Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	day_n	good_a	lord_n	2,726	5	3.8026	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39231	Nevv Englands first fruits in respect, first of the conversion of some, conviction of divers, preparation of sundry of the Indians, 2. of the progresse of learning in the colledge at Cambridge in Massacusets Bay : with divers other speciall matters concerning the country.		1643 (1643)	Wing E519; ESTC R1260	19,229	28

and like to be miserable for ever unlesse free Grace should prevent it and after this grew very carefull of her carriage proved industrious in her place and so continued Another often frequenting the House of one of the Ministers at Salem would tell him the Story of the Bible even to his admiration and that he attended upon the Word preached and loved it and how he could tell all the Commandements and in particular each Commandement by it selfe and how he laboured to keep them all and yet for all this said he Me are and walke in fire that is when I die I must to Hell That Minister asked him why he answered because I know not Iesus Christ and pray'd him earnestly to teach him Iesus Christ and after went out amongst the Indians and called upon them to put away all their wives save one because it was a sinne against English-mans Saviour Another Indian comming by and seeing one of the English who was remote from our jurisdiction prophaning the Lords day by felling of a tree said to him Doe ●ou not know that this is the Lords day in Massaqusetts much machet man that is very wicked man what breake you Gods Day The same man comming into an house in those parts where a man and his wife were chiding and they bidding him sit downe he was welcome he answered He would not stay there God did not dwell there Ho●●mock that is the Devill was there and so departed One of the Sagamores having complaint made to him by some of the English that his men did use to kill Pigeons upon the Lords day thereupon forbad them to doe so any more yet afterwards some of them did attempt it and climbing the high trees upon which Pigeons in that Countrey use to make their nests one of them fell down from off the tree and brake his neck and another fell down and brake some of his limbs thereupon the Sagamore sent two grave old men to proclaime it amongst his Indians that none of them should kill Pigeons upon the Sabboth day any more Another Indian hearing of the fame of the English and their God came from a far to see them and such was this mans love to the English and their wayes after he came acquainted with them that he laboured to transform himselfe into the English manners and practises as if he had been an English man indeed he would be called no more by his Indian name but would be named William he would not goe naked like the Indians but cloathed just as one of our selves he abhorred to dwell with the Indians any longer but forsaking all his friends and Kindred dwelt wholly with us when he sate downe to meat with us if thanks were given before he came in or if he did eat by himselfe constantly he would give thanks reverently and gravely he frequented the word and family duties where he came and gat a good measure of knowledge beyond ordinary being a man of singular par●s and would complaine that he knew not Christ and without him he said all he did was nothing hee was so zealous for the Lords day that as it was observed if he saw any profaning it he would rebuke them and threaten them to carry them to the Governour All which things weighed we dare not but hope that many of them doe belong to the Kingdome of God and what further time may produce we leave it to him that is excellent in Counsell and wonderfull in working 4. There is also a Blackmore maid that hath long lived at Dorchester in New England unto whom God hath so blessed the publique and private means of Grace that she is not only indued with a competent measure of knowledge in the mysteries of God and conviction of her miserable estate by sinne but hath also experience of a saving work of grace in her heart and a sweet savour of Christ breathing in her insomuch that her soule hath longed to enjoy Church-fellowship with the Saints there and having propounded her desire to the Elders of the Church after some triall of her taken in private she was called before the whole Church and there did make confession of her knowledge in the Mysteries of Christ and of the work of Conversion upon her Soule And after that there was such a testimony given of her blamelesse and godly Conversation that she was admitted a member by the joynt consent of the Church with great joy to all their hearts Since which time we have heard her much admiring Gods free grace to such a poore wretch as she was that God leaving all her friends and Kindred still in their sinnes should cast an eye upon her to make her a member of Christ and of the Church also and hath with teares exhorted some other of the Indians that live with us to embrace Iesus Christ declaring how willing he would be to receive them even as he had received her 5. The last instance we will give shall be of that famous Indian W●●uash who was a Captaine a proper man of person and of a very grave and sober spirit the Story of which comming to our hands very lately was indeed the occasion of writing all the rest This man a few yeares since seeing and beholding the mighty power of God in our English Forces how they fell upon the Pequits where divers hundreds of them were slaine in an houre The Lord as a God of glory in great terrour did appeare unto the Soule and Conscience of this poore Wretch in that very act and though before that time he had low apprehensions of our God having conceived him so be as he said but a Muskett● God or a God like unto a flye and as meane thoughts of the English that served this God that they were silly weake men yet from that time he was convinced and perswaded that our God was a most dreadfull God and that one English man by the help of his God was able to slay and put to flight an hundred ●n●an● This conviction did pursue and follow him night and day so that he could have no rest or quiet because hee was ignorant of the English mans God he went up and down bemoaning his condition and filling every place where he came with sighes and groanes Afterward it pleased the Lord that some English well acquainted with his Language did meet with him thereupon as a Hart panting after the water Brookes he enquired after God with such incessant diligence that they were constrained constantly for his satisfaction to spend more then halfe the night in conversing with him Afterwards he came to dwell amongst the English at Connecticus still travelling with all his might and lamenting after the Lord his manner was to smite his hand on his breast and to complaine sadly of his heart saying it was much machet that is very evill and when any spake with him he would say Wequash no God Wequash no know Christ It pleased the Lord that in the use