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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59662	The Day-breaking, if not the sun-rising of the Gospell with the Indians in New-England	Wilson, John, 1588-1667.; Shepard, Thomas, 1605-1649.; Eliot, John, 1604-1690.	1647 (1647)	Wing S3110; ESTC R21203	20,924	28

then the Sun warmes and heates c. so it was true they knew but little of Jesus Christ now but wee had more to tell them concerning him hereafter and after that more and after that more untill at last they may come to know Christ as the English doe and wee taught them but a little at a time because they could understand but little and if they prayed to God to teach them he would send his Spirit and teach them more they and their fathers had lived in ignorance untill now it hath beene a long night wherein they have slept and have not regarded God but now the day-light began to stirre upon them they might hope therefore for more ere long to bee made knowne to them Thus having spent some houres with them wee propounded two Questions What do you remember of what was taught you since the last time wee were here After they had spoken one to another for some time one of them returned this answer that they did much thanke God for our comming and for what they heard they were wonderfull things unto them Doe you beleeve the things that are told you viz that God is musquantum i. e. very angry for the least sinne in your thoughts or words or workes They said yes and hereupon wee set forth the terrour of God against sinners and mercy of God to the penitent and to such as sought to know Jesus Christ and that as sinners should bee after death Chechainuppan i. e. tormented alive for wee know no other word in the tongue to expresse extreame torture by so beleevers should after death Wowein wicke Jehovah i. e. live in all blisse with Iehovah the blessed God and so we concluded conference Having thus spent the whole afternoone and night being almost come upon us considering that the Indians formerly desired to know how to pray and did thinke that Jesus Christ did not understand Indian language one of us therefore prepared to pray in their owne language and did so for above a quarter of an houre together wherein divers of them held up eies and hands to heaven all of them as wee understood afterwards understanding the same but one of them I cast my eye upon was hanging downe his head with his rag before his eyes weeping at first I feared it was some sorenesse of his eyes but lifting up his head againe having wiped his eyes as not desirous to be seene I easily perceived his eyes were not sore yet somewhat red with crying and so held up his head for a while yet such was the presence and mighty power of the Lord Jesus on his heart that hee hung downe his head againe and covered his eyes againe and so fell wiping and wiping of them weeping abundantly continuing thus till prayer was ended after which hee presently turnes from us and turnes his face to a side and corner of the Wigwam and there fals a weeping more aboundantly by himselfe which one of us perceiving went to him and spake to him encouraging words at the hearing of which hee fell a weeping more and more so leaving of him he who spake to him came unto mee being newly gone out of the Wigwam and told mee of his teares so we resolved to goe againe both of us to him and speake to him againe and wee met him comming out of the Wigwam and there wee spake againe to him and he there fell into a more aboundant renewed weeping like one deeply and inwardly affected indeed which forced us also to such bowels of compassion that wee could not forbeare weeping over him also and so wee parted greatly rejoycing for such sorrowing Thus I have as faithfully as I could remember given you a true account of our beginnings with the Indians within our owne bounds which cannot but bee matter of more serious thoughts what further to doe with these poore Natives the dregs of mankinde and the saddest spectacles of misery of meere men upon earth wee did thinke to forbeare going to them this winter but this last dayes worke wherein God set his seale from heaven of acceptance of our little makes those of us who are able to resolve to adventure thorow frost and snow lest the fire goe out of their hearts for want of a little more fewell to which wee are the more incouraged in that the next day after our being with them one of the Indians came to his house who preacht to them to speake with him who in private conference wept exceedingly and said that all that night the Indians could not sleepe partly with trouble of minde and partly with wondring at the things they heard preacht amongst them another Indian comming also to him the next day after told him how many of the wicked sort of Indians began to oppose these beginnings Whence these Indians came here to inhabit is not certaine his reasons are most probable who thinke they are Tartars passing out of Asia into America by the straits of Anian who being spilt by some revenging hand of God upon this continent like water upon the ground are spread as farre as these Atlanticke shores there being but few of them in these parts in comparison of those which are more contiguous to the Anian straits if wee may credit some Historians herein what ever these conjectures and uncertainties bee certaine it is that they are inheritors of a grievous and fearefull curse living so long without Ephod or Teraphim and in nearest alliance to the wilde beasts that perish and as God delights to convey blessings of mercy to the posterity of some in respect of his promise to their fathers so are curses entailed and come by naturall descent unto others for some great sinnes of their Ancestors as no doubt it is in respect of these Yet notwithstanding the deepest degeneracies are no stop to the overflowing grace and bloud of Christ when the time of love shall come no not to these poore outcasts the utmost ends of the earth being appointed to bee in time the Sonne of Gods possession Wee are oft upbraided by some of our Countrymen that so little good is done by our professing planters upon the hearts of Natives such men have surely more spleene then judgement and know not the vast distance of Natives from common civility almost humanity it selfe and 't is as if they should reproach us for not making the windes to blow when wee list our selves it must certainely be a spirit of life from God not in mans power which must put flesh and sinewes unto these dry bones if wee would force them to baptisme as the Spaniards do about Cusco Peru and Mexico having learnt them a short answer or two to some Popish questions or if wee would hire them to it by giving them coates and shirts to allure them to it as some others have done wee could have gathered many hundreds yea thousands it may bee by this time into the name of Churches but wee have not learnt as yet

come to the knowledge of Jesus Christ The last helpe wee gave them was repentance they must confesse their sinnes and ignorance unto God and mourne for it and acknowledge how just it is for God to deny them the knowledge of Jesus Christ or any thing else because of their sinnes These things were spoken by him who had preached to them in their owne language borrowing now and then some small helpe from the Interpreter whom wee brought with us and who could oftentimes expresse our minds more distinctly then any of us could but this wee perceived that a few words from the Preacher were more regarded then many from the Indian Interpreter One of them after this answer replyed to us that hee was a little while since praying in his Wigwam unto God and Jesus Christ that God would give him a good heart and that while hee was praying one of his fellow Indians interrupted him and told him that hee prayed in vaine because Jesus Christ understood not what Indians speake in prayer he had bin used to heare English man pray and so could well enough understand them but Indian language in prayer hee thought hee was not acquainted with it but was a stranger to it and therefore could not understand them His question therefore was whether Jesus Christ did understand or God did understand Indian prayers This question sounding just like themselves wee studied to give as familiar an answer as wee could and therefore in this as in all other our answers we endeavoured to speake nothing without clearing of it up by some familiar similitude our answer summarily was therefore this that Jesus Christ and God by him made all things and makes all men not onely English but Indian men and if hee made them both which wee know the light of nature would readily reach as they had been also instructed by us then hee knew all that was within man and came from man all his desires and all his thoughts and all his speeches and so all his prayer and if hee made Indian men then hee knowes all Indian prayers also and therefore wee bid them looke upon that Indian Basket that was before them there was black and white strawes and many other things they made it of now though others did not know what those things were who made not the Basket yet hee that made it must needs tell all the things in it so wee said it was here Another propounded this question after this answer Whether English men were ever at any time so ignorant of God and Jesus Christ as themselves When wee perceived the root and reach of this question wee gave them this answer that there are two sorts of English men some are bad and naught and live wickedly and loosely describing them and these kind of English men wee told them were in a manner as ignorant of Jesus Christ as the Indians now are but there are a second sort of English men who though for a time they lived wickedly also like other prophane and ignorant English yet repenting of their sinnes and seeking after God and Jesus Christ they are good men now and now know Christ and love Christ and pray to Christ and are thankfull for all they have to Christ and shall at last when they dye goe up to heaven to Christ and we told them them all these also were once as ignorant of God and Jesus Christ as the Indians are but by seeking to know him by reading his booke and hearing his word and praying to him c. they now know Jesus Christ and just so shall the Indians know him if they so seeke him also although at the present they bee extrmely ignorant of him How can there be an Image of God because it 's forbidden in the second Commandement Wee told them that Image was all one Picture as the Picture of an Indian Bow and Arrowes on a tree with such little eyes and such faire hands is not an Indian but the Picture or Image of an Indian and that Picture man makes and it can doe no hurt nor good So the Image or Picture of God is not God but wicked men make it and this Image can doe no good nor hurt to any man us God can Whether if the father bee naught and the child good will God bee offended with that child because in the second Commandement it 's said that hee visits the sinnes of fathers upon the children Wee told them the plainest answer wee could thinke of via that if the child bee good and the father bad God will not bee offended with the child if hee repents of his owne and his fathers sinnes and followes not the steps of his wicked father but if the child bee also bad then God will visit the sins of fathers upon them and therefore wisht them to consider of the other part of the promise made to thousands of them that love God and the Evangenesh Iehovah i. e. the Commandments of Jehovah How all the world is become so full of people if they were all once drowned in the Flood Wee told them the story and causes of Noabs preservation in the Arke at large and so their questioning ended and therefore wee then saw our time of propounding some few questions to them and so take occasion thereby to open matters of God more fully Our first question was Whether they did not desire to see God and were not tempted to thinke that there was no God because they cannot see him Some of them replyed thus that indeed they did desire to see him if it could bee but they had heard from us that hee could not be seene and they did beleive that though their eies could not see him yet that hee was to bee seene with their soule within Hereupon we sought to confirme them the more and asked them if they saw a great Wigwam or a great-house would they thinke that * Racoones or Foxes built it that had no wisedome or would they thinke that it made it selfe or that no wise workman made it because they could not see him that made it No but they would beleeve some wise workman made it though they did not see him so should they beleeve concerning God when they looked up to heaven Sunne Moone and Stars and saw this great house he hath made though they do not see him with their eyes yet they have good cause to beleeve with their soules that a wise God a great God made it We knowing that a great block in their way to beleiving is that there should bee but one God by the profession of the English and yet this God in many places therefore we asked them whether it did not seeme strange that there should bee but one God and yet this God in * Massachusets at Concetacut at Quimipeiock in old England in this Wigwam in the next every where Their answer was by one most sober among

imployment is to cure the sick by certaine odde gestures and beatings of themselves and then they pull out the sicknesse by applying their hands to the sick person and so blow it away so that their Pawwaws are great witches having fellowship with the old Serpent to whom they pray and by whose meanes they heale sicke persons and as they said also will slew many strange juglings to the wonderment of the Indians They affirmed also that if they did not cure the sick party as they often they did not that then they were reviled and sometime killed by some of the dead mans friends especially if they could not get their mony againe out of their hands which they receive aforehand for their cure Wee have cause to be very thankfull to God who hath moved the hearts of the generall court to purchase so much land for them to make their towne in which the Indians are much taken with * and it is somewhat observable that while the Court were considering where to lay out their towne the Indians not knowing of any thing were about that time consulting about Lawes for themselves and their company who sit downe with Waaubon there were ten of them two of them are forgotten Their Lawes were these 1. That if any man be idle a weeke at most a fortnight hee shall pay five shillings 2. If any unmarried man shall lie with a young woman unmarried hee shall pay twenty shillings 3. If any man shall beat his wife his hands shall bee tied behind him and carried to the place of justice to bee severely punished 4. Every young man if not anothers servant and if unmarried hee shall be compelled to set up a Wigwam and plant for himselfe and not live shifting up and downe to other Wigwams 5. If any woman shall not have her haire tied up but hang loose or be cut as mens haire she shall pay five shillings 6. If any woman shall goe with naked breasts they shall pay two shillings fix pence 7. All those men that weare long locks shall pay five shillings 8. If any shall kill their lice betweene their teeth they shall pay five shillings This Law though ridiculous to English eares yet tends to preserve cleanlinesse among Indians 'T is wonderfull in our eyes to understand by these two honest Indians what Prayers Waaubon and the rest of them use to make for hee that preacheth to them professeth hee never yet used any of their words in his prayers from whom otherwise it might bee thought that they had learnt them by rote one is this Amanaomen Iehovah 〈◊〉 metagh Take away Lord my stony heart Another Chechesom Iehovah kekowhogkow Wash Lord my soule Another Lord lead mee when I die to heaven These are but a taste they have many more and these more enlarged then thus expressed yet what are these but the sprinklings of the spirit and blood of Christ Jesus in their hearts and 't is no small matter that such dry barren and long-accursed ground should yeeld such kind of increase in so small a time I would not readily commend a faire day before night nor promise much of such kind of beginnings in all persons nor yet in all of these for wee know the profession of very many is but a meere paint and their best graces nothing but meere flashes and pangs which are suddenly kindled and as so one go out and are extinct againe yet God doth not usually send his Plough Seedsman to a place but there is at least some little peece of good ground although three to one bee naught and mee thinkes the Lord Jesus would never have made so fit a key for their locks unlesse hee had intended to open some of their doores and so to make way for his comming in Hee that God hath raised up and enabled to preach unto them is a man you know of a most sweet humble loving gratious and enlarged spirit whom God hath blest and surely will still delight in do good by I did think never to have opened my mouth to any to desire those in England to further any good worke here but now I see so many things inviting to speak in this businesse that it were well if you did lay before those that are prudent and able these considerations 1. That it is prettie heavy and chargeable to educate and traine up those children which are already offered us in schooling cloathing diet and attendance which they must have 2. That in all probabilitie many Indians in other places especially under our jurisdiction will bee provoked by this example in these both to desire preaching and also to send their children to us when they see that some of their fellowes fare so well among the English and the civill authoritie here so much favouring and countenancing of these and if many more come in it will bee more heavy to such as onely are fit to keepe them and yet have their hands and knees infeebled so many wayes besides 3. That if any shall doe any thing to incourage this worke that it may bee given to the Colledge for such an end and use that so from the Colledge may arise the yeerly revenue for their yeerly maintenance I would not have it placed in any particular mans hand for feare of cousenage or misplacing or carelesse keeping and improving but at the Colledge it 's under many hands and eyes the chief and best of the country who have been will be exactly carefull of the right and comely disposing of such things and therefore if any thing bee given let it bee put in such hands as may immediatly direct it to the President of the Colledge who you know will soone acquaint the rest with it and for this end if any in England have thus given any thing for this end I would have them speake to those who have received it to send it this way which if it bee withheld I thinke 't is no lesse then sacriledge but if God moves no hearts to such a work I doubt not then but that more weake meanes shall have the honour of it in the day of Christ A fourth meeting with the Indians THis day being Decemb. 9. the children being catechised and that place of Ezekiel touching the dry bones being opened and applyed to their condition the Indians offered all their children to us to bee educated amongst us and instructed by us complaining to us that they were not able to give any thing to the English for their education for this reason there are therefore preparations made towards the schooling of them and setting up a Schoole among them or very neare unto them Sundry questions also were propounded by them to us and of us to them one of them being asks what is sinne hee answered a naughty heart Another old man complained to us of his feares viz. that hee was fully purposed to keepe the Sabbath but still hee was in feare whether he should goe to hell or heaven and thereupon the justification of a sinner by faith in Christ was opened unto him as the remedy against all feares of hell Another complayned of other Indians that did revile them and call them Rogues and such like speeches for cutting off their Locks and for cutting their Haire in a modest manner as the New-English generally doe for since the word hath begun to worke upon their hearts they have discerned the vanitie and pride which they placed in their haire and have therefore of their owne accord none speaking to them that we know of cut it modestly they were therefore encouraged by some there present of chiefe place and account with us not to feare the reproaches of wicked Indians nor their witch-craft and Pawwaws and poysonings but let them know that if they did not dissemble but would seeke God unfaignedly that they would stand by them and that God also would be with them They told us also of divers Indians who would come and stay with them three or foure dayes and one Sabbath and then they would goe from them but as for themselves they told us they were fully purposed to keepe the Sabbath to which wee incouraged them and night drawing on were forced to leave them for this time FINIS * Indian h●●ses or tents made of ba●● or matts * The name 〈◊〉 an Indian The name of one of the chiefe Indians about us 1 Quest Answ. 1. 2. 3. 4. 2 Quest Answ. 3 Quest Answ. 4 Quest Answ. 5 Quest Answ. 6 Quest Answ. Quest 1. Answ. * A beast somewhat like a Fox Quest 2. * Three Indian names of places where the English sit downe That Hee was present every where 3. Quest Answ. 1 Quest Answ. 2. Quest Answ. 3. Quest Answ. 4 Quest Answ. A Be●ry which is r●pe in the Winter and very sowre they are called here Bea●berries 5 Quest Answ. 6 Quest Answ. 1 Quest Answ. 2 Quest Answ. 1. 2. ● 4. 5. 6. The name o● an Indian That is King That is Sorcerers and Wit●hes * This towne the Indians did desire to know what name it should have and it was told them it should bee called Noonatomen which signifies in English rejoycing because they hearing the word and seeking to know God the English did rejoyce at it and God did rejoyce at it which pleased them much therefore that is to be the name of their towne