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A39223	A brief narrative of the progress of the Gospel amongst the Indians in New-England, in the year 1670 given in by the Reverend Mr. John Elliot, minister of the gospel there, in a letter by him directed to the right worshipfull the commissioners under His Majesties Great-Seal for propagation of the gospel amongst the poor blind natives in those United Colonies.	Eliot, John, 1604-1690.; Company for Propagation of the Gospel in New England and the Parts Adjacent in America.	1671 (1671)	Wing E503; ESTC R3115	7,267	12

from themselves Solomon is their Teacher whom we judge to be a serious and sound Christian their Ruler is Owannamug whose grave faithful and discreet Conversation hath procured him real respect from the English One that was a Teacher in this place is the man that is now under Censure in the Church his sin was that adventitious sin which we have brought unto them Drunkenness which was never known to them before they knew us English But I account it our duty and it is much in my desire as well to teach them Wisdom to Rule such heady Creatures as skill to get them to be able to bridle their own appetites when they have means and opportunity of high-spirited enticements The Wisdom and Power of Grace is not so much seen in the beggarly want of these things as in the bridling of our selves in the use of them It is true Dominion to be able to use them and not to abuse our selves by them Nashope is our next Praying Town a place of much Affliction it was the chief place of Residence where Tahattawans lived a Sacham of the Blood a faithful and zealous Christian a strict yet gentle Ruler he was a Ruler of 50 in our Civil Order and when God took him a chief man in our Israel was taken away from us His only Son was a while vain but proved good expert in the Scripture was Elected to Rule in his Fathers place but soon died insomuch that this place is now destitute of a Ruler The Teacher of the place is Iohn Thomas a godly understanding Christian well esteemed of by the English his Father was killed by the Manquaogs shot to death as he was in the River doing his E●le-wyers This place lying in the Road-way which the Mauquaogs haunted was much molested by them and was one year wholly deserted but this year the People have taken courage and dwell upon it again In this place after the great Earthquake there was some eruption out of the Earth which left a great Hiatus or Cleft a great way together and out of some Cavities under great Rocks by a great Pond in that place th●re was a great while after often heard an h●ming noise as if there were frequent eruptions out of the Ground at that place yet for Healthfulness the place is much as other places be For Religion there be amongst them some Godly Christians who are received into the Church and baptized and others looking that way Wamesut is our next Praying-Town it lyeth at the bottom of the great Falls on the great R●ver Merymak a●d at the falling-in of Concord River the Sachem of this Place is named Nomphon said to be a Prince of the Bloud a Man of a real Noble Spirit A Brother of his was slain by the Mauquaogs as he was upon a Rock fishing in the great River In revenge whereof he went in the forementioned rash Expedition but had such about him and was so circumspect that he came well off though be lost one principal Man This place is very much annoyed by the Mauquaogs and have much ado to stand their ground In this Place Captain Gookins ordered a Garrison to be kept the last year which Order while they attended they were safe but when the Northern Sachems and Souldiers came who stirred up ours to go with them on their unsuccessful Expedition the Town was for the most part scatter'd and their Corn spoyled The Teacher of this Place is named George they have not much esteem for Religion but I am hopefully perswaded of sundry of them I can go unto them but once in a year Panatuket is the upper part of Merimak-Falls so called because of the noise which the Waters make Thither the Penagwog-Indians are come and have built a great Fort Their Sachems refused to pray to God so signally and sinfully that Captain Go●kins and my self were very sensible of it and were not without some expectation of some interposure of a Divine-Hand which did eminently come to pass for in the forenamed Expedition they joyned with the Northern Sachems and were all of them cut off even all that had so signally refused to pray unto God were now as signally rejected by God and cut off I hear not that it was ever known that so many Sachems and Men of Note were killed in one imprudent Expedition and that by a few scattered people for the Mauquaogs were not imbodied to receive them nor prepared and few at home which did much greaten the Overthrow of so many great Men and shews a divine over-ruling hand of God But now since the Penaguog-Sachems are cut off the People sundry of them dwelling at Panatuket-Fort do bow the Ear to hear and submit to pray unto God to whom Iethro after he had confest Christ and was baptized was sent to preach Christ to them Magunkukquok is another of our Praying-Towns at the remotest Westerly borders of Natick these are gathering together of some N●pmuk Indians who left their own places and sit together in this place and have given up themselves to pray unto God They have called Pomham to be their Ruler and Simon to be their Teacher This latter is accounted a good and lively Christian he is the second man among the Indians that doth experience that afflicting disease of the Stone The Ruler hath made his Preparatory Confe●sion of Christ and is approved of and at the next opportunity is to be received and baptized I obtained of the General-Court a Grant of a Tract of Land for the settlement and encouragement of this People which though as yet it be by some obstructed yet I hope we shall find some way to accomplish the same Quanatusset is the last of our Praying-Towns whose beginnings have received too much discouragement but yet the Seed is alive they are frequently with me the work is at the birth there doth only want strength to bring forth The care of this People is committed joyntly to Monatunkanit and Tuppunkkoowillin the Teachers of Hassunemesut as is abovesaid and I hope if the Lord continue my life I shall have a good account to give of that People Thus I have briefly touched some of the chiefest of our present Affairs and commit them to your Prudence to do with them what you please committing your Selves and all your weighty Affairs unto the Guidance and Blessing of the Lord I rest Roxb this 20th of the 7th month 1670. Your Worships to serve you in the Service of our Lord Iesus Iohn Elliot Books sold by John Allen. VIZ. Cotton on the Covenant new printed Confession of Faith of the Congregational Churches Mr. Hook and Mr. Davenports Catechism Astrologers Routed shewing that divining by the Stars hath no solid foundation from Scripture Reason or Experience c.