A Speech, deliver'd by an Indian chief, in reply to a sermon preached by a Swedish missionary, in order to convert the Indians to the Christian religion.
Subtitle: On or about the year of our Lord, 1710; a Swedish missionary preached a sermon at an Indian-treaty held at Canastogoe in Penyslvania: in which sermon he set forth original sin, the necessity of a mediator, and endeavoured by certain arguments to enduce the Indians to embrace the Christian religion. After he ended his discourse, one of the Indian chiefs made a speech in reply to the sermon; and the discourses on both sides were made known by interpreters. The missionary upon his return to Sweden, published his sermon; and the Indian's answer. Having wrote them in Latin, he dedicates them to the University of Upsal [sic], and desires them to furnish him with arguments to confute such strong reasoning of the Indian
Contributors: Aurén, Jonas, d. 1713
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 39635a
Publisher: Printed by Andrew Bradford?
Published: 1741
Place of publication: [Philadelphia?
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Religion
Other titles: Speech, delivered by an Indian chief, in reply to a sermon ..
Notes: The Swedish missionary was Jonas Aurén, whose letter from Conestoga of Jan. 13, 1699/1700, including the Indian speech, was printed in Latin in Grönwall, Anders, praeses. ... Dissertatio gradualis, de plantatione ecclesiae Svecanae in America, quam ... sistit Tobias E. Biörck. Upsaliae, [1731]

The text of the Indian chief's speech appears in the American magazine for March 1741, printed at Philadelphia by Andrew Bradford. It is there stated that the sermon and speech were delivered about 1690, and that the Indian chief's speech "we happened to meet with in a Latin book lately publish'd in Sweden, entitled the History of the Swedish Church in America."

Bristol supplies the imprint [Philadelphia: A. Bradford, 1715]. It seems unlikely, however, that the present edition was printed before 1741

Text in two columns

Bristol B494

Shipton & Mooney 39635a

Digital image available in the Readex/Newsbank Digital Evans series

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 39635a)