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we ought to show a tenderness for these heathens 

 under the weight of infidelity ; let us cherish their 

 good deeds, and, with mildness and clemency, 

 make them sensible and forwarn them of their ill 

 ones ; let our dealings be just to them in every 

 respect, and show^ no ill example, whereby they 

 may think we advise them to practise that which 

 we will not be conformable to ourselves. Let 

 them have cheap penniworths, without guile in 

 our trading with them, and learn them the mys- 

 teries of our handicrafts, as well as our religion, 

 otherwise we deal unjustly by them. But it is 

 higlily necessary to be brought in practice, which 

 is, to give encouragement to the ordinary people, 

 and those of a low^er rank, that they might marry 

 with these Indians, an(J come into plantations, and 

 houses, where so many acres of land and some 

 gratuity of money, out of a public stock, arc given 

 to the new married couple ; and that the Indians 

 might have encouragement to send their children 

 apprentices to proper masters, that would be kind 

 to them and make them masters of a trade, where- 

 by they would be drawn to live amongst us, and 

 become members of the same eclesiastical and 

 civil government w^e are under ; then we should 

 have great advantages to make daily conversions 

 amongst them, when they saw that we were kind 

 and just to them in all our dealings. Moreover, 

 by the Indians marrying with the christians, and 

 coming into plantations with their English hus- 

 bands, or wives, they would become christians. 



