Magnalia Christi Americana

IT was not long ago, as about the middle of the former Century, that under the Influences of that admirable Hero and Martyr, of the Proteftant Religion, Gafper Coligni, the great Admiral of France, a Noble and Learned Knight called Villagagnon, began to attempt the Settlement of fome Colonies in A- M E R I C A, (as it was declared) for the Propagation of that Religion. He Sailed with feveral Ships of no fmall Burthen, till he arriv’d at Brafile; where he thought there were nowfhown him Quiet Seats, for the retreat of a rican Strand. It is the mofi Incomparable De People harrafs’d already with deadly Ferfecu- 1 Thou, the Honourable President of the Parliaiions and threat ned with yet more Calamities, ment at Paris, an Hiftorian whom Cafaubon Pronounces, A Singular Gift of Heaven, to the laft Age, for an Example of Piety and Probity, that is our Author, (befides others) for this Hifiory.

’Tis now time for me to tell my Reader, that in our Age there has been another Elf ay, made OTE- Ain this of ours, Ne me Crifpini fcrinia lecli, compitafle putes: And as for the People that /laid behind, no other can be ‘Learned, but that they are entirely loft, either in Paganifm or Diiafter: In this, more unhappy Jure, than that Hundred Thoufand of their Brethren who were’ foon after Butcher d at Home, in that horrible Malfacre, which then had not, but fince hath, known a Parallel. So has there been utterly loft in a little time, A Country intended for a Receptacle of Proteftant Churches on the A>nefhence he wrote Home Letters unto that glorious Patron of the Reform’d Churches, to inform him, That he had now a fair Prcfpefi of feeing thofe Churches eretted, multiply d and fhelterd in the Southern Regions of the New World; and requefted him, That Geneva might fupply “them with Pallors for the planting of I not by French, but by Englifli P R fuch Churches in thefe New Plantations. ThelST AN T S, to fill a certain Country fuch -