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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39225	A further accompt of the progresse of the Gospel amongst the Indians in New-England, and of the means used effectually to advance the same set forth in certaine letters sent from thence declaring a purpose of printing the Scriptures in the Indian tongue into which they are already translated : with which letters are likewise sent an epitome of some exhortations delivered by the Indians at a fast, as testimonies of their obedience tot he Gospell : as also some helps directing the Indians how to improve naturall reason unto the knowledge of the true God.	Eliot, John, 1604-1690.; Pierson, Abraham, 1608-1678. Some helps for the Indians shewing them how to improve their natural reason.; Company for Propagation of the Gospel in New England and the Parts Adjacent in America.	1659 (1659)	Wing E510; ESTC R3341	24,570	48

full of such free will offerings The Lord hath given us this amazing blow to take away my brother Mayhew His aged Father doth his endeavour to uphold the worke among the poor Indians whom by letters I have incouraged what I can and moved in his behalfe our Commissioners and they have given him some incouragement so that the work in that place is not fallen to the ground I blesse the Lord for it As for the work among us I shall for the present be silent for severall Reasons only let the work it selfe speake I am bold to present you here inclosed with a few notes which my Sonne and I gathered up which were delivered by the persons here named in a day of fasting and prayer out of which short notes you may see what life is in the work The very reason of my gathering up these notes was because my Sonne who had not been at a fast among us before was very much affected with what they delivered so far as he understood them and when I had communicated these notes to some they were very well relished thereby I was imboldened to present them to your selves not knowing but if the Lord please thereby you may have more reall information of their state and progresse then by any thing which were meet for me to say For my selfe I feele my strength to decay and I am not able to doe and bear what I have done and although temptation may sometime breed waverings yet my soul doth desire beleeve that I shall live and dye in the work And as I have dedicated my sons to serve the Lord in this work if he please to accept them so I doe it as they come up and this yeare my second son having taken his first degree in the Colledge I presented him also unto our Commissioners and he is accepted unto the work which mercy my soul doth greatly rejoyce in and I humbly beg your prayers for them that the Lord would bow their green spirits unto the worke and inable them to overlooke the difficultyes and discouragements which lye in the way and thus committing you unto the Lord and to the guidance of his holy Word I rest Yours to serve you in the Service of our dear Saviour John Eliot Roxbury this 10 th of the 10 th 1658. Here followeth a Briefe Epitomy of such Exhortations as these Indians hereafter named did deliver upon a late day of fasting and prayer at Natick much more largely 15 th of the 9 th month 1658. The causes of this fast were partly in preparation for gathering a Church and because of much rain and sicknesse and other tryalls An Exhortation from Waban an Indian The Text of Scripture he spake of was Matth. 9. 12 13. 12. But when Iesus heard that he said unto them They that be whole need not a Physitian but they that are sick 13. But goe ye and learne what that meaneth I will have mercy and not sacrifice for I came not to call the righteous but sinners to Repentance I am a poor weak man and know but little and therefore I shall say but little THese words are a similitude that as some be sick and some well and we see in experience that when we be sick we need a Phisitian goe to him and make use of his Phisick but they that be well doe not so they need it not and care not forit So it is with soul-sicknesse and we are all sick of that sicknesse in our souls but we know it not we have many at this time sick in body for which cause we do 〈◊〉 and pray this day and cry to God but more are sick in their souls we have a great many diseases and sicknesses in our souls ●…he instan●…d as Idlenesse neglect of the Sabboth Passion c. Therefore what should we doe this day goe to Christ the Phisitian for Christ is a Physitian of souls he healed mens bodies but he can heale souls also he is a great Physitian therefore let all sinners goe to him Therefore this day know what need we have of Christ and let us goe to Christ to heale us of our sins and he can heale us both soul and body Again what is that lesson which Christ would have us learne that he came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance What! Doth not God love them that be righteous Doth he not call them to him Doth not God love righteousnesse Is not God righteous Answ. The righteous here are not meant those that are truly righteous but those that are Hypocrites that seem righteous and are not that think themselves righteous but are not so indeed such God calleth not neither doth he care for them but such as see their sins and are sick of sin th●… Christ calleth to repentance and to believe in Christ therefore let us see our need of Christ to heale all our diseases of soul and body Delivered at the same time by Nishohkou another Indian The Text he spake of was Gen. 8. 20 21. 20. And Noah built an Altar unto Iehovah and took of every clean Beast and of every clean fowle and offered burnt offerings on the Altar 21. And the Lord smelled a sweet Savour and the Lord said in his heart I will not againe curse the ground any more for mans sake for the imaginations of mans heart is evill from his youth neither will I again smi●…e any more every thing living as I have done A little I shall say according to that little I know IN that Noah sacrificed to God he shewed himself thankfull in that he worshiped God he shewed himselfe godly in that he sacrificed clean beasts he shewed that God is an holy God pure and clean and all that come to God and worship him must be pure and clean and know that we must by repentance purge our selves and cleanse our hearts from all sin which is a work we are to doe this day In that he sacrificed it was the manner of worshiping God in old time but what sacrifices must we offer now Answ. By that Psal. 4. 5. Offer to God the sacrifices of righteousnesse and trust in the Lord. These are true and spirituall sacrifices which God requireth at our hands Sacrifices of Righteousnesse that is we must look to our hearts and Conversation that they be righteous and then we shall be acceptable to God when we worship him but if we be unrighteous and unholy and wicked we shall not be accepted our sacrifices are nought Againe we must trust in the Lord for who else should we trust in we must believe in the word of God for if we doubt of God and doubt of his word then our sacrifices are little worth but if we trust stedfastly in the Lord then our sacrifices are good Again what kind of sacrifices must we offer Answ. We must offer such as Abraham offered and what sacrifice did he offer Answ. see Gen. 22. 12. Now I know that thou fearest