his hands shall be tied behind him and he severely punish'd 4. If a womans haire hang loose or cut as a mans she shall pay five shillings 5. If a woman goes with naked breasts she shall pay two shillings six pence 6. All men that weare long locks shall pay five shillings c. They were desirous to know the name of their Town it was said Noonanetum i. e. rejoycing because the English rejoyced at their desires to know God and God did rejoyce at it this pleased them much The two honest Indians told us that Waaubon and the rest used these expressions in prayer Take away Lord my stony heart another O Lord wash my soule another Lord lead me when I die to heaven December 9. The children being catechized and that of Ezechiel touching the dry bones opened they offered their children to be instructed by us complaining they had nothing to give us We propounded sundry questions to them and one of them being asked what was sinne said a naughty heart another old man complained of his feares he purposed to keepe the Sabbath yet he was afraid whether he should goe to hell or heaven another complained of other Indians reviling and calling them rogues for cutting off their lockes for since the word hath wrought upon them they discerne the vanity of their pride in their hair of their owne accord therefore they cut it modestly Second Treatise THE awakening of these Indians raised up a noise round about a Sachim from Concord side came to Noonanetum to an Indian lecture where the Lord spake so to his heart that hee desired to cast off his sinnefull courses c. some of his men opposed him therein he called the chiefe of them about him and spake to this effect That they had no reason at all to oppose the way of the English for their good while you lived after the Indian fashion what did the Sachims for you onely sought their owne ends out of you taking away your skinnes kettles and Wampam at their pleasure but the English care not for your goods onely seeke your good c. Upon this they desired Mr Elliot should come among them and preach and they framed to themselves certaine lawes for their more religious and civill government 1. Abusers of themselves by wines or strong liquors shall pay for every time 20 s. 2. There shall be no more Powawing the penalty 20 s. 3. They desire to be stirred up to seeke God 4. And understand the wiles of Sathan 5. And detest them 6. That they may improve their time better 7. A lyar shall pay for the first fault 5 s. for the second 10 s. for the third 20 s. 8. Against stealing 9. Having more wives than one 10. Against pride 11. For paying their debts to the English 12. Observing the Lords day prophaners of it pay 20 s. 13. VVeare their haire comely as the English offenders pay 58. 14. None grease themselves as formerly penalty 5 s. 15. Set up prayer in their VVigwams before also and after meate 16. Adultery punish'd with death 17. So wilfull murther 18. Not come to an English mans house without knocking 19. VVhosoever beates his wife shall pay 20 s. c. Most of these Indians set up prayer morning and evening in their families before and after meate keep the Lords day cut their haire minister what edification they can one to another manifesting great willingnesse to conforme unto the English fashions March 3. 1647. At the Lecture in Noonanetum wee saw some Indian women well affected and considering how unmeet it is for women to aske questions publikely they were desired to acquaint their husbands privatly therewith or the Interpretor the first was propounded by the wife of one VVampooas VVhether said she doe I pray when my husband prayeth if I speake nothing as he doth but I like what he saith and my heart goes with it The wife of one Totherswampe proposed this VVhether an husband should doe well to pray with his wife and yet continue in his passions and be angry with her c. An aged Indian complained of an unruly sonne asking what should be done with him when hee will not heare Gods word though his father command him nor forsake his drunkennesse An aged Indian told us openly that the very things which Mr Elliot taught them of God and his Commandements they have heard some old men speake c. and many of them have now this apprehension among them that their forefathers did know God but after this they fell into a great sleepe and when they did awaken they quite forgate him Another Indian told his dreame that about two yeeres before the comming over of the English one night hee could not sleepe a good while then he fell into a dream thinking he saw a great many men come into those parts cloathed as the English now are a man rose up among them all in blacke with a thing in his hand which hee now sees was all one Englishmans booke hee stood upon a higher place than the rest on one side the English and a great many Indians on the other he told all the Indians that God was Moosquantum or angry with them and would kill them for their sinnes whereupon himselfe hee said stood up and desired to know of the blacke man what God would doe with him and his Squaw and Papooses but hee would not answer him a first time nor a second till hee desired the third time and then hee smiled on him and said Hee and his Papooses should be safe God would give unto them Mitchen i. e. victualls and other good things and so he awakened At Noonanctum the Indian men women and children especially upon the Lecture daies are clad partly by the gift of the English and partly by their owne labour Iune 9. the first day of the Synods meeting at Cambridge the morning spent in a preparative Sermon to that worke in the afternoone there was a great confluence of Indians from all parts to heare Mr Elliot out of Ephe. 2. 1. shewed them their miserable condition out of Christ dead in trespasses and sinnes pointing unto them the Lord Jesus who onely could quicken them They then propounded questions What Countreyman Christ was How far that place from them Where Christ was now How they might lay hold on him And where being now absent from them The English Magistrares Ministers and people were much affected at what they saw and heard An Indian brake out into admiration that God should looke upon them that had bin so long in darknesse Me wonder saith he at God that hee should thus deale with us That winter many questions were propounded Why some so bad that they hate those that would teach them A Squaw said might she not goe and pray in the wood alone when her husband was not at home because she was ashamed to pray in the
Moses to his Israell Onely take heed to your selves and keepe your soules diligently Deut. 4. 9. make your calling and election sure 2 Pet. 1. 10. and because you are the children of faithfull Abraham command your children and families that they walke in the waies of the Lord Gen. 18. 9. and let who will serve themselves follow lying vanities and set up their owne lusts let every one of us say and do as Ioshua I and my house will serve the Lord Josh 24. 15. And not onely serve the Lord with and in our housholds but in furthering the common good of others and t is considerable God is pleased to owne publique interests though in civill things with the name of his owne inheritance But this is the sinne this is the misery of these times All seek their owne not the things of Iesus Christ Even regulated charity may beginne at home it may not it must not end there it is the onely grace that is sowne on earth it growes up to heaven and continues there it goes with us thither and there abides to all eternity and t is therefore 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 greater then faith and hope not from continuance onely but its extensivenesse it delights to be communicative it reacheth an hand of helpe one way or other to every one that needs though at never so great a distance after the cloven tongues as of fire had warmed the affections of the holy Apostles they had so much love to soules that they forgat their fathers house discipled all Nations and preached the Gospel to every creature Their line went through all the earth and their words to the ends of the world that former known world the same spirit hath warmed the hearts of our Countreymen and they are busie at the same worke in the other the new-found world For behold a white horse and he that sate on him had a bow and a Crown was given unto him and hee went forth conquering and to conquer so the Lord Christ shall be light to that world also and Gods salvation to the ends of the earth Britain hath woon the Gospel-glory from all other Countries not onely imbracing it with the formost as old Gildas testifieth but it was the first of all the Provinces that established Christianity by a law saith Sabellicus our Lucius was the first Christian King that Annales make mention of and venerable Bede out of Eutropius declareth that Constantine the first Christian Emperour was created to that dignity in this Island Sozom. l. 9. c. 11. saith that so were Marcus Gratian also But Constantine brought further honour to the Nation Religion For the Saxon Bede and Ponticus Virunnius affirme expresly that Constantine was born in Britaine after this ingemuit orbis videns se totum Romanum All the world wondred after the Beast groaned under the Papall servitude and our K. Henry the eight was the first of all the Princes who brake that yoke of Antichrist but neerer yet to our purpose The Inhabitants of the first England so Verstegan calls that part of Germany whence our Ancestors came hither with the Saxons and Iutes derive their Christianity from Iewry Ad nos doctrina de terra Iudaeorum per sanctos Apostolos qui docebant gentes pervenit as that great linguist learned and laborious Mr Wheelocke hath observed and translated out of the old Saxon Homilies t is but just therefore lege talionis that we repay what we borrowed and endeavour their conversion who first acquainted us with the eternall Gospell and if it be probable that providence honoured this Nation with the prime discovery of that New World as is intimated hereafter it is true without all controversie that from this second England God hath so disposed the hearts of many in the third New England that they have done more in these last few yeares towards their conversion then hath been effected by all other Nations and people that have planted there since they were first known to the habitable world as if that Prophesie were now in its fulfilling Behold I will doe a new thing now it shall spring forth shall ye not know it I will even make a way in the Wildernes and rivers in the desart c. When our Ancestors lay also in darkenesse and the shadow of death Gregory wrote divers Epistles to severall Noblemen and Bishops yea and to some Kings and Queenes of France and England these Sir H. Spelman that famous Antiquary your noble Countreyman and of alliance to divers of you calls epistolas Britannicas which are also mentioned afterwards in these he gives God thankes for their forwardnesse to further the worke of grace and desires earnestly the continuance of their bountifull and exemplary encouragement of such as were zealously employed in that Soule-worke and that is one of the two businesses entended in the following discourse which begs your assistance in your Spheres and cordiall concurrence to promote a designe of so much glory to the Lord of glory This is no new notion or motion all the royall Charters required the Gospellizing of the Natives and in the beginning of this Parliament there was an Ordinance of Lords and Commons appointing a Committee of both and their worke was among other things to advance the true Protestant Religion in America and to spread the Gospell among the Natives there and since very lately there is an Act for the promoting and propagating the Gospell of Iesus Christ in New-England I wish prosperity to all the Plantations but those of New-England deserve from hence more then ordinary favour because as by an Edict at Winchester about eighth hundred yeeres since King Ecbert commanded this Country should be called Angles-land so these your Countreymen of their owne accord and alone were and are ambitious to retain the name of their owne Nation besides this England had once an Heptarchate and then your Countrey was the chiefe of that Kingdome called Anglia Orientalis and these are the neerest of all the seven to you in name Nov-angles East-angles I pray that you would be nearest and most helpefull to them in this most Christian and Gospel-like designe which I leave with you and two or three Petitions at the throne of grace for you one is that of Moses Yee shall not doe after all the things that wee do heare this day every man whatsoever is right in his owne eyes but that ye walk by rule and not by example this is an age much enclining to Enthousiasmes and Revelations men pretend to externall and inward impulses but wee must remember though wee had a voice from heaven yet having the Scriptures wee have 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a more sure Propheticall word whereunto yee doe well that yee take heed as unto a light that shineth in a darke place untill the day dawne and the day starre arise in your hearts
how glad should wee bee when the kingdome of darknesse is empaired and there be continuall accresses to the Kingdome of Gods deare Sonne Col. 1. 14. T is our daily prayer Hallowed be thy name divulged and made glorious all the world over wee cannot better improve our interest and power then by being active industrious instruments thereof wee endeavouring as much as wee may that the Kingdoms of this world may become the Kingdomes of the Lord and of his Christ Revel 11. 15. Non est zelus sicut Zelus animarum this zeale for soules carries in the wombe thereof glory to God and honour to the zealots themselves Dan. 12. 3. and unutterable comfort and benefit to them that are warmed thereby Iam. 5. 20. and their debtors in this verily we are if the words of another Apostle be with a little mutation applyed hither for if wee be made partakers of their carnall things our duty it is also to minister unto them in spirituall things Rom. 15. 17. 3. The severall Patents to severall Planters call for this endeavour such was that first granted to the Virginians by King Iames it intended principally the propagation of the Christian faith the like is to be read in the Patents and confirmations made by him and King Charles to others And in the beginning of this Parliament that Honourable Committee of Lords and Commons were appointed chiefely for the advancement of the true Protestant Religion and further spreading of the Gospell of Christ among the Natives in America Yea and in the Charter to Mary-land the pious zeale for the spreading of the Gospel is first mentioned and what ever suggestions be made or aimes otherwise there is a speciall proviso against the pr ejudice or diminution of Gods holy and truly Christian Religion and the allegiance due to the Kings Majesty his heires and successors it is not well then if Romish designes have been mannaged there injurious to Religion and offensive to our other Plantations but herein stands the force of this Motive the mutuall and interchangeable Pact and Covenant of Donor and Receiver is in all those Charters and Patents the conversion of the Natives 4. I finde another encouragement from a Doctor lately lapsed into popery yet professing his willingnesse to returne upon Protestants successes this way for he deemes it improbable that ever they should convert any Nation or so much as any one single person except some poore wretch or other whom feare or gaine will drive or draw to any thing but if ever the historicall relation of Gods wonderfull workings upon sundry of the Indians both Governours and common people in bringing them to a willing and desired submission to the Ordinances of the Gospell and framing their hearts to an earnest enquiry after the knowledge of God the Father and Jesus Christ the Saviour of the World I say if ever those discourses come to the Doctors view hee may once againe change his minde how ever the happy progresses of our Countrey men in that worke if they be knowne and well considered of by the Papists themselves they may be carried to admiration expectation and it may be further 5. The honour of our Nation may be another argument to this undertaking that as to Charlemaine of old the Saxons owe their Christianity and those of Phrysia Dithmarse and Holsatia the Vandalls also and Hungarians It will be glorious for the Chronicles and Annalls of England that by the meanes of this Nation the Nansamonds were brought to the true and saving knowledge of Jesus Christ and so were the Sasquehannockes Wicomesses Conecktacoacks Massachuseuks Mouhacks Aberginians and others Thus will the renowne of the English name and Nation ring over all the Westerne World Gregory complaines more then once that those Angles our Ancestors were willing to become Christians but the Priests of France refused to give help and instruction The Britons also refused to joyne with Austin here in his preaching to the Saxons not out of pride and contempt as Beda reporteth but for that those people invited hither as friends became their onely enemies driving them from their possessions which themselves invaded as their owne but these Indians give harbour to our Nation whose faire and free accomodating of our Countrey men hath fully purchased to themselves all the spirituall favour wee and they are able to afford them of which when they also become sensible honour will redound to this England not onely from ours there who professe truly if they prosper we shall be the more glorious but the Natives enlightned by us will returne hither the tribute of their abundant thankfulnesse And that every one of us may be cordiall coadjutors of our Countrey men in this most glorious undertaking let me endeavour to warme the affections of the English there and at home by proposing a trafficke in a threefold stock for the promotion of this designe CHAP. VIII Further helpes to this worke THe first of these is already going the stocke of prayers both hence and thence on that behalfe to heaven and not now in a vision as to St. Paul once there stood a man and prayed him saying Come over into Macedonia and helpe us Act. 16. 9. but the Natives begin to be really sensible of their spirituall necessities and call earnestly for that bread and our countrey men desire the assistance of their brethren here in many respects all their Letters earnestly bespeak us in this and O that we did heartily answer them in our constant and fervent prayers in reference to this worke There was indeed of late a generation of men though extreme lovers of that Lethargy yet forgate to be in charity with all men they were content in their Letany to pray it would please God to have mercy upon all men yet deemed it piacular to pray for the Novangles The Directory guides otherwise even by name advising to prayers for those Plantations in the remote parts of the World 2. This worke would be much prospered by a stocke of wise and constant correspondence mutually betwixt Old and New England in regard of this businesse what progresse is made in the worke what meet to bee done for its furtherance c. Such communication of counsells would marvelously encourage and quicken the Americans conversion The French were spoiled of this help and intercourse from Brasil by the Governour Villagagno's Apostacy to Popery and t is not credible but if the poore Indians were made to understand that all the Nation of England were thus solicitous with God and among themselves in all industrious endeavours to recover them from their sinfull and lost condition by nature but they would looke up also and in earnest cooperate with them and say also it may be as was in the precedent Chapter mentioned of our Saxon King who said those Preachers should be kindly dealt with and want nothing for their worke yea somewhat like to this was long since spoken of by Colonchi
Wigwam before company To what Nation Iesus Christ came first and when If a man should be inclosed in iron a foot thicke and thrown into the fire what would become of his soul would it come forth thence Why did not God give all men good hearts How long is it before men believe that have the word of God made knowne unto them How they should know when their faith and prayers bee good Why did not God having all power kill the devill that made all men so bad If we be made so weake by sinne in our hearts how can wee come before God and sanctifie a sabbath They propounded three cases about the Sabbath In the exercises besides prayer for a blessing Mr. Elliot doth four things 1. He catechizeth the children and youth by which the aged learne 2. He preacheth out of some Scripture plainely and briefely 3. If there be cause admonition follows 4. They aske us questions and we answer them Some cases and admonitions are there mentioned 1. Wampoonas upon a light occasion beat his wife for this hee was brought before the Assembly where the quality of the sinne was opened as against Gods command cruelty to his owne body c. hee turned his face to the wall and wept hee was so penitent and melting that all forgave him but the Indians would have his fine notwithstanding his repentance which he paid also willingly Another case of was of Cutshamaquin a Sachim who had a son fourteen or fifteen yeeres old hee was drunk and behaved himselfe disobediently against his father and mother they rebuked him but he despised their admonition hee was brought before the Assembly stood out a long time though his father for his example confessed his owne faults the young man still persisted divers of us called upon him to acknowledge his offence against his parents and entreat their forgivenesse yet he refused the Indians also affectionately put him on divers spake one after another and some severall times at last hee humbled himselfe confessed his sinne and asked forgivenesse of his father taking him by the hand at which his father burst into teares he did the same to his mother who wept also as did divers others and many English wept also the house was filled with weeping wee went to prayer all the time thereof the Sachim wept so abundantly that the boord hee stood upon was all dropt with his teares Some questions were after this propounded An old Powoow asked Why we had not taught them to know God sooner Another said Before he knew God he was well but since I have knowne God and sin I finde my heart full of sin Whether their children goe when they die because they have not sinned If any of them shall goe to heaven seeing their hearts are so full of sin especially Nanwunwudsquas mad after women If they leave Powawing and pray to God what shall they doe when they are sicke having no skill in Physick What shall we say to such Indians as oppose our praying unto God and believing in Christ what get you say they by this you goe naked still and are as poore as we our corne is as good as yours and we take more pleasure then you c. They bring their cases to Mr. Elliot A Law is now among them against gaming other Indians demand their old debts which they refuse to pay because it was a sinne to play and they must not pay such sinnefull debts They tooke it to heart when Mr. Elliot told them he was afraid they were weary and cooled in their love to religion and enquired when they did heare and pray aright how they might know when they were weary of them what time it might be before the Lord might come and make them know him c. some other cases were moved by them A man before hee knew God had two wives the first is barren the second brought forth sweet children which of these must hee put away if the former they offended God if the latter they illegitimate their owne deare children And a Squaw leaves her husband commits adultery with remote Indians heares the word repents and returnes to her husband still unmarried is not he bound to receive her An old widdow Squaw said if when men know God God loves them why then are any afflicted after they know him Mr. Elliot preaching upon Ephes 5. 11. Have no fellowship c. They asked what Englishmen thought of him because he came among the wicked Indians and taught them Another said Suppose two men sin one knowes it the other doth not will God punish both alike Againe If a wise Indian teach good things to other Indians should not he be as a father or brother to such One Tutaswampe prayed at the buriall of an Indian child with such zeale variety of gracious expressions and abundance of tears that the woods rang with their sighs and prayers the Englishman that heard him said hee was ashamed of himselfe and some others that have had so great light but want such good affections Third Treatise THat woman that propounded the first question according to appointment by another man 2. Treatise p. 6. hujus p. 4. moved this also When my heart prayeth with my husband praying is this praying to God aright This woman kept at home learned quickly to spinne well held her children to labour after she submitted to the Gospel her life was exemplary she died of a sicknesse taken in childbed Mr. Elliot visited her severall times prayed with her asked her about her spirituall estate she said she still loved God though he made her sicke and was resolved to pray unto him as long as she lived and to refuse Powawing shee believed God would pardon all her sinnes because Jesus Christ dyed for her that God was well pleased in him that she was willing to die believed shee should goe to heaven and live happy with God and Christ of her owne accord she called her children and said to them I shall now die and when I am dead your grandfather grandmother and Unkles c. will send for you to live among them and promise you great matters but I charge you doe not believe them live not among them for they pray not to God keepe not the Sabbath commit all manner of sinnes and are not punisht but I charge you live here for they pray to God his word is taught sins are supprest and punish'd by lawes therefore I charge you live here all your daies she died and it fell out as she said T is observed many other Indians would come in but they have neither tooles nor skill to sence in their grounds if the word were constantly taught government exercised encouragements for the industrious with meanes to instruct them in letters trade and labour as building fishing flax hemp c. many well-minded Indians would thus be drawne together Mr. Elliot stirres up
the Ministers to learne the language and assist in the worke there is nothing else to invite but the good of soules not so much as meate drinke and lodging to be had among the Indians but such as wee must carry with us beside what wee give away to them c. Severall questions they then propounded Doth the Devill dwell in us as we dwell in an house When God saith honour thy Father and thy Mother doth he meane three Fathers our Father our Sachim and God When a soule goes to heaven what doth it say And what saith a wicked soule when it comes to hell Why did Christ die in our steads Why must we love our enemies and how shall we do it How doth Christ redeeme and deliver us from sin when every day my heart thinkes I must die and goe to Hell for my sins what shall I doe in this case How long was Adam good before he sinned If two families dwell in one house one prayeth the other doth not what shall they that pray do to them that pray not Now the Indians desire to go to heaven what shall we doe that we may goe thither when we die How shall I bring my heart to love prayer Doe not Englishmen spoile their soules to say a thing cost them more than it did and is it not all one as to steale I see why I must feare hell and do so every day but why must I fear God If I reprove a man for sin and he answer why do you speak thus angerly Mr. Elliot teacheth us to love one another is this well If a wife put away her husband because he will pray to God and she will not what must be done in this case May such women as pray to God marry those that do not pray to God If my wife doth some worke on the night before the Sabbath and on the Sabbath night also is it a sin If I do that which is a sin and know it not to be a sin what will God say to that Whether is faith set in my heart or in my minde Why have not beasts a soule as well as man seeing they have love anger c. as man hath Why doth God punish in hell for ever man doth not so but after a time lets out of prison againe What is faith How shall I know when God accepts my prayers How doth Christ make peace betwixt God and man what is the meaning of that point In wicked dreames doth the soule sin Doth the soule in heaven know things done here on earth If my heart be full of evill thoughts and I repent and pray and a few houres after it be full againe and I repent and pray againe and after this it be full of evill thoughts again what will God say What force of wicked men is lawfull and what not What if a Minister weare long haire as some other men do what will God say Why doth God so hate them that teach others to commit sinne If a man will make his daughter marry one she doth not love what will God say c. There be sundry of them begin to enquire after Baptisme and Church Ordinances and Mr. Elliot with consideration speakes solemnly not suddenly nor lightly but before the Lord As I apprehend saith he in my conscience were they but in a setled way of civility and government cohabiting together and I called according to God to live among them I durst freely joyne into Church fellowship with them and could find out at least twenty men and women in some measure fitted of the Lord for it That Indian that was Mr Elliots Interpreter and first taught him words was joyning himselfe to the Church of Dorchester and the very day of this writing was the day for the triall of that Indian in order to his admission and this was 2. of the 12. 1648. Since which time these labourers with the Lord have not been idle in this Vineyard they are digging and fencing and gathering out the stones thereof and planting it with the choisest vine c. Esa 5. 2. and though some informations of their happy endeavours have unhappily miscarried there be other passages that have arrived hither to give us assurance that they wax not faint in that Gospel worke they are not indeed yet printed but I have obtained leave to give the Reader a little taste thereof for as we here long to understand what further foot steps be made so the discoveries thereof will in due time and better manner be recommended Mr Elliot in the beginning of the last spring prepared for his journey among the Indians to a great fishing place upon Merimak and hired an Indian to mark trees and pilot him thither which he did with the helpe of some Indians they passed by other of the Natives who had heard of his preaching and were very glad of his comming that way but sicknesse prevented him at that time howbeit upon his recovery he went to another place call'd Pantuket where from all parts they meet there he asked them if those Indians were desirous to pray to God and when they said yea he demanded how many desired it they answered Wamee i. e. all The chiefe Sachim of this place had heard him before and now shewed great affection to him and the word of God using many arguments to perswade him to tarry among them saying his comming but once a yeere did them little good it was as if one should come and throw a fine thing among them and they like it well but cannot tell what is within whether something or nothing but if it be opened and they see it precious they should believe it c. Another Indian learning from Mr. Elliot that hee had five sonnes asked him if they should all teach the Indians to know God as he did which when hee affirmed the other was well pleased and Mr. Elliot himselfe much encouraged for hee had often dedicated them in his prayers to that service of the Lord desiring no better preferment for them than to be fitted for that worke hee endeavours therefore with that smal meanes he hath to traine them up in learning and God will I doubt not raise up some liberall hearts and hands to assist him therein This summer hee was making another journey but in regard of some quarrells among the Indians the Church was doubtfull at first of his going which when the Nashaway Sachim heard he took twenty men armed after their manner and was his guard with many other neerer Indians so much do they hunger after instruction this was a long journey into the wildernesse of sixty miles it proved very wet and tedious so that hee was not dry three or foure daies together night nor day but the Lord upheld him and his company in strength and health One of the Indians would needs know of Mr Elliot the reason why they that pray to God love the Indians so doing more than their owne Brethren and