Modern heathens
As gross and palpable are the works of the devil among many (if not all) of the modern heathens. The natural religion of the Greeks, Cherokees, Chickasaws, and all other Indians bordering on our southern settlements (not of a few single men, but of entire nations) is to torture all their prisoners from morning to night, till at length they roast them to death; and upon the slightest undesigned provocation to come behind and shoot any of their own countrymen. Yes, it is a common thing among them for the son, if he thinks his father lives too long, to knock out his brains; and for a mother, if she is tired of her children, to fasten stones about their necks and throw three or four of them into the river, one after another.
1771 text
9. *As gross and palpable are the works of the devil, among many (if not all) the modern Heathens. The natural religion of the Greeks, Cherokees, Chicasaws, and all other Indians, bordering on our southern settlements (not of a few single men, but of entire nations) is, to torture all their prisoners from morning to night, till at length they roast them to death; and upon the slightest, undesigned provocation, to come behind and shoot any of their own countrymen. Yea, it is a common thing among them, for the son, if he thinks his father lives too long, to knock out his brains: and for a mother, if she is tired of her children, to fasten stones about their necks, and throw three or four of them into the river, one after another.
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Catalogue & scope
Sermon 38 in the 1771 Works. Mark 9:38-39.
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