Kennet, White. Sermon Preached before the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. . .1711 -r!2. London, 1712. FYAiuE-waivEKainnf- • ILIUBIRifcEW • gCgKICTfft.WBWWB.T^M ¦w*wv««w»k«wjmv,ws?; The LETS and IMPEDIMENTS in Plan ing a'&d Propagating theGo&el of Chrifi^ ' '•* ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ i - ..''•.•. .... .' ¦ SERMON Preach'd before the r- SOCIETY FOR THE Propagation of the Gpipel ; foreign PARTS' A T Their Anniverfary Mcetirig,in the Parifh Church of Its Mary-le-fiow, on Friday the t 5 tb of February, 17 |i. t With Sojrie References relating to Matters of Fa0* ""¦''.,. ' A N D ' ' An Abftr4& of the Proceedings of ch Society within the Year laft paft. QyWMlTE K^EHHET, D.D. Dean of Peterborough, and Chaplain in Ordinary to Her Majefty* .in i''""'1 L 6- N D O N: " Prjftted and Sold by, Jofyh Downing in BimhhriiiiwQhfe, near Weji-Smithfiild^ 171a. At a General Meeting of The Society for the Propagation of the Gofpel in Fo reign Parts, Friday February 15, 17"; AGREED, That the Thanks of this Society be given to the Dean of; Peterborough, for his Sermori preach'd this. Day in the Church of St. Mary-le-1-S. By William Stanley, D. D. Dean of St. Afafh, on^«.lX„ 3 7, 3 *. 3-hen faith hi unto hisDifiiples, TteHarvefi.mlyisplmteo^but the Labourer? are few, &c. VIII. A Sermqn Preach d before the Society, by the Right Reverend Sr. William !>*»«, Lord Bi fhop oiChefter^ on *WVity i**. 1 8". 1 7o8"9- on Hits XXII. 21. Depart, for I vitt fend thee far hence unto the Getihles. IX. A •Sermon' Preach'd before the Society iorPropagation of the Gofpel, on Friday.Feb. 17- i7°9-*°- By the Right Reverend CharleslMiA.mihopo£Norvich,onSt.Man. XI.5. ^ Pw.W* f& Gofpel Preached to them. X. A, Sermon Preached before the Society, on Friday Feb. 16. 1710-ri. By the Right ¦ Beve- t-tndf William Lord Bifhop of St. Afaph,-M A£ls XX VJ. 18. To oj«* their fyes, and . fo . turn than from frnknefs to Light, anf, from the Power of Satan unto God, &c. A 4 Vim $'" A Sermon freacPd before the Society for the pious Endeavours, and confpire -to hinder the Gofpe I >ef Chrift, •'. They^ are indeed too many to be diftinctly handled j ' the chief of 'them are thefe: I. The affecting Conqueft and ufurping temporal poirii- nion, rather than enlarging the Kingdom of Chrift. It -The driving on Trade an4 fecular Intereft and Gain, rather than feeking the Glory of God and the Good of Souls. III. The practifiaglnjuftice, Fraud and Oppreffion, inftead of providing Things Honeft in the Sight of thofe Heathens. IV. The exercifing.; of Force and. Cruelty to compel them to be Converts, inftead of the perfwading and convincing of them. Vthly and Laftly, The letting an iil Example among them, by any Loofenefs or Profanenefs, to make void the Doctrines that are preach'd unto' them. Any of thefe indirect Ways will afTuredly and deplorably hinder the Gofpel of Chrift. " The$rft mighty Let arid, Impediment in plant- f* ting this Gofpel amidft any. Heathen Country, ,<« would be the affecting Conqueft, and ufurping if* temporal Dominion, rather than enlarging the lf Kingdom Qf Chrift. For why, the Laws of God and' Hature have given to all People a Title and hereditary Claim to their .Native Country, and the Liberties and Pro,- perties belonging to it ; and have to that End imr printed a noble Inftindt and Ardour on their Minds, tp defend their Places pf Birth and Abode, and to refift ail Foreign Power that atternpteth to in vade them, or airy way viplently to difpoflefs therm Hence the Difciples of our Lord, when Hrft turn ing to the Gentiles, took Care to apprife them, that thqy came among them' only for their Souls Sake,' and to direft them to a fetter Country^ that of Heaven, without meddling with their fettled Ppr{|on<> here j^n Earth ^ as the Difcipjes of a fpi- ritual Propagation of the Gofpel in Foreign Parts. .9 ritual Lord and Matter, whole Kingdom was not of this Worid, and who had not where to lay his Head in it. This was the main Reafon why thofe firft Planters of the Gofpel amongft Jews and v Gentiles, never once interpofed in their Preaching Or Writing, with the particular Conftitution of any Country, pr the Form of Governpent eftablifh- ed in if, nor with the Extent of Power in any Prince •, nor with, the Foundations of Property and Rights in any People, But leaving fuch Ordinan ces of Men, to their antecedent S£t£lernent by Com- . pact pr Cuftom of every Place ; they taught only f he. Things that made for mutual Peace and pub- lick Good ; That Magiftrates were the Minifters of God for that 'Good, and that Chriftian Peoplp fhould qontinu^ to fubmit themfelves unto them, not as before only for Wrath, but now, rather for Confcience fa\e. Fpr had they taught Rulers to op- prefs, or Subjefts tp rebel, they had not only exceeded their Commiflion, but they had been juftly to be biam'd for Sowers of Sedition, Raif- ers of Tumult, and even Turners pf the World upfide down : Much more, had they caft their Con gregations into Bands' and Armies, and gone forth to plant their Gofpel by the Sword,.. and founded their Dominion in the Grace of that Gofpel of thrift : This would have harden'd the Heathens* froiri giving any Manner of .Reception or Attention to them.' But,' I fay, the pra&iee.of the Apoftles had ho Appearance of this Evil in it : they went about like their Matter doing Good, feeking the Redempti on of loft Souls, and renouncing every Way of over coming the World, but by Faith and Prayers. St. Paul defcribes wel} their fpiritual Warfare in his fecond Epiftle to thefe ProfefTors at Corinth, VI. 4- In all Things approving our felvzs as the Minifters vfGcd, in much Patience, in AffliBions, in NeceffttieS, in ViftnfftS) and fo on in various Trials } yet havr ""¦" :''' ins I© A Sermon preach'd before the Society for the ing no Weapons but the Word of Truth, . and the Power of Gody nor any other Armour, buftliat of Right eoufnefs on the 'Right Hand and on the Leff,.(MaVJ: XIII. 10.) It was thus the Gofpel was firft puhliftxsd <*» mong all Nations. . ",.-o- But alas, in the degenerate Ages of the Chrifti'an Church, then was Chrift fet up fpr a Martial Coni- petitor'With Mahomet. Then was War firft call'd ¦Holy ; and Blood was again fhed on every Side of ferufalem, :.'to ptifhon a Conqueft "and new Domi nion, 'which' 'God' for that Reafon would heyej- profper, but h,^ left "that Field of Contentiojv ft j£l in the Hands' of the Enemies of 'the Crdfs,;pf Chrift.- Yet' the like Pride' and, Ambition $f \ the Church 'of ' Rome went oii' to' offer, the Kingdoms of the World' to the longfeft Sword' of her- Catho- lickPrinces^ pretending that the Doriatlon of her Popes could -give 9' Title "tp'^any '.Country' of Infidels or 'Hereticks'Y and that it '$as( lawful* and' even jneritbrious, ;to recover by; Fb'rce of A^ms,' what ever was fo'convey'd by the power of the Kfys ^ and' when 'acqnir'd,, the Right, was in the Dpnor, to difpofe of all Temporals, * in order at leaft* £0 Spirituals. ' ,',--c~\ , ..-- .% It is well known that the firft Attempts and. Aj?> .qnifitibns of the" Spaniards in the Weft-Indies, wpr$ plainly upon this Foot ; a Gift of the Pppe, to" be obtain'd by ' military Arms V(F) by invadihg."'.th£ Country, '' and expelling Or inflating the Inhabitants thereof ; their own Authors (if) havp-'not fuppref-r :: • ' " - " . ¦ : fed ' (b) See the Bull -of ¥ ope Alex. VI. granting the Iflands and Countries of the New World, to Ferdinand and Elizabeth; King and Queen of Cafile. — dat.>Rom* M. CCCC. XCI1I. IV. Nan. Mai j Pont. PrJvio. .¦•;..; (c) Peter Martyr the Miimo-fe, who had been a Traveller in the Weft-Indies anjong the hrft Adventurers, tends an Account <, ' - " to Propagation of the Gofpel in Foreign Parts. 1 1 m — ¦ ¦¦' ¦' ¦¦ ¦¦-¦- — ' ¦¦¦yinMNiwii !,¦¦¦* 11 feb -the Evidence of this Truth? efpecially tfle Spanijh Bifhop of Chiapa in Mexico was not able to contain his Humanity on this Subject. »"> He condol'd the Mifery of the poor Indians, that they' were hunted into Converfion like Beafts into Nets and Toils: That their Country, was conquerM andlaid waft by Fire and Sword round about them , that the Crofs was fet up for a Title of the New Chri- Itian PofTeffion •, .and thatit was Death for the Na tives to remove it. That their belt Condition was to be Fugitives and Exiles in foine'othcr Landj for that they could ftay only to be Slaves and Sacrifi ces to the Will : and Pleafure of their 'new Lords and.Mafters. (d) ¦ »- By thefe Conquefts and Ufurpations-, in the |^ame of the Church, it is certain that the poof Indians did imbibe a great Prejudice againft Ghri- ftianity: They could not but' abhor ;a Religion thai; h^nifh'd them, or murder'd them, and took their Lands and forry Houfes in PofleQio'n. That Ob- • ftinacy, to the Pope, that F!gidius Ganfalas, one of the Spavijb Go- verndurs, ufed to fend this Meflage to the Indian King^ That they fliould -become Chriftiany, and: fhotrld fubmTtTo" be fubjett to the great King of Spain ; or.if rhey^refiisa, they muft expect Vioknce and Deftruclribn. Upon which moft of them would defire Peace and'Baptifm. 'Pet. Mar. VI. Decad.Chap. 3.^.237. '',,,-.',' ", , "I (d) The Spaniards commanded the Indians to embrace the Chriftian Religion upon pain of Death ; they jnenac'd thenV with cruel Slavery, or the moft exauilite Torture , ro f:r:e them to turn Chriftians ; as it the Son of God, who Dy'd for the Redemption of Men, had ordam'd.thofe whom he fent to preach the Gofpel, and declare the Kingdom of God, to conitrain People that lived Peaceably in their, own Country, to make Profeffion of his Doctrine, on pain of beino-Plunder'd of their Goods, of being feparated froni, theirWives and Children, of lofing their Liberty, and of being Condenin'd to a" cruel-Death. — Relation of the Spam ih Yoyaglgand Cruelties inthe Weft-Indies, By Earth, des Cafas,, 'Bijhop of Chiapa, 8vo. p. 24. 12 A Sermon preach'd before the Society for the -ftinacy, with which many of them now refift the Gofpel is owing to this Averfion and Hatred which they found in their Fore-fathers, and which is im proved in their Minds, by what they fee, where Pppery prevails among them $ where" the Govern nours, call'd, Chriftians, are often fo many Execu tioners and Tormentors of them -7 and where the very Miffionary Priefts are rather worldly Tyrants .and Oppreflbrs, than Guides and Leaders unto Hea ven. ' ->3 How the Church of Rome has carried on the fame Caufe, under the fame Standard of War and Conqueft, in all other habitable Parts of the World, tho' (God be thanke'd) with lefs Succefs, (e) istPo large a Subject for this Time. I would only ob- ferve to yoti, that the foft and falutary Methods of Converfion, taken by this, Society, taxe of a more Chriftian Nature ; are far from breathing put any Threatnings, or any Slaughter, any Con queft or Slavery of the People of the Land. 'Our Plantations were at firft fettled, a£ it were»pon dereliil Lands, whereon the former Inhabitants had. been well nigh Extinct, by Wars and'Peftilence, ''.'."'• - and- #- —- _ '^-—^ le) See their Converfions in the. Kingdom of Congo in A- frica-, in the Ye#rs 1666, and 1667. By the Reverend Fa thers Michael Angeh of Gattina, and Dennis de Cgrli of Piacenza. Capuchins and Apoftolical Miffioners to the faid Kingdom. Another Voyage to Congo, ,and feveral other Countries, by Father Jerome Merolla- de Sarento, a Capuchin and Apoftolick Miflioner, in the Year 1682, astranflated and inserted in the Colled, of Travels. I Vol. Fol. Printed for A. and J, Church ill. — -TheHiftory of the Church of Malabar, from: the time of its being "jirfl: (iifcover'd by the Portuguefe in the Year I5°'> &c< By Michael Geddes, Chancellor of Sarutn, 1694. 8vo. A brief Account of the Rebellions and Blood. Ihed occafioned by the Antichriftian Pra&ices of the Jefuits, and other Emiflaries, in the Empire of Ethiopia, Collected out of a Manufcript Hiftory, written in Latin by Jo. Mmhael W*nflyberi, a karne d Fapift, London, 1679. 410. <£v. Propagation of the Goftel in Foreign Parts. 1 $ and the Remnant of them had, for :the moft Part, retired into remoter, . fafer Habitations. Our far ther Progrefs in thofe Countries has been by ac knowledging the Property of the original People^ entring into Alliance and Commerce with them, receiving Allotments of Ground by fair Pjn;chafe from them, taking them into bu*,|?FOtection, and defending them from the Inroads* of any other Enemy. It was a Senfe of this juft and honoura ble Ufage of them, that fo lately brought ,over their Chiefs or Princes into this Nation, to do Honour unto our QZJEEN, not by being made VafTals, but in becoming Friends and Confederates, and defiring and depending on Her Protection a- gainft him, whom thofe Nations have long thought to be the common Enemy and Oppreflor. We muft always fo aft with them upon the Laws of Nations, and the moft amicable Rules of the Gof pel •, and we may reafonably hope by fuch Means, to bring the Gentiles fooner to the Knowledge of the Truth. " II. The Second Let and Impediment in planting « the Gofpel, is for the Planters of it to be driv- " ing on a Trade, and meerly fecular Intereftand " Gain, inftead of feeking the Glory of God, and « the Good of Souls. It ftands recorded among the Mercies, and even among the- Miracles of our BlefTed Saviour, (Matt. XL 5.) That the Poor had the Gofpel preached to them, i. e. without Price or any mercenary Regards. St. Paul could appeal to all the Elders of the Church at Ephefm, that he had coveted no Man s Silver, or Gold, or Apparel -, but had rather made his own Hands to minifter unto his Neceffities, and to them that were with him, (Ads XX. 33-) He tells his Peo ple of Thejfalonica, being afettionatfly deftrout of Vow, we were willinz to have imparted unto you> not the J i A - Gofpel ¦¦-^a.-. ¦¦¦¦I'" ' ,. T J 4 A* Sermon preach'd before the Society fot the Gofpel -of* God only.,' but alfo our own Souls, hecaufe ye were dcrP mio iis,--(i ThefT II. 8.) There 'be man# other Teflimonies of a generous and difintereftea Zeal- for the gaining of Souls, in the firft Planters of Chriftianity ; tP fhew, that their pure Religion" was ^|ve all fordid and feculaf Defigns, was not eartlilyil|p-teeif the Flock of God for filthy Lucre ± Mt with a $Mlf Mind, (i Pet. V. 2.) and for a Re^ clllpfcnge aWre: The Apoftle: upbraided thofe' ffil%4TVMchsrs, .who, through Cdvetoufnefs, made i fort of Merchandife of Souls^ (1 Pet. II. 3.) This was very unworthy the Riches of Chrift preach'd among the Gentiles, (Ephef. III. 8.) It was referv'd for the Abominations of the fpiritual Babylon, that among the Merchandife of Gold and Silver, and other pre- tious Wares, there fhould be found Slaves and Souls of Men, (Rev. XVIIL "30.) Thefe Things have' been fulfilled in the Church of Rome, as their own (f) Writers have con- „- : fefs'd: (/; Their Writers have told us,, that their carrying RelU gion into the Eafi-Indies 7 was only fubfervient to their Trade in thofeParts; thatthey built Churches,orpull'd them down,; as more or lefs ufeful to their Commerce. Sp Fryer Peter Qt Lisbon, in a Letter to, Fryer Diego in Portugal, dated front Cochin'' in the Eaji-Indies,' 28 December 1589. relates} I had great Conference with the King of Pegu and his chief Peo ple ;they demanded of me many Queftions, touching the Law and Faithof Jefus Chrift, and touching the Ten Command ments. And the King gave his Conient, that our Order fliould Build a Church in his Country, which was half build- edj^but our perverfe and malicious Porttigals pluck'd- it daffk again. 1 For whereas it is a Country wherein our Na tion gains very much by their Commodities, they fearing^ that by the Building this Church, there , would be greater I^efort thither, and fo their Trade fhould be impaired, if their great Gains fhould 'be known unto bothers, than thofe which found this Country out at firft; therefore they were* fd unwilling thac the Building of this Church fhould go for^ ward : Our P-onuguefe here, which are in this Realm, are worfe People than the Gentiles, &c. Unckhit Voyages Fol. Tom, II, p. io». Propagation of the Gofpel in ForeignP.arts., i< fefs'd .: They tbemfelves tell ns, That the Siwiiardsy in their firft Difcoveries of that new World, ( gr) ' preferr'd.- their Gain infinitely before any Godlinefs whatever ; examin'd the poor People about Gold, not about Religion ; ,'feeking not them,, but theirs ; Baptizing them only for a Token and Mark of Pro perty to New Matters-, giving them Beads and^ Grofles, as Hooks, and Baits to draw .out Things of greater Value from 'em ; and after all, taking a- way their Lives, if they could not produce fome' referv'd Ranfom . for them. They confefs again, that the favage Indians were fenfible of this horri ble Abufe put upon them, and did fhake theif Heads, and :fhew, great Indignation at it. (h~) They: obferve, that the Spanifh Governours and Leaders made Ufe of the Priefts and Fryers, only as Set-' ters to them ; and yet were fometimes fb jealous of the -Priefts interfering in their Profits, that they forbid them Entrance into fbme Towns of great- eft Trade and Treafure •, and quarrelled with them often for making their Slaves . idle with Prayers, and (g) The Inftances are la* ge and many, given by Piter Martyr? Barithpl.de Cafas, and other Eye-Witneffes. (h) The Notions the Indians had of them' and their Religi on, 'were thefe : They looked upon them as a fort of People entirely eaten up of bafe and covetous Defires ; and that' they would do any thing for fordid Gain;- and therefore they '4iave held up pieces ; of Gold to them in Mockery: Ho^Chriftians (fay they) hires. Gold, here's Gold'. Intimating,- there was the Thing theyAdmir'd and Ador'd; they knew very well it was the governing Idol of their Souls, and that whatever refpeft they pretended to God Almighty, it was this only that they Wcrfhip'd in their Hearts ; and therefore the Spaniards have heard them- fay, Look upon this Gild,, and. behold you* God. It is for this that you have Subdued us, and done fo many Mifchiefs ; 'tis for thjs that you Game, Blaf-, pheme, Curfe, Quarrel, Steal, commit Rapes, and praftife all manner of Luft and Villany, &c» See Dr, Harris's C©He£fc of Voyages, Fol. Vol.. I. p. 758. 1 6 A Sernion preach *d before the Society for the and (i) ^uch as they thought impertinent Offices1 of Religion. We cannot boaft, that all out P.toteftmtrBre^ threri, or all our Fellow-Subjects are clearly inno cent of thefe fordid fhameful Crimes. Too many Complaints have been made, that fome of our Plan ters have formerly obftru&ed theCbnverfiPn of theif Slaves, from a ftrange Sufpicion that they would be then of lefs Value to them, (k) And that fome of our Traders among the remoter Indians, have artfully incited them to Wars and Battles, that af ter a Victory on either Side, they might purchafe Slaves in greater Numbers and at eafier Rates* I wifh thefe Men eould take the Sin and Scandal • upon 6') The infatiable Covetoufnefs of the tyakUrds, who mihd nothing but to amafs together heaps of Treafure, makes them unwilling .to fuffer any Priefts or Monks to come into thofe Cities where they are Matters, &c. Relation given by the Bifhop of Chiapa, Engl. Tranflation, 8vo. p. no", 123 ,- &C. for feat their Worldly Intereft fhould receive ' da* ¦ mage, becaufe ("fay they) it makes the Indians idle, to Affem- ble them together, and Inftract them in the matters of Reli- gion ; for all the time they take up to Preach to them, they detain them from the Work impos'd on them. Sometimes when the poor Indians have been aflembled for their InftruftiJ on inChfiftianitV, the Spaniards have infolently accofted them with Cudgels in their Hands, and with other Cruelties j which is a great Scandal to our Religion, and a mighty Ob« ftacle to their Converfion. ibid. {k) See a Sermon, intituled, Trade preferrd before Religion. By Morgan Godwyn of Chrift-Church in Oxford^ who in his Preface before it, tells us what he calls a moft dreadful Story, related to me (fays he) by One that had fpent fome time in .thoftf Parts, of the Behaviour of fome of our Factors towards the Natives of a certain Place called Jackatra upon Java, who, defirous to be Inftructed in Chriftianity by the EngHJbj were moft unchriftianly denied the Favour ; they forfooth dreading leaft their apt Scholars fhould thereby come to improve their Faculty in the Myftery of Buying and Selling^ (as if that alfo were a Myftery of the Gofpel) which in time might leffen their Gain, and fa fpoil all. - i PropAgatim of the Go/pel in Foreign Parts. \ "] upon their own (7) Heads, and notcaft a Reproach updn bur Religidrt and our Nation. An infinite Reproach it is for any Chriftian People to facri- hce their' Religion in the Sight of the Heathen, for a little Worldly Gain, (m) We thank God, this Society cannot be fufpected of any indirect Dealings in that Kind:. We freely- give a Part of our own Subftance, and we are faithful Stewards of the Gifts and Benefactions of others : Our Mif- libharies are chiefly fupported .out of the common Fund of Charity t We do indeed believe that the B Trade (l) Some Letters from oiir Correfpohdents in thofe Parts, efpecially in South-Carolina, have complain'd of this Practice in fome Znglifh Traders or. Factors, who have gone up to Trade with the Indians bordering upon Florida^ &c. Letter from Gotfcrtek dated October 20. 1700. — I am tdldftill, if any thing ofjpofes the PuMifhing of the Gofpel among the indians, it fhall be the manner of carrying on our Indian Trade, chiefly the fomenting War amonglt them for our People toget Slaves. (m) The Author of A Preliminary bifcourfe concerning the CharaBer of a Mijponary, prefixt to An Account If the Succfs if Two Danifh Mijfionaries, lately fent to the E aft- Indies, 17 J 1. 8-uo. pWs in this Paragraph. The Gentleman that attended Sir Thomas Roe in his EmbafTy to the Great Mogul, in the time of King7*?»«I. about the year 16*1 J. confirms, in his Deicripti- 6n of the Territories of that Prince, what hath been com plain'd of by the prcfent Mijfionariss in their Letters. It is a moft fad and horrible thing (fays he) to conftdtr what _ Scandal there is brought upon the Chriftian' Religion, by the Loofneji and Remifnefs, by the -Extrbitancies of many -which cime amongft them, who proftfs themfehes Cl.r.'/lianr, of whim I hai-i often heard the Natii'ts (who live near the Port rehire our Ships arrive) fay thus in broken Englifh, which they have gotten, Chriftian Religion, Devil Religion; Chriftian mush Drunk, Chriftian much do Wrong, much Bear, much Abufe ethers Where he alfo takes Notice of the cxaiJJuftice and Hom -fly of the Hindooes ¦or Heathens, trading with the Chriftian;. th.-f after having ft the loweft rate upon the. Goods expefd to Sale, and being yet tjfered far lefs by the Ghriftians ; in thefe Bargainings -were apt to fay, Doft thou think me a Chriftian, that I ihculd go alout to deceive thee? 1 8 A Sermon predched before the Society for the Trade of this Nation would be very much-improv'ct by the Advancement of Religion in thofe Parts •, but even this is left for a happy Confequence, and not propos'das an immediate -View : We labour and pray for the Succefs.of Pur Labours, expecting no other Returns, but pur Acceptance., with Gpd, and Pur Reward in Heaven. " III. A Third -Hindrance pf the Gpfpel, will be " our pradtifing Injuftice, Fraud and Oppreffion, " .inftead of providing Things hpneft; in the Sight " pf; thofe Heathens we labour to convert.. The good Apoftles had nothing more at Heart, tfiab that the Name of God fiouldnot be blafphemed among the .Gentiles. And they were fenfible that nothing would; more tend to it, than for Chrifti- ahs to break the Laws of Nature, and the Rules of Gentile Honour, in doing the bale Things of Dif- hpnefty and Fraud -, for this would turn the Hearts of the Heathen, alienate their Affections from the very Faith or Profeflion of fucb Men, i who, at e- very Advantage to be caught, would be the De ceivers and theRtibbersof them. The Law of Nature has fet up an even Balance in the Minds of all rational Pagans, and in their mutual, Dealings they defire to be weighed in -it, knowing without any other Law, how to .be a Law unto themfehes in the Equivalents qf Com merce ; and how in their own Thoughts- to judge of Right -and Wrong. Hence it was truly divine Wifclom in our Saviour to eftablifh his Gofpel up on thefe Foundations of the common Senfe of Man- ¦ kind, the Doing unto others, -as we would they ftould do. unto us. TheDifcipks Wit on the fame Foun dation,- of having thsir'Converfation honeft among the :Gentilcs, (i Pet- II. 12.), and of providing • for honefi Things, not only in the Siqht of the Lord, but alfo in the Sight of Men? becattfe.thc contrary Arts Propagation ~$f, the Gofpel in Foreign Parts* t ty Arts and. Tricks would, be, the greateft ftuinbling Block and Stpne.pf Offence, th^ cpuld be, caft at the' Feet, and before the Eyes of .the Heathen* St. Paul therefore recommenced his Miniftratiqri to the Gentiles, in , thai he. had renounced. the hidden Things of Dijhonefty, not walking in Craftwefsy not handling the . Word of God deceitfully, pr with a der ceitful Life an- " ftory would be incredible, if. it Were not related a by their, own Hiftorians, Their Leagues and. -w Treaties (the moft facred; Bands under Heaven) fays he, u were foon neglefted, and the' Spirit of " their Religion broke all before it. Indeed by thofe Writers of their own, who were jJye-Wit- nefles in that . Country^ a -Multitude of lnftances are given of the perfidious Treachery of the ¦SW:= nidrds, towards the poor unguarded Indians ; that shey invited the Chiefs of them on Shipboard, and B 2 th^fl f 20 A Sermon preach'd before the Society for the then (n) fetting Sail, carried them iti Tears and Out-cries from their Country, their Wives and Children : That they irtveigkd them to betray their Mines and their hidden Treafures, and yet at loft pour'd out their Blood, when they could maka> no new Difcovery : That they gave them fair Pro- mifes only tP delude them into Snares ; artd evert made Covenants and formal Leagues to bind the Savages, but not themfelves ; With a great deal more of abominable Falfhood in them. Howmg- ny Millions of thefe innocent Creatures were mur- der'd in cold Blood, and for Paftime fake, with all the Variety of Torments that the Devil could infpire into them ? How foon were the vaft Re gions of Mexico, New-Spain, Peru, Hifpaniola, Bra- feel, &c depopulated ? Above Twenty Millions of the poor harmlefs Inhabitants being put to Death in full Peace, &c. Oh, how did this hinder the Gof pel of Chrift in that Gentile World ! How did thofe poor Souls hate, and upbraid, and mock thofe deceitful Creatures called Chriftians ! Some pf. thofe Taunts and Revilings are told by thofe that ^ (n) Peter Martyr of Angleria, in his JJecads. of the Spanifh Difcoveries, tells us, That when a Spanifh Fleet came upon thofe Coafts, the King fent them Prefents; and when they came on Land, he friendly and honourably received rhem ; and being defirous to fee the Country thereabouts, he gave them Guards and Companions to conduct them. And wherever they went, the Inhabitants came forth with Prefents, as it were unto Gods. But what ? the Spaniards at length ^violated all the Laws of Hofpitality. For by Craft amrsivers fubtle Devices they fo praftifed, that on a Day many of them fhould come together to fee the Ships, lb that the Ships were filled with Beholders ; and as foon as they had them full of Men and Women, they brought them away Mourning into Servitude. So of Friends, they left all thole Countries Enemies, much incenfed, having taken the Children from the Parents, and the Husbands from the Wives. VII Dtcad. II Chap. p. ijo. Propagation of the Gofpel in Foreign Paris. 2 1 that heard 'em, and griev'd their (o) Hearts for them. ' , Some Men have poffibly profefs'd a Reformed Religion, and yet have given a like Scandal to the Heathens, by fome fuch bafe and vile Dealings with them. Oh it woundeth the Ears of all that love the Lord Jefus, to hear from abroad, that the Indians in themfelves had Simplicity and natu ral Sincerity ; but have fincc learn'd all the little Myfteries of deceitful Bargains from the Europeans, who began firft with impofing upon their Igno rance and Inadvertence : That thofe Heathens are moft upright and undefigning, among whom the Chriftian Traders never came: Nay, that thofe of them are beft difpos'd to receive Chriltianity, who have been the leaft acquainted with that Nnme. (p) B 3 It (o) The Spanifi Bifhop of Chiapa writes thus upon his own Experience. The Indians fcarce know what it is to take away one another's Goods ; They live, innocently by their Neighbours, without offering them any Violence or Oppreffion. And what Thoughts muft fuch People a? thefe have of thofe that call themfelves Chriftians, when they fee them commit all manner of Crimes and Villanies ; when they fee them guilty of fo much Injuftice an^l Treachery ; and in a Word, of all the Abominations of which Men thatare left of God, and have no Principle of Honour or ConfjbienCe, can be capable ? This makes many Indians laugh at the God we worfhip, and perfift 'obftinately in their Infi delity. Nay, they believe the God of the Chriftians to be the worft of Gods, becaufe his Worflupers ar.e the worft of. Men, &c. (p) As Captain Dumpier reports of the Nicobar Jflands, lying abput Fourty Leagues from Sumatra, where the Inhabitant's have ns certain Converfc with any Nation ; a Fryer, who had been by Chance* among them, gave a very good Cha racter of them, viz. That they were very honeft, civil, harmlefs People; that they were'not addicted to Quarrelling, - jhe'ft, or Murther ; that they did Marry, cr at leaft live as '*","-- ¦ " '¦; M»ji 2 2 A Sermon preach'' d before the Society for the It is Tome Matter pf Comfort, that We of this Corporation have acted w,ith no cunning Crafti- nefs of any Kind, nor have 'We laid in Wait to deceive any one Soul. We act' in the fair Dif- charge of an honourable Truft committed to us. Our Accounts are balanc'd to all the World; a nd what is remaining but our Peace of Confcience? We give no fecret Ihftructions to bur MiffibnarieSj as the Craftfmen of Rome dp -, but publifh them to all People; and they cannot but commend the Plainnefs and Sincerity of them- . Neither our own Peoplein thofe Parts, nor their African Slaves, jior their Indian Neighbours, have ought- to accufe us. of; at leaft we* have siven no juft Offence to the Gentiles there, nor tb the Church of God, (iCor. X- 32.) We truft; that we have not; finned againfi the Brethren, and have w,alked honeftly towards them that are without, ( 1 ThefT. I V- 1 2.) We gi ve our Money, pur Attendance, our Correfpondence, our feveral forts of Care, andPain^ and Trouble:' Forgive m this Wrong , if we have done any other, God do fo to us, and 'more alfo. > ; ' affl. The Fourth Hindrance in converting the fl Gentiles to the Gofpel of Chrift, is the exer- *' cifingof Force and Cruelty, inftead of the gentle f- persuading and convincing of them. If an honeft Pagan were to read oyer the GofpeJ of: Chrift, and confider with himfelf the whole" '< ' Te- Man an4 Wife ; one Man with one Woman, never changing fill Death made the" Separation. That they were punctual and honeft in performing their Bargains; and that they were inclined to, receive the Chriftian Religion. This Re lation (fays he) I had from theMouth of a Prieft at Tonquin, who told me that he receiv'd this Information from a Fryer that Captain Welderf brought away from one of thofe Iflandsi fyswPfyage, &C $. 477- Propagation of {he Gofpel] in Foreign Parts'' 2 f Mankind. And fo. indeed it is impofTiblej according to |he Gofpel of Chrift, the Gofpel of Peace and Love, in the Spirit of Meeknefs, and Forbearance, and Long-fuffering. Such was the Spirit of the firft Apoftles, as a neceffary Qualification fott them to go forth aid teach all Nations. For their Religion it felf had died at Jerufalem, if the Preachers had gone out with any Engines of Force and Violence to compel Men to come, into- it. But they were content to go forth as their Mafter fent them, as Sheep among Wolves, and innocent as Doves. They were Ambaffadors of Peace and glad Ti dings only ; and as to thofe who would not receive them, they were only to finale off the Dufi from their Feet, as a Teftimohy againft them. St. Paul put his Converts from Gentilifm in mind of his Tendernefs toward them. We were gentle among you, even as a Nurfe nourifiuth her Children, (i ThefT. II. 7.) And when he found it needful to exert fome- what of his fpiritual Authority, he fets, thefe Bounds to it, that it was given him for Edifibation, not for Deftrutfion, (2 Cor. X., 8.) The Spirit of Perfecution was then only in the Jews and Hear thens, and in the latter only upon a civil Account, for Fear of the publick Peace and Safety. For I &hpw not, that any Pagans from the Beginning of the World to this Day, did ever perfecute ' then- Fellow Pagans, for differing from them in meer Judgment aiid Opinion, 6r in outward Rites and Ceremonies of Worfhip. Not but that the Pagans might have had a better Plea- for the Perfecution of each other, nay, a better Pretence to perfecute the Chriftians, than the Chriftians could have to perfecute them, much . lefs their own Brethren -, B 4 tllc 24 A Sermon preach'd before the Society for the . ,— 1.. ¦' , ' I "—:¦'¦'¦'¦- ¦-—",. ¦¦¦¦ n— the One being guided only by the Law of Nature depraved, the Other by the Revelation of the'per- feft Will of God. Sure I am, that Chriftian Perse cutions were utterly unknown, till in the degene rate and difibiute Ages of the Church. Indeed Sk- bylpn the Mother of Harlots, was at laft to'be drunken with the Blood of the Saints, and with the Blood of the Martyrs of Jefus; and even that to be wonder d at (faith the Spirit) with great Admiration, (Revel. XVII- 6.) Thofe ftrange Things have been fulfilled in theft latter Times- The horrible Ways of converting the poor Indians, by the Bigots pf the Church bf Rome, would draw Tears, and make Hearts to bleed, at the Relation of them. The Accounts are incredibly great, that the Romanifts charge up on their own People in their firft Expeditions to jhat new World, (f) Men hunted down like Beafts, . and (?) This Relation is given by a Spanifh Bifhop fettled in thofe Parts. When1 the Spaniards firft Landed' in thclfles, there were above Five Hundred Souls ; they cut the Throats of a great part of thefe, and carried away the reft by Force, to make them work in the Mines of Hifpaniola. — — As for the Continent, 'tis certain, and what I my felf know to be true, that the Spaniard's have 'ruined Ten Kingdoms there "bigger than all Spain, by the Commiffion of all forts of Bar barity ^ and unheard of Cruelties. They have driven away or kill'd all the Inhabitants, fo that all thefe Kingdoms are defblate to this day. — - We dare aflert, Without fear of in curring the Reproach of exaggerating, That m the Space of pefe Fourty Years, in which the Spaniards excrcifed their intolerable Tyranny in this new World, they unjuftly put to Death above Twelve Millions &f People, counting Men, Wo men and Children. And it may be afKrnfd without Injury TP Truth, trodn a juft Calculation, Thfet during this Space b£ Time, above Fifty Millions have died in thefe Countries. They valued them Jefs, and treated them worfe than Beafts. >— r Tfrey- r'PP'd UP Women with Child, that Root and" Brapch may be deftroy'd together." They laid Wagers one u ""• " ' " • - '-'•"*¦ ¦ ¦ - - with Propagation pf the Gofpel in Foreign Parts. ? - 2nd devoured by the'Oags : Women and Children maimed, and hang'd, and burnt, in one and the fame W?y of Execution. Whole Iflands depopu lated with the moft various kinds of Death. Ci ties and Countries laid defolate with Fire and Sword. Such Ravage and Outrage committed by the Invaders, as if they had refolv'd to extirpate Mankind from that Part of the Face of the Eartji. And in both the Indies, they ftill keep up that Office of Hell, their Holy Incjuifition v (r) that En gine of Ignorance and Hypocrify to thofe that ef- cape it, and of Torture and Deftrudtion to thofe that fall by it : That Reproach of Religion and humane Nature, which fune of the Popjfh Coun tries are afham'd to admit of, and which will one Day deferve a Confederacy of all Chrjftian Bow ers, to root out and abolifh it for evep. We hope there is little Reafon to complain of any Cruelty or Force in our; Prote^a^t Plantations. The Severity of fome Matters to their S,laye§, and the with another who fhould cleave a Man down with his Sword moft dexteroufly at 'one Blow/ Or who fhould run a Man through after the moft artificial manner. They tore away Children out of their Mothers Arms, and dafh'd out their Brains againft the Rocks. Others they threw into the Ri vers; diverting them'felves with this brutifh Sport, tire. They fet' up Gibbets, and harig'd'up Thirteen' of thqfe poor Creatures in Hoinour to Jefus Chrift and his Twelve Apoftles, as they blafphemoufly exprefs'd themfelves; kindling a great Fire under thofe Gibbets, to burn thofe they had hang'd upon them, &c ' (r) Sep Th' Wftory of the Inefuifttiop, as it is exercis'd at Goa, written in French by the ingenious Monfieur Dellon, who la boured Five Years under thofe Severities^ with an Account of his Deliverance. T'ranflated into English, [by the Reve- rendMr.HeBr/ Wharton,]' London 1688. 4to. compar'd with A Difcovery and plain Declaration of fundry fubtil Practices of the Holy Inquijititm of Spain. Set forth in Latin by Reginald}* Ximfalvtt Mont aim, and lately tranllated, Lind. ^to. 1580, ; 2r5 • A Sermon preach'd before the Society for the the ^Inhumanity -laid to be, Shewn to fome. of the Indians inWar, are Matters of Grievance, ! that we hope will < be redrefs'd,- as .Chriltianity, by our ;Care3 fhall be farther planted' and improv'd among "them. Our Mi-ffionaries are charged ; to preach Peace and Love; (s) to exhort Matters to be gentle to their Slaves ; and all our People to -be kind and courteous to the Natives, as knowing that Charity and Companion .will moft effedually. promote the Gofpel of Chrift. ; « V. The Fifth and Laft Way I mentioned- of «' -hindering the' Gofpel among the Pagans, is. our fe fetting an ill Example of Loofenefs and Pro- f{ phanenefs, fo as to make our Preaching vain.. - The -great- Care of the Apoftles. was, for their Chriftian Converts ;to win over others by their good Gonverfationj or at leaft, to givethe Advetlary no occafioni to blafpheme. Fornothing inftructsthe 'ignorant like Life and Manners ;. in them there is a Life and Spirit that moves and actuates the Minds of People, by working on their very outward Senfes. ' But alas, bythe wrong Turn of humane Nature, ill Example is more taking and more pre valent than good, as meeting with corrupt Affe- ¦dtions more inclinable to it. Hence our Brethren abroad, who live in the midft of-Heathens, or on the Borders of them, fhould take infinite Care- to -give, no Ojfenpt to thofe Gentiles,' nor to take fuch '¦** per is) Proper Inftruftions were given tp the Commanders jn Sir John Ndrborough's Voyage td the South-Sea. — — Above all, for the tlonour of our Prince and Nation, you are to take Care that your Mten do riot by any rude Behaviour, or In juries to the Natives, create an Av'erfiW'iri them to the Englijh Nation ; but that oh the other fide, they endeavour to , gain their Love by kind and civil Ufage towards them. $ir John Narbcnuglfs fioyag'e, ivy. p. 1 1 . Propagation of the Gofpel in Foreign Parts. 27 pernicious Ways, as hy Reaftni of them', to have the Way of Truth evil fpoke'n of, (i Pet. II. 2.) Alas, all Preaching will be there empty and vain, if bur Chriftians fo called, ' fhall live there like Infidels, and even become worfethanlnfidels. It would be melancholy to recite the Complaints of fome of the more fober Writers in the Com munion of the Church of Rome, who 'Saw, the Wickednefs and Prophanerifefs of the Spaniards, in their firft PofTeflibn of America- (t) How they brought over new Vices, that were unknown" to the native Simplicity of thofe poor Souls ; and how they improv'd and raifed in them every Folly and Sin, to which they were before abandoned ; (tij and baptizing them as their Profelytes, in the ,. ',', grOlTeft: (t) The Spaniards (fays their Bifhop of Chiapa) have even debauched the Indians by the ill Example they have fet them, and taught them a great many Vices, they, never heard of before they tonverfed with the Spaniards: Such, as Oaths, and Blafphemies againft the Name of Chrift, the Practice of Extortion, Lying, and many other Sins that feem'd opp'o- fire to the fweet and peaceable Temper of thefe People. So that to leave thefe poor Indians under their Govern ment, is vifibly to expofc them to utter Deftruction, and to make them piiferable both in Soul and Body. Relat. 'of the Spanljh Cruelties, 8vo. p. 1:3. ¦* («) There was a Son of one of the Caciques, who, when he was a Boy, was in great Towardlinefs gnd Hope-, and fororriifed very confiderable Things;' but having the Misfor tune to have his Education among the Spaniards that came to* Convert the Countrey, he grew intolerably loofe and de- Dauch'd, and was as good as any of them all at any kind 6f Villany. Some of his Friends that perceived, this Change in him, and were forry for it, ask'd hirri one time how he came to grow fobad. Oh (fays he) / have been a Chriftian, and conversed "among 'I the Spaniards. I have learnt to Swear •by the Name of God, by the Crofs,'and by the Words of the Holy Gofpel. I have learnt to Game',, and Lye, and Diflem- ble ; I have put on a Sword by my Side too, to fight with art my Quarrels 5 and how I want nothing to be compleatly hke ?S A Sermon preach'd before the Society for the grofTeft Ignorance and Impenitence : (w) They made them, if poflible, twofold more the Children pf Hell than themfelves. Nor can we fuppreft the Complaints of this kind, againft too many of our own People in thofe Parts ; who are faid likewife to have taught the poor Indians fome Immoralities and Vices, not be fore fo mpch as named among them : Drunkennefs, an Abomination they never committed, till we fup- plied them with the Matter of it 5 Curfing and vain Swearing, their happy Language never regch'd unto, like them in my Converfation, but a Concubine, &c. See Dr. Harris'/ ColleB . of Voyages, Fol. Vol, t . p. 798. Nor were the Priefts better than the People : Metellus Sequanus, one of their own Writers, did affirm, That the King of Spain was once counfelled, that he fhould fuffer no more Priefts to go into America, becaufe of their unbridled and diffolute Li% See Dr. John White's Way to the True Church, Fol. p. 189. (w) Pet. Martyr gave this Account to the Pope himfelf, upon his own Experience ; That Egidiut Gonfalm, one of one Spanijh Governours in the Weil-Indiis, ufed to fend this Menage to the Indian Kings, That they fhould become Chri ftians, and be fubjecr to the great King of Spain; which if they refufed, they muft expect Violence and Deftruction j upon which moft of them would defire Peace and Baptifm. They conftrained another King to receive holy Baptifm with all his Houfhold, and fomewhat more than Five Thou* fand Men befides. VI.Decad. 3 Chap. p. 237. In the Accounts ofBraftle we are told, That many of the Indians bordering on the Portttgueze are made Chriftians by thern after their manner; that is, not inftrufted in the. Principles of the Chriftian Faith, but fprinkled with the Water of Baptifm. And even J. Acofta the Jefuit complained of his Fellow- Priefts, That they taught the Indians to "no purpofe, but twice or thrice a Week repeated to them the Creed and 3. few Prayers in the Spanijh Tongue, whereof they under- ftood not one Syllable ; and fometimes pretended to a fore pf Form of Carechifm in the Indian Language, without ex- plaining it, or examining the Party what he learnt. So a$ their Teaching ( fays he ) is but a Jeft and a Shadow, like the Singing of a Song to get Money. I I ' , I I I II I \ Prdpagdtion of the Gofpel in Foreign Parts. 29 Unto, till we eririch'd it with Oaths and Blafphe mies; befideS the Pride pf Apparel, the Arts of Gaming, the new Devices of Luxury and Avarice, and fome other Vanities and Sins which, they had never attained to, but by the Imitation of Strangers, (x) Our only Hopes and Prayers are, that thefe Of fences will be lefTen'd by the Care of thofe Labour ers whom we fend into that Vineyard, under the Lord of it ; efpecially if Difcipline and Epifcopal Government ( y) can there be fettled, to coifipleat the Face of Decency and Order. To (x) A Letter from one of our Miffionaries at Rye, January 9. 1707-8. complain d of the Indians juftifying their Infideli ty by the Immoralities of the Engliih. I have taken (fays he) fome Pains to teach fome of the Native Indians, but to no- purpofe. For they feem regardlefs of Inftru&ion. And when I have told them of the evilConfequences of their hard Drinking, &c. they replied, that Engltfi Men did the fame ; and that it is not fo great a Sin in an Indian, as in anEnglijh Man; becaufe the Englifh Man's Religion forbids it, but an Indians does not. They further fay, they will not be Chriftians, nor do they fee the Neceffity for lb being ; becaufe we do not live according to the Precepts of our Re ligion. In fuch Ways do' moft of the Indians that I have convers'd with, either here or elfewhere, exprefs them- felves. (y) In the laft Addrefs of this Society to the Queen's moft Excellent Majefty are thefe Words. We cannot but take this Opportunity further to reprefent to Your Majefty, with the greateft Humility,' the earneft and repeated Defires not only of the Miflionaries, but of divers other confidera- ble Perfons that are in Communion with our Excellent Church, to have a Bifhop fettled in Your American Planta tions, which we humbly conceive to be very ufeful and neceflary for Eftablifhing the Gofpel in thole Patts, that they may be better united among themfelves than at pre- lent they are, and more abje to withftand the Defigns of their Enemies ; that there may be Confirmations, which in their preferit State they cannot have the Benefit of; and that an eafie and fpeedy Caje may be taken of all the other Af- 2 o A Sermon preach 'd before the Society for the To conclude,: take; we Heed left any pf us fre found by any means to be Hinderers pf the Qpfpej of 'Chrift. ^Tjberg^was a dreadfuj Woe given put pf; pur Lord'sapwni;iylonthj , upon thofe who fhu,t up .the. Kingdom of Heaven agajnft others ; and would neither /o in themfelves, nor fuffer them that w.epe-wtring to gpjn\ or as another Evangelift, fo/w- dfrd'them \"from going in, (Matt. X.XIII. 13.) But.it will : 'be. too little to bepaffive only,' and not to, hin der this Work- of -the Lord;. .We muft bear our Teftimony arid Burden in the doing of it, -in the forwarding and promoting the Knowledge of Sal vation in thofe Parts cpmmittect to us; I fay, com mitted to us All : For as the firft Difcovery of thofe Northern T rafts in America, was owing to the Enq-lifa Crown, (z.) which thereby .became kiftly AfMrs of the Church, which is much increased in thofe Parts, and, to which, through your Majefties gracious Bro- tefckion and Encouragement, we truft that yet a greater Ad dition will daily be made. We humbly pray leave to add, that we are inform'd'thVj^wwfc have receiv'd feveral., great Advantages frorn their Eftablifhing a Bijhop at Quebec. : («.) The Author of a Difcourfe ofspanifh Practices, tendred to king James, Anno 1623. 4to.*anerts his Majefty's Title, to. the" whole Continent of America, by virtue of the firft Difcovery of it, in thefe Words, p. 36. I can prove your Majefty, by virtue of your Grand-Father of famous Memory Henry VIL to be. as rightful Heir to-all the firm Land of the Weft-Indies, as the King of Spain is to, the Iflands of Cub^.&ni Hifpaniel*. For the Captains of tienry VII. being Scbaftian Cpbot and his Companions, difcover'd the Continent, on the North-part of America,.i from 60 degrees coafting the North Latitude, the very- year before Columbus difcover'd the High-Land on the South-part of the Indies, and took.Pofleffion of that new Diicpvery , in the Name of King Henry VII. their Lord and Mafter, and his Sueceilbrs. So that if firft Difcovery. and Poffeffion be the King of Spain's Title, your Majefty preced ing him in the faidTitle, muft neceflariiy precede him in tlie Right thereof. : See a Treatife of Mr. Robert Thorn" 'to Dr. Ley, Ambaflador of King Henry VIII. to the Emperour Charles V. Propagation of th& Gofpel in foreign Parts* ri '""' """ '11 ¦¦!¦*¦'¦¦ " " wiiiiwhii n ¦¦¦ni.^^ii t; ¦laV M(J|< intijtjed ,tp them ; ft> it feem'd a Declaration of Pro-? vidence, that hereby a great'IDoor ¦ and effee fpbkenof for a- *) Remettiberj, that 'when the* Goffel vf the Kingdom Mfre&cfid'in Al tye World, for k Witnefs unto, all Nations, then ftial'l the,uEnd come, ,;(Matjth. XX^V. r'4.) aftd before the Spnvf Man fhall he gathered ait Nations. ; and' then they who fed hungry Souls, aM clqathect ..jthe Na%d, and rro^-?'w- ^Strangers, and :vifiiedfth