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A96415	The light appearing more and more towards the perfect day. Or, a farther discovery of the present state of the Indians in New-England, concerning the progresse of the Gospel amongst them. Manifested by letters from such as preacht to them there. / Published by Henry Whitfeld, late pastor to the Chuch [sic] of Christ at Gilford in New-England, who came late thence.	Whitfield, Henry, 1597-1660?; Mayhew, Thomas, fl. 1651.; Eliot, John, 1604-1690.	1651 (1651)	Wing W1999; Thomason E624_3; ESTC R206427	44,315	54

other Nations have wherein to stick and therefore they do most readily yeeld to any direction from the Lord so that there will be no such opposition against the rising Kingdome of Jesus Christ among them yet I foresee a cloud of difficulties in the work and much obscurity and trouble in some such respects as I think not meet to mention only by faith I do see through this cloud I beleeve the faithful promises of Christ shall be accomplisht among them and the Lord Jesus shall reigne over them gloriously Oh my heart yearneth over distressed perplexed England and my continual prayer unto the Lord for them is that he would be pleased to open their hearts and eyes and let them see their opportunity to let in Christ and to advance his Kingdome over them yea my hope is that he will not leave tampering with them untill he hath brought it to passe Oh the blessed day in England when the Word of God shall be their Magna Charta and chief Law Book and when all Lawyers must be Divines to study the Scriptures and should the Gentile Nations take up Moses policie so farre as it is morall and conscionable make the Scriptures the foundation of all their Lawes who knoweth what a door would be opened to the Jewes to come in to Christ I wrote likewise by my last to intreat for some encouragement to Master Mahu who preacheth to the Indians and that some monies may be laid out in book for him for young Sholars in New-England are very poor in books as he is in extreme want Dear Sir Be helpful in prayer to our work and above all gathering gather prayers I mean put the Saints in minde that they pray much about it as they do both there and here Truly Sir The spirit of prayer that is daily going about this matter is a very great encouragement for all our meetings through mercie ring of it I would intimate some more questions which they have propounded since my last for they are fruitful that way but partly I fear I shall want time yet my heart saies it may comfort you and therefore I will set down a few so many as I have noted down since may last If but one parent beleeve what state are our children in How doth much sinne make grace abound I having made use of that Text If so old a man as I repent may I be saved The wisdome of God drew forth this question next to interpret the former When we come to beleeve how many of our children doth God take with us whether all only young ones or at what age What meaneth that Let the trees of the Wood rejoyce What meaneth that That the Master doth not thank his servant for waiting on him What meaneth that We cannot serve two masters Can they in Heaven see us here on Earth Do they see and know each other Shall I know you in heaven Do they know each other in Hell When English-men choose Magistrates and Ministers how do they know who be good men that they dare trust Seeing the boody sinneth why should the soule be punished and what punishment shall the body have If all the world be burnt up where shall hell be What is it to beleeve in Christ What meaneth that Christ meriteth eternal life for us What meaneth that Covet not thy neighbours house c What meaneth that The woman brought to Christ a box of Oyle and washt his feet with tears c What meaneth that of the two debtors one oweth much another but little If a wicked man prayeth and teacheth doth God accept or what saies God At what age may maids marry If a man be wise and his Sachem weak must he yet obey him We are commanded to honour the Sachem but is the Sachem commanded to lovve us When all the world shall be burnt up what shall be in the roome of it an old wonans question yester day What meaneth God when he sayes yee shall be my Jewels This was asked from my text last time Exod. 19. 5. for so I rendred the word peculiar treasure You may perceive many of the questions arise out of such texts as I handle and I do endeavour to communicate as much Scripture as I can The word of the Lord converteth sanctifieth and maketh wise the simple sometimes they aske weaker questions then these which I mention not you have the best and when I am about writing I am more careful in keeping a remembrance of them it may be the same question may be again and again asked at several places and by several persons The Lord teach them to know Christ whom to know is eternal life I shall intreat your supplications at the throne of grace under the tender wing whereof I leave you being forced by the time and rest Roxbury this 29. of the 10th 49. Your respectful and loving brother and fellow-labourer in the Indian work JOHN ELIOT Much honoured and beloved in Christ c. I Heard of the health and welfare of your family not long since though the sharpnesse and depth of snowes this later part of winter did more shut up and hinder intercourse then ever I knew in New-England I shall principally attend to give you intelligence about the Indians touching whom I know not that you are like to have intelligence by others The Lord hath shewed them a very great testimony of his mercy this winter in that when formerly the English had the Pox much they also had the same but now though it was scattered in all or most of the Townes about them yet the Lord hath preserved them from it And that which maketh this favour of God the more evident and conspicuous is this That there is a company of profane Indians that lately are come to a place near Wamouth not farre from our Indians who do not onely refuse to pray unto God but oppose and apprehend that they were sent thither if not by the policie of some Pawwaws yet by the instigation of Sathan on purpose to seduce the younger sort from their profession and discourage others and indeed they being so neer had that effect evidently in some of the younger sort Now it pleased God that this company of wicked Indians were smitten with the Pox and sundry cut off and those which were cut off were of the worst and mischievous of them all which Providences all the good Indians do take a great notice of and doth say that the Lord hath wrought a wonder for them and it seemeth to me that the Lord hath blest this good Providence of his to be a strong ingagement of their hearts to the Lord The work of the Lord through his grace doth still go on as formerly and they are still full of questions and mostly they now be to know the meaning of such Scriptures as I have translated and read and in a poor measure expounded to them they long for to proceed in that work which I have in former Letters

of Shem. If these people be under a Covenant and Promise as ancient as Shem and Eber it is a ground of faith to expect mercy for them Now this I have thought that it seemeth to me as clear in the Scripture that these are the children of Shem as we of Japhet and Shem was a great man in the Church and to whom Abraham paid Tythes for I beleeve he was Melchisedceck yea it seemeth to me probable that these people are Hebrews of Eber whose sonnes the Scripture sends farthest East as it seemeth to me and learned Broughton put some of them over into America and certainly this Country was peopled Eastward from the place of the Arks resting seeing the finding of them by the West is but of yesterday Now Eber was also a great man in the Church Abraham the Hebrew saith the text and how often in the Scriptures doth the Lord use that blessed word of Grace and Covenant I am the God of the Hebrewes besides there be sundry Prophesies in Scripture unto the goings down of the Sunne and let it be considered whether America be not to be accounted among the places that are the goings down of the Sunne unto those places where those Promises were promulgated And when the Lord inlarged the Promise to Jacob as the light and extent of grace hath ever been encreasing and enlarging he promised to make him a Nation and a multitude of Nations which so farre as we regard a litteral accomplishment is in part accomplisht in the Nation of the Jewes and the other part remaineth as it may seem to be accomplisht in the lost Israelites scattered in the world principally if not wholly amongst the sons of Japhet and Shem and our God who can and will gather the scattered and lost dust of our bodies at the Resurrection can and will finde out these lost and scattered Israelites and in finding up them bring in with them the Nations among whom they were scattered and so shall Jacobs Promise extend to a multitude of Nations indeed and this is a great ground of faith for the conversion of the Easterne Nations and may be of help to our faith for these Indians especially if Rabbi Ben-Israel can make it appeare that some of the Israelites were brought into America and scattered here or if the Lord shall by any meanes give us to understand the same These meditations upon Scripture grounds do minister comfort encouragement to my heart with others also as That all Languages shall see his Glory and that all Nations and Kingdoms shall become the Kingdoms of the Lord Iesus and this I desire to do to look unto Scripture grounds only Oh this precious this perfect Word of God! You intimate also how zealously worthy Mr. Owen did prosecute this work the Lord reward him and the Lord accept him in all his holy labours Likewise you intimate how acceptable this work is to the Parliament that blessed Assembly whom the Lord Christ hath delighted to make instrumental to begin to set up the longed for prayed for and desired Kingdome of the Lord Jesus for we may see in some measure the accomplishment of that Prophesie of Christ Luke 21. 25. The peaceable summer beginning to arise out of these distressed times of perplexity all those signes preceding the glorious coming of Christ are accomplishing and a thick black cloud is gathered a cloud of blood confusion Heresies and Errors and the thickest and most portentous black part of that cloud is the Toleration of the most grosse and convicted impieties under the pretence of conscience which misapplication of the Sword of Authority if it should awhile prevaile cannot be innocent and will undoubtedly prolong the storme and delay of the reigne of Christ But notwithstanding all this black cloud who seeth not the glorious coming of the Lord Jesus breaking through this cloud and coming with power and great glory He is King of Kings and reigneth over Kings for where Justice reignes Christ doth reigne and that Antichristian principle for man to be above God whether the Pope in the Church or Monarches in the Common-wealth is thrown to the ground He that is above the Law is above the Word and he that is above the Word is above Christ Christ reigneth not over such as be above his Law But behold now Christ reigneth and gloriously breaks forth in the brightnesse of his coming and will in his time scatter all this thick black cloud yea the thickest of it Now this glorious work of bringing in and setting up the glorious kingdome of Christ hath the Lord of his free grace and mercy put into the hands of this renowned Parliament and Army Lord put it into all their hearts to make this designe of Christ their main first and chiefest endeavour according to the Word Seek first the Kingdom of heaven and the righteousnesse thereof and all other things shall be added And when the Lord Jesus is about to set up his blessed Kingdome among these poore Indians also how well doth it become the spirit of such instruments in the hand of Christ to promote that work also being the same businesse in some respect which themselves are about by the good hand of the Lord Surely Sir your chief work of this nature now is to follow this Indian work which sticks in the birth for want of means You would marvel if I should tell you how they long to come into a way of civility by co-habitation and by forming government among themselves that so they being in such order might have a Church and the Ordinances of Christ among them but want of a Magazine of all sorts of tools and materials for such a work is the present impediment The Lord is wiser then man and his time is best I will not say any thing now for farther direction about what is requisite for the work which the Lord is preparing their hearts unto my former Letters have said enough that way partly to you and partly to Mr. Pelham whose Letters I hope you have seen as containing sundry things necessary for your view and I doubt not but your wisdome will readily adde what is lacking in what I have projected only let me say this that I dayly still see more evidence that that is the very way which the Lord would have us take at present Let me I beseech you trouble you a little farther with some considerations about this great Indian work which lyeth upon me as my continual care prayer desire and endeavour to carry on namely for their schooling and education of youth in learing which is a principal means for promoting of it for future times If the Lord bring us to live in a Towne and Society we must have speiial care to have Schools for the instruction of the youth in reading that they may be able to read the Scriptures at least And therefore there must be some Annual revenew for the maintaining of such Schoolmasters and Dames Besides I do very