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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. On or about the year of our Lord, 1710: a Swedish missionary preached a sermon at an Indian-treaty held at Canastogoe in Pensylvania: in which sermon he set forth original sin, the necessity of a mediator, and endeavoured by certain arguments to induce 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, and desires them to furnish him with arguments to confute such strong reasoning of the Indian