A new discovery of a vast country in America . o let us beborn of Parents illuminated with the bright Rays of theChriftian Faith, in a Country where we are betimes formedto Piety, and all manner of Vertues; where the multitude ofinteriour Graces and exteriour Helps prefent us the meansto fecure our Salvation, if we be faithful. We ought to give him the Glory that is due to him forthe excellent Lights we have received, and which diftinguifhus fo advantageoufly from fo many Nations who are in theDarknefs of Error and Blindnefs. This ought to oblige usto make our Eledlion fure by all forts of goo
A new discovery of a vast country in America . o let us beborn of Parents illuminated with the bright Rays of theChriftian Faith, in a Country where we are betimes formedto Piety, and all manner of Vertues; where the multitude ofinteriour Graces and exteriour Helps prefent us the meansto fecure our Salvation, if we be faithful. We ought to give him the Glory that is due to him forthe excellent Lights we have received, and which diftinguifhus fo advantageoufly from fo many Nations who are in theDarknefs of Error and Blindnefs. This ought to oblige usto make our Eledlion fure by all forts of good Works, fet-ting before our Eyes the account we mufl one day give be-fore the dreadful Tribunal of God, of the ufe we have madeof all his Graces and Benefits. issued (Dec. 19, 1672) by the Congregation of the Propaganda, and enforced by abrief (Apr. 6, 1673) of Pope Clement X, forbidding the publication (without writtenpermission from the Congregation) of any books about missions. See Jes. Relations,especially Iv, pp. 315, 316.— Ed. Pil 61. •^luAc ^ A Voyage into North America. 589 [161] CHAP. XXXVI. The Hiflory of the Irruption which the Englifli made into Canadain the Tear 1628. The taking of Quebec, the Metropolis ofCanada, in the Tear 1629. The mofl honourable Treatmentthey gave the Recolets. I THOUGHT my felf obliged to publiih the Obfervationswhich I have drawn from the Reverend Father Valentinele Roiix, Provincial Commiffary of our Recolets of Canada,who is a Man of fingular Merit. I have told you in my firftVolume, that I communicated to him my Journal of theDifcovery I made of all the River of Mefchafipi. This Man,who has a deep and piercing Judgment, has publifhed whathe knows of the Intrigues of Canada under a borrowedName^; and he fhews in his Work, that the Condu6l ofProvidence is always admirable, and that fhe accomplifhesher Defigns by ways impenetrable, in their Beginning, in theirProgrefs, and in their Perfedtion. The Colony of New France, fays this cl
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