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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

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