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A94301	Ievves in America, or, Probabilities that the Americans are of that race. With the removall of some contrary reasonings, and earnest desires for effectuall endeavours to make them Christian. / Proposed by Tho: Thorovvgood, B.D. one of the Assembly of Divines.	Thorowgood, Thomas, d. ca. 1669.	1650 (1650)	Wing T1067; Thomason E600_1; ESTC R206387	111,535	185

could they else report the manner of their comming into the promised Land they affirme there is one chiefe God who hath been from all eternity by whom the lesser Gods were made who became Assistants in the Fabrick and Government of the World as some of the Rabbins also called the Angells Con-Creators with God to whom the Lord did say Let us make man in our Image c. Gen. 1. 26. The Indians judge the Sunne Moone and Starres to be living creatures a thing a so avowed in the Jewish Talmud shewing it to be a thing easie enough for the Heavens to declare the glory of God Psalme 19. 1. seeing they have understanding soules as well as men and Angels they say of themselves that they be strangers and came from another Countrey M●●●…s before named doth not onely averre that many learned men in Brasile take the Natives to be Jewes but that they themselves taught by a most ancient Tradition acknowledge their fore-fathers to be of that linage and Peter Martyr hath from them also such a kinde of assertion And now whereas some conceive the ten Tribes to be either shut up beyond the Caspian Mountaines whence they could not get out though they begged leave of Alexander the Great yet the way was made miraculously unpassable against them as the same Comester relateth Others suppose them to be utterly lost and if once so 't is probable in the opinion of some that they are to be found in America Acosta acknowledgeth this to be the judgement of divers to which he is not onely adverse himselfe but endeavours to answer their Arguments as will be shewd hereafter to these conjectures of the Natives let this Chapter bee concluded with the judgements of two others that have reason for what they say the first is Emanuel de Moraes forespoken of affirming those of Brasile to be Judaicall First because those Brasilians marrie into their owne Tribe and Kindred Secondly Their Manner is also to call their Uncles and Ants Fathers and Mothers Thirdly they are given much to mourning and teares in their Funerall solemnities And last of all they both have Garments much alike The next is Master R. Williams one of the first if not the first of our Nation in New England that learned the Language and so prepared towards the Conversion of the Natives which purpose of his being knowne hee was desired to observe if hee found any thing Judaicall among them c. He kindly answers to those Letters from Salem in New England 20th of the 10th moneth more than ten yeers since in hac verba Three things make me yet suspect that the poore natives came from the southward and are Jewes or Jewish quodammodo and not from the Northern barbarous as some imagine 1. Themselves constantly affirme that their Ancestors came from the southwest and thither they all goe dying 2. They constantly and strictly separate their women in a little Wigwam by themselves in their feminine seasons 3. And beside their God Kuttand to the south-west they hold that Nanawitnawit a God over head made the Heavens and the Earth and some tast of affinity with the Hebrew I have found CHAP. III. Second Conjecture THe rites fashions ceremonies and opinions of the Americans are in many things agreeable to the custome of the Jewes not onely prophane and common usages but such as be called solemn and sacred Common and prophane Customes in both alike 1 The Indians weare garments fashioned as the Jewes a single coate a square little cloake they goe barefoot if you should aske a man of Brasile what vestment would please him best he would answer presently a long cloake the habit of the Jewes and this may seem no light consideration to such as minde Seneca's confidence that the Spaniards planted themselves in Italy for they have the same kind of covering on their heads and shooes for their feet 2 They constantly annoint their heads as did the Jewes also Luk. 7. 46. 3. They doe not onely pride themselves with eare-rings but their noses are borcd also and have jewells hanging on them which they call Caricori like that is read Esa 3. 20 21. 4. In all India they wash themselves often twice or thrice in the day and the women in Brasile ten times saith Lerius and the Jewes were frequent in this Mar. 7. 3 4. Io. 2. 6. 5. They delight exceedingly in dancing men and women yea and women apart by themselves and so they did in Israell Exod. 13. 20. 1 Sam. 21. 11 12. and thus especially after victories and overthrows of enemies which is found also Iud. 11. 34. Iud. 21. 21. 23. 1 Sam. 18. 6 7. 6. As the Jewes were wont to call them fathers and mothers that were not their naturall parents so the Indians give the same appellation to Unkle and Aunts 7. In America they eate no swines flesh t is hatefull to them as it was among the Jewes Levit. 11. 7. Esa 66. 15. 8. They wash strangers feet and are very hospitall to them and this was the known commendation of old Israell 9. The Indians compute their times by nights an use which Laet confesseth they had from the Hebrews they reckon by lunary rules giving the same name to their moneths they do to the Moon Tona 10. Virginity is not a state praise-worthy among the Americanes and it was a bewaileable condition in Iury Iud. 11. 37. 11. The Natives marry within their owne kindred and family this was Gods command to his people Num. 36. 7. 12. The Indian women are easily delivered of their children without Midwives as those in Exod. 1. 19. 13. They wash their infants newly born and this you finde also Ezek. 16. 9. 14. In faeminine seasons they put their women in a Wigwam by themselves t for which they plead nature and tradition another writes expresly such kind of purification they have as had the Jewes 15. The widdow marrieth the brother of the deceased Husband which was also Moses law Mat. 22. 24. 16. Dowries for wives are given by the Indians as Saul enjoyned David 1 Sam. 18. 25. 17. The husband hath power over the adulterous wife to turne her away with disgrace they have also other causes of divorce as was in Israel Mat. 8. 19. 18. They nurse their owne children even the Queenes in Peru and so did the mothers in Israel 19. The husbands come not at their wives till their children be weaned a such an use is read Hos ●8 and at Pera if they be forced to weane them before their time they call such children Ainsco i. e bastards 20. Among the Indians they punish by beating and whipping and the Sachims if they please put offendors to death with their owne hands and secretly sometimes send out an executioner as Mark 6. 27. 2 Cor. 11. 25.

Wigwam before company To what Nation Iesus Christ came first and when If a man should be inclosed in iron a foot thicke and thrown into the fire what would become of his soul would it come forth thence Why did not God give all men good hearts How long is it before men believe that have the word of God made knowne unto them How they should know when their faith and prayers bee good Why did not God having all power kill the devill that made all men so bad If we be made so weake by sinne in our hearts how can wee come before God and sanctifie a sabbath They propounded three cases about the Sabbath In the exercises besides prayer for a blessing Mr. Elliot doth four things 1. He catechizeth the children and youth by which the aged learne 2. He preacheth out of some Scripture plainely and briefely 3. If there be cause admonition follows 4. They aske us questions and we answer them Some cases and admonitions are there mentioned 1. Wampoonas upon a light occasion beat his wife for this hee was brought before the Assembly where the quality of the sinne was opened as against Gods command cruelty to his owne body c. hee turned his face to the wall and wept hee was so penitent and melting that all forgave him but the Indians would have his fine notwithstanding his repentance which he paid also willingly Another case of was of Cutshamaquin a Sachim who had a son fourteen or fifteen yeeres old hee was drunk and behaved himselfe disobediently against his father and mother they rebuked him but he despised their admonition hee was brought before the Assembly stood out a long time though his father for his example confessed his owne faults the young man still persisted divers of us called upon him to acknowledge his offence against his parents and entreat their forgivenesse yet he refused the Indians also affectionately put him on divers spake one after another and some severall times at last hee humbled himselfe confessed his sinne and asked forgivenesse of his father taking him by the hand at which his father burst into teares he did the same to his mother who wept also as did divers others and many English wept also the house was filled with weeping wee went to prayer all the time thereof the Sachim wept so abundantly that the boord hee stood upon was all dropt with his teares Some questions were after this propounded An old Powoow asked Why we had not taught them to know God sooner Another said Before he knew God he was well but since I have knowne God and sin I finde my heart full of sin Whether their children goe when they die because they have not sinned If any of them shall goe to heaven seeing their hearts are so full of sin especially Nanwunwudsquas mad after women If they leave Powawing and pray to God what shall they doe when they are sicke having no skill in Physick What shall we say to such Indians as oppose our praying unto God and believing in Christ what get you say they by this you goe naked still and are as poore as we our corne is as good as yours and we take more pleasure then you c. They bring their cases to Mr. Elliot A Law is now among them against gaming other Indians demand their old debts which they refuse to pay because it was a sinne to play and they must not pay such sinnefull debts They tooke it to heart when Mr. Elliot told them he was afraid they were weary and cooled in their love to religion and enquired when they did heare and pray aright how they might know when they were weary of them what time it might be before the Lord might come and make them know him c. some other cases were moved by them A man before hee knew God had two wives the first is barren the second brought forth sweet children which of these must hee put away if the former they offended God if the latter they illegitimate their owne deare children And a Squaw leaves her husband commits adultery with remote Indians heares the word repents and returnes to her husband still unmarried is not he bound to receive her An old widdow Squaw said if when men know God God loves them why then are any afflicted after they know him Mr. Elliot preaching upon Ephes 5. 11. Have no fellowship c. They asked what Englishmen thought of him because he came among the wicked Indians and taught them Another said Suppose two men sin one knowes it the other doth not will God punish both alike Againe If a wise Indian teach good things to other Indians should not he be as a father or brother to such One Tutaswampe prayed at the buriall of an Indian child with such zeale variety of gracious expressions and abundance of tears that the woods rang with their sighs and prayers the Englishman that heard him said hee was ashamed of himselfe and some others that have had so great light but want such good affections Third Treatise THat woman that propounded the first question according to appointment by another man 2. Treatise p. 6. hujus p. 4. moved this also When my heart prayeth with my husband praying is this praying to God aright This woman kept at home learned quickly to spinne well held her children to labour after she submitted to the Gospel her life was exemplary she died of a sicknesse taken in childbed Mr. Elliot visited her severall times prayed with her asked her about her spirituall estate she said she still loved God though he made her sicke and was resolved to pray unto him as long as she lived and to refuse Powawing shee believed God would pardon all her sinnes because Jesus Christ dyed for her that God was well pleased in him that she was willing to die believed shee should goe to heaven and live happy with God and Christ of her owne accord she called her children and said to them I shall now die and when I am dead your grandfather grandmother and Unkles c. will send for you to live among them and promise you great matters but I charge you doe not believe them live not among them for they pray not to God keepe not the Sabbath commit all manner of sinnes and are not punisht but I charge you live here for they pray to God his word is taught sins are supprest and punish'd by lawes therefore I charge you live here all your daies she died and it fell out as she said T is observed many other Indians would come in but they have neither tooles nor skill to sence in their grounds if the word were constantly taught government exercised encouragements for the industrious with meanes to instruct them in letters trade and labour as building fishing flax hemp c. many well-minded Indians would thus be drawne together Mr. Elliot stirres up

command of our Mohanes these are their Sorcerers wee went as Souldiers towards those parts where thou hast seen thy Brethren to wage warre with them and of all those that entred there not one came backe againe alive wee made a great Armie and entring into his lands all fell downe dead so that not one escaped at last wee raised another Army for the making of which the Countrey was dispeopled wholly so that none but old men women and children remained therein which came to an end as the former had done which those who remained alive and were not gone to that warre perceiving said that the Mohanes had deceived them and were the cause of the death of their Fathers for which they deserved to be put to death having then killed many of them those that remained alive did intreat them to hearken to them and they would discover to them all the truth of that which they knew which having gotten leave declared that which followeth The God of these sonnes of Israel is the true God all that is written in his stories is true they shall be Lords of all the world in the latter end a people shall come hither which will bring many things to you and when the land shall be well provided these sonnes of Israel shall goe out of their habitations and shall become Lords of all the earth as it was theirs before if you will be happy joyne your selves to them The Indian having made an end to relate the prediction of the Mohanes followed on his discourse after this manner My Fathers were Caciques and there are yet four of them These 5 Caciques then having heard what the Mohanes had foretold as if they had been some of the Sages of the Hebrewes came and tooke their habitation neere that place to see if they could get acquaintance with some of thy Brethren They satisfied their desire after a long time by the intercession of an Indian woman because thy Brethren would never speake to our Fathers and he of us that went into their Lands did fall downe dead and none of thy Brethren did passe over to us we therefore made a League with them by the meanes of that woman under these conditions First that five men sonnes to five Caciques or their successors should come to visit them every seventy Moones and that none should come with them Secondly that the man to whom the secret was to be declared should be three hundred Moones old and that nothing of this should be revealed to him in a place inhabited but only in the open field and when it should be revealed that it should be in the company of all the Caciques thus then said the Indian wee keepe this secreet amongst us for the great reward which wee hope for the innumerable services which wee have done to thy Brethren Wee cannot go to see them but from seventy to seventy Moones if no new thing fall out there hath not been any in my time except thy arrivall which they have so much desired and waited for I finde no more but three new things according to my reckoning the first the arrivall of the Spaniards in these Countries the second that Ships arrived in the South sea and the third is thy arrivall Of all three they have greatly rejoyced for they say that the Prophecies do come to passe Moreover the said Monterinos declared that afterward hee came to Honda where the said Indian did bring to him three Indian young men not telling him their names till hee told him that hee might speake freely with them seeing they were his companions whith whom hee was in league and that the other namely the fift was old and for that cause was not able to come The three Indians did imbrace him affectionately and asked him of what Nation hee was to whom hee answered that hee was of the Hebrew Nation of the Tribe of Levi and then they imbraced him the second time and said to him Thou shalt see us one day and shalt not know us wee are thy Brethren by a speciall favour which God hath shewed us and having saluted him they went away the Indian Francis bid him also farewell and that hee went to speak with his Brethren in the company of the other Caciques As concerning this Countrey wee have all the Indians at our command and when wee shall have made an end of these cruell Spaniards wee shall goe and draw you out of the slavery wherein you are if it please God which he will permit because his word cannot faile Finis Laus Deo I Manasseh Ben Israel underwritten beare w●tnesse that this present paper hath been coppied with the whole truth of the originall and that the Author Monterinos is a vertous man and separate from all manner of worldly interests and that hee swore in my presence that all that which he declared was a truth MANASSEH BEN ISRAEL J. DVRY Received this at London 27 of Novem. 1649. The Reader is entreated with his pen to amend these mistakes of the Presse IN the Epistle Dedicatory remove the note at the bottome of the Margin in the third page of b to the second line of the next page Page 5. line 12. read Comestor p. 16. l. 19. r. and uneasie p. 18. l. 3. r. è contra p. 21. 1. Witekind in the margent p. 21. l. 16. r. they were p. 22. l. 23. r. Maternus p. 24. l. 19. r. records indeed p. 32. l. last r. thou p. 49. l. 28. r. Israel was p. 50. l. 8. adde should so farre and so suddenly degenerate p. 6. l. 32. r. converting p. 76. l. 31. r. for our the. p. 80. l. 20. r. your charity p. 93. l. 13. r. Leitourgy and l. 15. r. pray that p. 93. l. 15. r. holy Spirit Our books tell us p. 107. l. 30. r. too late p. 118. l. 11. r. hujus p. 113. p. 126. l. 4. r. 16 c. p. 136. l. 12. r. their lands D. Laert. p. 381. D. Heins in 2. Jo. Hesych φ Io. Maj. Hist Scot. l. 4. c. 9. Sixt. Sen. Bib. S. l. 2. R. p. 97. Wollet Comp. Theol. p. 197. Part. 1. T. 1. Ep. p. 105. lib. 5. c. 8. Nehem 3. 5. 2 Sam. 20 19. Phil. 2. 21. 1 Cor. 13. last Act. 2. 1. Psa 19. 4. Revel 6. 2. Esa 49. 6. De excid Brit. In Bal. Cent. p. 23. Hist l. 1. c. 8. p. 25. Rev. 13. 3. C. 5. 123. Not. in Bed Hist p. 257. Par● 3. Esa 43. 19. K. Theodoric Theodob●rt Clotharius Qu. Brunechild of France and to Aldibert and Aldiberga of England Concil p. 71. Holinsh Chro. part 1. p. 15. Kent Mercia West-Saxons Northumberland East-Angles East-Saxons South-Saxons Deut. 12 8. 2 Pet. 1. 19. 2 Cor. 11. 14. Psal 46. 3. Psal 27. 3. 〈◊〉 8. 12. Act. 7. 56. Tertull. 2 Cor. 5. 7. Job 14. 14. 1 Joh. 2. 18. Heb. 10. 37. Mat. 3. 12. Psal 1. 5. 1 Cor. 4. 5. 2 Thes 2. 17. 3. 3. Heb. 13. 17. Tim. 4.