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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39229	A late and further manifestation of the progress of the gospel amongst the Indians in Nevv-England declaring their constant love and zeal to the truth : with a readiness to give accompt of their faith and hope, as of their desires in church communion to be partakers of the ordinances of Christ : being a narrative of the examinations of the Indians, about their knowledge in religion, by the elders of the churches / related by Mr. John Eliot.	Eliot, John, 1604-1690.; Walton, William, d. 1668. Examination of the Indians at Roxbury.; Society for Propagation of the Gospel in New England.	1655 (1655)	Wing E517; ESTC R9453	17,654	32

A Late and Further MANIFESTATION OF THE Progress of the GOSPEL AMONGST THE INDIANS IN Nevv-England Declaring their constant Love and Zeal to the Truth With a readinesse to give Accompt of their Faith and Hope as of their desires in Church Communion to be Partakers of the Ordinances of CHRIST Being a Narrative of the Examinations of the Indians about their Knowledge in Religion by the Elders of the Churches Related by Mr JOHN ELIOT Published by the CORPORATION established by Act of Parliament for Propagating the Gospel there Acts 3. 47. I have set thee to be a light to the Gentiles that thou shouldest be for Salvation unto the Ends of the Earth LONDON Printed by M. S. 1655. WEE having perused the ensuing Narration written by Master Eliot doe conceive it fit to be Printed That thereby the Servants of God in England may be further enlarged in their Praises to God for his free Grace wonderfully manifested in beginning and so succesfully carrying on the hoped for Conversion of the Indians And also that they may be much encouraged to continue their Prayers and liberall Contributions for the finishing and perfecting of this blessed and glorious undertaking so much conducing to the Glory of God the Salvation of soules and the Inlargement of the Kingdome of Christ upon Earth May 13. 1655. H Whitfeild Simeon Ashe Edm Calamy John Arthur AA To all that pray and wait for the Prosperity of SION and the increase of the Kingdome of our Lord Jesus Christ to the ends of the Earth Grace and Peace be multiplied Beloved Brethren AS The One thing which ye have desired of the Lord and which yee have sought after is that your selves might dwell in the house of the Lord all the dayes of your lives to behold the beauty of the Lord and to enquire in his Temple So I am much assured that the next thing which yee have desired of the Lord and which ye have earnestly sought after is that they who have hitherto been strangers to might dwell also in the house of the Lord all the dayes of their lives to behold the beauty of the Lord and to enquire in his Temple yea that they might be a house and a Temple of the Lord This being the gratious designe of your holy breathings unto God and of your liberall contributings unto men ye cannot but rejoyce to hear of any thing which looketh like much more which really is a fruit and return of such breathings and contri●●uti●gs Holy prayers and zealous endeavours are very sweet in their acts but they are much more sweet in their effects and issues It should mightily encourage the seed of Iacob to pray because God hath said that he hath not said to the seed of Iacob 〈◊〉 yee me in vaine But how should it pr●voke the s●ed of Iacob to give thanks when they find that they have not sought the Lord in vaine and that their labours have not been in vaine in the Lord Beloved Brethren yee may now see and tast the fruit of those Prophecie which ye have been helping to the birth The Wildernesse and solitary places are glad the desert rejoyceth and blossometh as the Rose it blossometh abundantly and rejoyceth even with joy and singing The glory of Leb●non is given to it the excellency of Carmell and Sharon these see the glory of the Lord and the excellency of our God This little Book of Observations and Experiences gives you a brief and faithfull Narrative of the increasing glory of Christ by the Progresse of the Gospel in New-England It tells you ●ow Christ hath there led captivity captive and given gifts for men yea for the rebellious that the L●rd God might dwell among them Where the strong man Armed kept the house for many Ages and Generations and all was in peace there now Christ A stronger then he hath come upon him and hath in many examples overcome him and taken from him all his Armour wherein he trusted and divided his spoyles Now Christ keeps the house which Satan formerly kept yea they who were kept by Satan as his house are now ready and earnestly desire to be built up as a house for Christ The poor naked ignorant Indians who lately knew no civill Order now beg to be brought into Church Order to live under the Government and enjoy the holy Ordinances of our Lord Jesus Christ in the purest way of Gospel-worship May we not now Beloved make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know Christ Behold Philistia and Tyre with Ethiopia this man was borne there and of Sion in New-England it may be said this and that man of the wild rude and barbarous Indians was borne there Read this short discourse and it will tell you that the Lord hath blessed the labours of the Messengers of Sion in New-England with the Conversion of some I may say of a considerable number of the Indians to be a kind of first fruits of his new Creatures there O let old England rejoyce in this that our brethren who with extream difficulties and expences have Planted themselves in the Indian Wildernesses have also laboured night and day with prayers and tears and Exhortations to Plant the Indians as a spirituall Garden into which Christ might come and eat his pleasant fruits Let the gaining of any of their souls to Christ and their turning to God from Idols to serve the living and true God be more pretious in our eyes then the greatest gaine or return of Gold and Silver This gaine of soules is a Merchandize worth the glorying in upon all the Exchanges or rather in all the Churches throughout the world This Merchandize is Holinesse to the Lord And of this the ensuing Discourse presents you with a Bill of many particulars from your spirituall Factory in New England as the improvement of your former adventures thether for the promoting of that heavenly Trade as also for an encouragement not only to all those who have freely done it already to adventure yet more but also for the quickning of those who hitherto have not done it now to underwrite themselves Adventurers for the advancement of so holy and hopefull a designe I shall adde only this one word That Whosoever shall thus Adventer for Christ shall have Christ for his Insurer To his Grace and Blessing I recommend both you and this Blessed Work who am Dearly Beloved A hearty well-wisher to the Propagation of the Gospel and your Servant for Christs sake JOSEPH CARYL A BRIEF NARRATION OF THE INDIANS PROCEEDINGS In respect of Church-Estate AND How the Case standeth at the present with us AFTER I had spent my poor labours among the Indians for the space of neer four years it pleased God to stir up in them a great desire of partaking in the Ordinance of Baptism and other Ecclesiasticall Ordinances in way of Church Communion But I declared unto them how necessary it was that they should first be Civilized by being brought from their scattered and wild