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A50190	A brief relation of the state of New England from the beginning of that plantation to this present year, 1689 in a letter to a person of quality.	Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.; Kick, Abraham. To Her Royal Highness the Princess of Orange.; Mather, Increase, 1639-1723. De successu Evangelii apud Indos in Nova-Anglia epistola. English.	1689 (1689)	Wing M1189; ESTC R3614	12,192	22

all occasions for their own Defence and Service of their Prince who will find whenever he shall please for to command and commissionate them that they are able by the Blessing of God to secure and enlarge his Dominions and to bring their French Neighbours into an intire Subjection to the Crown of England And from this Consideration it was that the French Ministers who all the World knows had a mighty Ascendent over White-Hall in the Two Late Kings Reigns ceased not in their Negotiations until amongst other Articles agreed on One was that in Case of a War betwixt England and France there shall be a Neutrality in the Plantations They wisely foreseeing that if the King of England should arm and commission his Subjects in New England the Frenchmen in those parts could not stand before them In the Time of the Late Protector Cromwel they did by order from England take several Forts from the French which by King Charles the Second were restored to them again no ways to the Honour or Interest of the English Nation And it 's hoped His Majesty and the High Court of Parliament will put that value upon New England as so vast a Tract of Land and Body of People deserve from a Government on which they depend and are so great and useful a Member as they have manifested themselves to be And that in so Eminent a manner as calls for Protection Encouragement and Restauration to all their Rights Priviledges and Proprieties and what Additions more as in His Majesty great Wisdom shall be thought fit for his Service the Protestant Religion and the good of that People who on the 18th of April 1689. Unanimously rose in Arms and after having seized upon their Illegal Governour and the rest of their Oppressors declared for the Prince of Orange and the Parliament of England the Protestant Religion and their Ancient Constitution and to this day do keep the Country for our Present Sovereigns King William and Queen Mary against King Lewis and the Abdicated King James waiting His Majesties Commands c. Which Declaration is in the words following WE do therefore seize upon the Persons of those few Ill Men which have been next unto our sins the Grand Authors of our Miseries resolving to secure them for what Justice Orders from his Highness with the English Parliament shall direct lest e're we are aware we find what we may fear being on all sides in danger our selves to be by them given away to a Foreign Power before such Orders can reach unto us for which Orders we now humbly wait in the mean time firmly believing that we have endeavoured nothing but what meer Duty to God and our Country calls for at our hands We commit our Enterprize to the Blessing of him who hears the Cry of the oppressed and advise all our Neighbours for whom we have thus ventured our selves to joyn with us in Prayers and all just Actions for the Defence of the Land. The twelfth Article of New England is the Key of the New World America if the French King had got it into his Possession he might soon have made himself Master of America and this in all Probability would have been done this Summer if the New Englanders in and about Boston penetrating into the Designs carrying on had not risen as one Man and seized Sir E. A. who is as of a French Extract so in the French Interests being sent to New England by the Late King James with an Illegal and Arbitrary Commission and those ill Men who joyned with him in his Tyranny All men do acknowledge that those brave Souls whom God hath so wonderfully assisted and spirited to preserve London-Derry and perhaps thereby to save all Ireland by securing it and declaring for King William and Queen Mary deserve great Favour and Protection from the Government And the same must be acknowledged due unto the People of New England and more especially when it is considered of what Value and Consequence to England New England is and that they so early as it were rescued the Country out of the hands of the French even before they knew the Prince of Orange was King of England and that at a Time when they knew no more than that His Highness was landed in England with a design to endeavour the delivering the Kingdom and the Churches of God from Popery Slavery and Arbitrary Power which as they lookt upon as an Heroick and Glorious Undertaking so they also accounted it their Duty to embark themselves in the same Cause though they knew not what the Issue of so mighty a Work would be which hath caused some Persons of no Mean Figure to say These People deserve His Majesties and the Nations Respect Countenance and Speedy Restitution of all their Rights and to be enabled by His Majesties Commissions to prosecute the War against France in America which they are capable to do without any considerable Charge to the Government And indeed New England hath upon the best Accounts which can be mentioned out-done all America For there they have erected an Vniversity which began in the year 1642 wherein things are managed pro more Academiarum in Anglia Several Persons of more than ordinary Learning yea and many scores of able Ministers of the Gospel have there had their Education There by the Statutes of the Colledge none is to be admitted before he can write Latin in a pure Style and translate any ordinary Greek Author It is customary with them every Morning in the Colledge-Hall to read a Chapter out of the Hebrew Bible and at Night a Chapter out of the Greek Original The Tutors there instruct their Pupils in Logick Natural and Moral Philosophy Metaphysicks Geography Astronomy Arithmetick Geometry c. and the Learned Men there have a corresponding communication with other Learned Men in divers parts of the World where the Reformed Religion is professed and by them highly reverenced for their Learning and Sobriety an Instance of which appears by the following Letter written by the Eminent Mr. Kick to the Queen's Majesty that now is in February last by way of Supplication for New England To Her Royal Highness the Princess of Orange c. May it please your Royal Highness THE great and good God who ●●th foretold us in the Scriptures that a great and wonderful Deliverance shall be wrought for his Church in the latter days when the Mountain of Zion shall be exalted in the top of the Mountains seemeth to have designed to m●●● use of His Highness the Prince of Orange and Your Royal Highness as Instruments in that glorious Deliverance Having already done such marvellous things in England by His Highness in order to that great Work insomuch that the Eyes of all the Protestant Churches and People of God are this day towards His Highness and Your Royal Highness as Instruments in God's Hand for the further carrying on of the Deliverance of his Church from the cruel Sufferings and

Oppressions it is under in most parts of World. For which reason I have taken the boldness to become Your Royal Highnesses humble Remembrancer on the behalf of the People and Church of God in New England Who about Seventy years since forsook their own Native Country and went into that howling Wilderness that they might enjoy the Liberty of their Consciences in the Worship of God. They are a People indeed not much taken notice of yet a People by and for whom God hath done great things and by whose assistance the English Colonies and Plantations in America and the West-India Islands may be much profited and in case of War with France many of the French Colonies in those parts may be reduced to the Obedience and Interest of the English Nation They have erected a Vniversity amongst them that hath produced very many able Divines who have been very Instrumental in the Conversion of many of the Indians to the Christian Faith having for the furtherance of that good Work Translated the Bible into the Indian Tongue Their Confession of Faith and Church-Discipline I have made bold to present to Your Royal Highness that you may see they are Orthodox This People had a Patent granted them by King James to choose their own Governors and to make their own Laws not repugnant to the Laws of England wh●●● Patent was Ratified to them by King Charles the First and Second and so continued until the late ill Mode of Quo Warranto's came up and that they had one sent to them about their Patent For the defending of which they stood a Tryal at Westminster-hall and cast the King but the King caused it to be brought to a Review and by Stratagems used then in such like Cases forced a Judgment against the said Patent and thereupon took away all their Priviledges and Imposed a Governor and new Laws upon them which they exceedingly much groan under And although I am satisfied that so soon as they shall come to hear of the great and wonderful things that God hath done in England by His Highness for the Restoring of Charters and Priviledges they will then Address themselves to Your Highnesses seeking the Restoration of theirs yet in regard they are so many thousand Miles distant it will be long e're it come to their knowledge Therefore I have adventured on their behalf having had a Correspondency with the said People many years and knowing how much they will suffer if their new Governor be not speedily removed to give Your Royal Highness the trouble of these Lines praying to God that He will please to move your Heart to take the First opportunity to help them to the Restoration of their Ancient Patent Priviledges and Liberties That they and all the Churches of God may have reason to own His Highness and Your Royal Highness as Healers of their Breaches and Restorers of Paths to dwell in And to rejoyce in the Goodness of God in fulfilling that Promise of making Kings to be Nursing Fathers and Queens to be Nursing Mothers to his Church I humbly beg your Royal Highnesses Pardon for the trouble of these Lines and take leave to subscribe my self GREAT MADAM Your Royal Highnesses Most Obedient and Most humble Servant ABRAHAM KICK Hague the First of February 1689. S. N. Nay I will be bold to say that New England hath out-done the whole World for among the Indians who a while since were mere Heathens there are not only many Congregations of them who are converted to the Christian Faith and the Protestant which is the only True Religion But no less than Four and twenty of those Heathens are now not only Christians but Preachers of the Gospel of Jesus Christ And I challenge the whole World to produce me the like Instance as more fully appears by the following Relation abstracted out of a Letter written about two years since from Boston by the Reverend Mr. Mather President of the College there at the request and unto the famous Dr. John Leusden Hebrew Professor in the University of Vtricht and since translated into divers Languages in New England The whole Bible hath been translated into the Indian Language and there also printed It 's above forty five years since that truly pious and godly Man Mr. John Elliot Minister of the Church at Rocksborough a Mile from Boston being warm'd with a Compassionate and Holy Zeal for the Conversion of the Americans set himself to learn the Indian Tongue that he might the more easily and successfully open to them the Mysteries of the Gospel on account of which he hath been not undeservedly called the Apostle of the American Indians This Reverend Person was he that with indefatigable Labour and Study translated the whole Bible into the Indian Tongue and also several English Treatises of Practical Divinity and Catechisms About Twenty eight years since he gathered a Church of Converted Indians in a Town called Natick These poor Indians were brought to such a sense of God and Religion that they confessed their Sins with Tears and professed their Faith in Christ and afterwards they and their Children were Baptized and they were Solemnly joyned together in a Church-Covenant And Mr. Elliot was the first that Administred the Lords Supper to them The Minister of that Church is now an Indian named Daniel Besides this Church at Natick among our Inhabitants in the Massachusets Colony there are Four Indian Assemblies where the Name of the True God and Jesus Christ is solemnly called upon And these Four Assemblies have American Preachers Mr. Elliot formerly Preached to them once in Fourteen Days but now being Weakned with his Labours and in the Eighty Sixth Year of his Age doth not Preach to them more than once in Two Months About Fifty Miles from Boston is another Church consisting only of Converted Indians in an Indian Town called Marshippang the first Minister of which was an Englishman who being skilful in the American Language Preached the Gospel to them in their own Tongue but this Minister is lately Dead and they now have an Indian Preacher There are besides that Five Assemblies of Indians professing the Name of Christ not far distant from Marshippang which have Indian Preachers and also are Preached unto in their own Language once every weak by Mr. John Cotton Son of the Famous Mr. John Cotton somtimes Minister of the Church at Boston In Plymouth Colony of the Inhabitants of Saconet there is a great Congregation of those who for distinctions sake are called Praying Indians Because they Pray to God in Christ Not far from a Promontory called Cape Cod are Six Assemblies of Heathens who are to be reckoned as Catechumeni amongst whom are Six Indian Preachers Mr. Samuel Treat Minister of a Church at East Ham Preacheth to these Congregations in their own Language There are amongst the Islanders of Mantucket a Church with a Minister who was lately a Heathen and several meetings of Catechumeni who are instructed by the Converted Indians

In the Island of Martha which is about Twenty Two Miles long are two American Churches planted which are more Famous than the rest for that over one of them presides an Ancient Indian Minister called Hiacooms John Hiacooms Son of the said Indian Minister also Preaches the Gospel to his Contrymen in _____ Church in that place John Tockinosh a Converted Indian Teaches In these Churches Ruling Elders of the Indians are joyned to the Ministers The Ministers were chosen by the People and when they had Fasted and Prayed Mr. Elliott and Mr. Cotton laid their hands on them so that they were solemnly Ordained All the Congregations of the Converted Indians the Catechumeni and those that are in Church-Order every Lords Day meet together the Minister always beginning with Prayer and without a Form because from the heart when the Ruler of the Assembly hath ended his Prayer the whole Cogregation of Indians praise God with Singing in which many of them are excelling After the Psalm he that Preaches reads a place of Scripture and Expounds it gathers Doctrins from it proves them by Scripture and reasons and infers use from them after the manner of the English of whom they have been taught Then another Prayer to God in the Name of Christ concludes the whole Service in which manner they meet twice every Lord's Day they observe no Holy Days but the Lord's Day except upon some extraordinary occasion and then they solemnly set apart whole Days either in giving thanks or fasting and praying with great fervor of Mind Before the English came into these Parts these Barbarous Nations were altogether ignorant of the true God hence it is that in their Prayers and Sermons they use English Words and Terms He that calls upon the most Holy Name of God says Jehovah or God or Lord and also they have Learned and borrowed many other Theological Phrases from the English There are six Churches of Baptized Indians in New England and eighteen Assemblies of Catechumeni professing the Name of Christ Of the Indians there are four and twenty who are Preachers of the Word of God and there are also four English Ministers who Preach the Gospel in the Indian Tongue and there are many of the Indians Children who have learned by heart the Catechism either of that samous Divine Mr. Will. Perkins or that put forth by the Assembly of Divines at Westminster and can in their own Mother-Tongue answer to all the questions in it Thus Sir I have endeavoured to gratifie your request with as much Brevity as the Subject will admit and exceeding the Bounds of a Letter am forced to be so prolix and the rather for that most of what I have written is upon my own knowledge Truth and the rest undeniable fact though not the twentieth Part of the Truths might be said of the Almighty's most wonderful blessing and prospering New England and his Gospel among the Heathen there which to me looks like the Beginnings of the fulfilling those many Prophecies in Holy Writ concerning them And after all this I cannot but admire there should be as you say there is any Man in England who owns but even the bare name of a Protestant at such a time as this when God seems to have begun the Reformation of the whole World and eminently to appear for the True Reformed Religion should be an Enemy unto such a People as are in New England and their Discipline as to the Religious Worship When as to all knowing and unprejudiced persons its consonant to the practice of the Primitive Church and of the Reformed Churches throughout the World Which one would think should not find an Enemy among any sort of Christians but those called Papists or else among such as Papist like can give up their Religion Rights Liberties and Properties nay their very Senses to the conduct of their Fellow Creatures FINIS Books lately Printed for R. Baldwin THE History of the most Illustrious VVilliam Prince of Orangc deduc'd from the first Founders of the Ancient House of Nassau Together with the most Considerable Actions of this Present Prince Fourteen Papers viz. 1. A Letter from a Gentleman in Ireland to his Fri●nd in London upon occasion of a Pamplet Entituled A Vindication of the present Government of reland under his Excellency Richard Earl of Tyrconnel 2. A Letter from a Freeholder to the rest of the Freeholders of England and all Others who have Votes in the Choice of Parliament M●● 3. An Enquiry into the Reasons for Abrogating the Test imposed on all Members of Parliament Offered by S. Ox. 4. Reflections on a late Pamphlet Entituled Parlimentum Pacificum Licensed by the Earl of Sunderland and printed at London in March 1688. 5. A L●tter to a Dissenter upon occasion of his Majesties Gracious Declaration of Indulgence 6. The Anatomy of an Equivalent 7. A Letter from a Clergy-man in the City to his Friend in the Country containing his Reasons for not reading the Declaration 8. An Answer to the City Minister's Letter from his Country Friend 9. A Letter to a Dissenter from his Friend at the Hague concerning the Penal Laws and the Test shewing that the Popular Plea for Liberty of Conscience is not concerned in that Question 10. A plain Account of the Persecution laid to the Charge of the Church of England 11. Abby and other Church-lands not Assured to such Possessors as are Roman Catholicks Dedicated to the Nobility and Gentry of that Religion 12. The King's Power in Ecclesiastical matters truly Stated 13. A Letter of several French Ministers fled into Germany upon the account of the Persecution in France to such of their Brethren in England as approved the King's Declaration touching Liberty of Conscience Translated from the Original in French. 14. Popish Treatise not to be Fely'd on In a ●●tter from a Gentleman at York to his Friend in the Prince of Orange 's Camp Addressed to all Members of the next Parliament The VVay to Peace amongst all Protestants Being a Letter of Reconciliation sent by Bishop Ridley to Bishop Hooper with some Observations upon it By Samuel Johnson Purgatory prov●d by Miracles Collected out of Roman Catho●ick Authors VVith some remarkable Histories relating to British English and Irish Saints VVith a Preface concerning Miracles By S. Johnson An Historical Relation of several Great and Learned Fomanists who did imbrace the Protestant Beligion with their Reasons for their Change deliver'd in their own words Collected chiefly from most eminent Historians of the Roman Perswasion To which is added a Catalogue of sundry great Persons of the Roman Catholick Religion who have all along oppos'd the Tenets of the Church of Rome The Character of a Trimmer His Opinion of 1. The Laws and Government 2. Protestant Religion 3. The Papists 4. Foreign Affairs By the Honourable Sir W. Coventry A Seasonable Discourse shewing the Unreasonableness and Mischiefs of Impositions in Matters of Religion recommended to serious Consideration By Mr. Andr. Marvel a late Member of the Honourable House of Commons The Revolter A Trage-Comedy acted between the Hind and Patter and Religio Laici c. The Absolute Necessity of Standing by the Present Government or a View of what both Church-men and Dissenters must Expect if by their Unhappy Divisions Popery and Tyranny should return again An Impartial Relation of the Illegal Proceedings against St. Mary Magdalen Colledge in Oxon in the Year of our Lord 1687 containing only Matters of Fact as they occurred Collected by a Fellow of the said Colledge