subjects to the Worship of God in Christ This I find Written on the out-side of a Book in the Library of Mr. John Mayhew deceased which please to take as followeth Mittark Sachim rather Prince of the Gay-head on Martha's-Vineyard Deceased January 1683. This Princes Subjects being resolved to continue in their Heathenism notwithstanding his imbracing the Gospel grew so disaffected to him that he for a time removed to the East end of Martha's Vineyard whither after three years abode at the said place he again returned having perswaded his People into a willingness that such who would might attend the glad Tydings he pretended to bring whereupon He himself opened to them the Mysteries of the Gospel dispencing the word to such as came to hear him insomuch that at this day that People are All Christians by Profession The day before his Death I being with him inquired of him concerning his hope who after he had treated some time of the Mutability of an earthly Life Said I have hope in God that when my Soul departeth out of this Body God will send his Messengers who shall Conduct it to Himself to be with Jesus Christ and then with great earnestness pronounced these words where that Everlasting Glory is As for my reasons said he I my self have had many wrongs of Enemies of whom I have sought no Revenge nor retained evil in thought word nor deed and I also expect the same from God but said he I proceed no further for God is very Merciful then I asked him of his willingness to Dye he replyed It is now Seven Nights since I was taken Sick and I have not yet asked of God to live longer in the World In this World are some benefits to be injoyed also many troubles to be indured but with respect to the hope I have in God I am willing to dye here I am in pain there I shall be freed from all pain and injoy that Rest that never endeth Then pointing to his Daughters said There be three of my Daughters relating how they were disposed of and you my Daughters if you loose your Father Mourn not for me but Mourn for your selves and for your Sins Mourn not for me for though you are unwilling to spare me and I might be helpful to you if I should Live longer in this World yet to dye is better for me Of Powaws or Persons improving the Infernal Spirits to Effect their intended Malicious Harms I can inform of a Converted Sachim who in his Publick Protestation said as followeth Viz. That he having often imployed his god which appeared to him in form of a Snake to Kill Wound and Lame such whom he intended mischief to he imployed the said Snake to Kill and that failing to Wound or Lame Hiacooms the first Convert on Martha's Vineyard all which proved ineffectual and having seriously considered the said Hi acombs Assertion that none of the Powaw's could hurt him since his God whom he now Served was the Great God to whom theirs was subservient he resolved to worship the true God from which time during Seven years the said Snake gave him great disturbance but that he never after his Praying to God in Christ ever imployed that said Snake in any thing which about that time ceased to appear to him I can also inform of an Indian Powaw who although he was not accounted Religious yet said he was a Christian who being questioned by some English of such matters reported of him acknowledged that designing to Kill by Witchcraft a certain Indian who accidentally lodged in the House with him and his Brother while he went out to inchant an Hair his Brother who before lay from now contrary to his knowledge lay next to the fire it being then their custom to lye bare-back't to the fire he when he came in nothing doubting but that it was his Enemy directed the inchanted Hair to the back of his supposed Enemy which immediately entering his body killed him but in the Morning it proved to be

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-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