A key into the language of America, or, An help to the language of the natives in that part of America called New-England together with briefe observations of the customes, manners and worships, &c. of the aforesaid natives, in peace and warre, in life and death : on all which are added spirituall observations, generall and particular, by the authour ... / by Roger Williams ...
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A key into the language of America, or, An help to the language of the natives in that part of America called New-England together with briefe observations of the customes, manners and worships, &c. of the aforesaid natives, in peace and warre, in life and death : on all which are added spirituall observations, generall and particular, by the authour ... / by Roger Williams ...
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Williams, Roger, 1604?-1683.
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London :: Printed by Gregory Dexter,
1643.
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Narragansett Indians.
Narragansett language.
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"A key into the language of America, or, An help to the language of the natives in that part of America called New-England together with briefe observations of the customes, manners and worships, &c. of the aforesaid natives, in peace and warre, in life and death : on all which are added spirituall observations, generall and particular, by the authour ... / by Roger Williams ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A66450.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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descriptionPage 143
Generall Observations of their Mariage.
God hath planted in the Hearts of the Wildest of the sonnes of Men, an High and Honourable esteeme of the Mariage bed, in somuch that they universally submit unto it, and hold the Violation of that Bed, Abo∣minable, and accordingly reape the Fruit thereof in the abundant increase of posterity.
More Particular.
When Indians heare that some there are,(That Men the Papists call)Forbidding Mariage Bed and yet,To thousand VVhoredomes fall:
They aske if such doe goe in Cloaths,And whether God they know?And when they heare they're richly clad,know God, yet practice so.
No sure they're Beasts not men (say they,)Mens shame and foule disgrace,Or men have mixt with Beasts and so,brought forth that monstrous Race.
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