command of our Mohanes these are their Sorcerers wee went as Souldiers towards those parts where thou hast seen thy Brethren to wage warre with them and of all those that entred there not one came backe againe alive wee made a great Armie and entring into his lands all fell downe dead so that not one escaped at last wee raised another Army for the making of which the Countrey was dispeopled wholly so that none but old men women and children remained therein which came to an end as the former had done which those who remained alive and were not gone to that warre perceiving said that the Mohanes had deceived them and were the cause of the death of their Fathers for which they deserved to be put to death having then killed many of them those that remained alive did intreat them to hearken to them and they would discover to them all the truth of that which they knew which having gotten leave declared that which followeth The God of these sonnes of Israel is the true God all that is written in his stories is true they shall be Lords of all the world in the latter end a people shall come hither which will bring many things to you and when the land shall be well provided these sonnes of Israel shall goe out of their habitations and shall become Lords of all the earth as it was theirs before if you will be happy joyne your selves to them The Indian having made an end to relate the prediction of the Mohanes followed on his discourse after this manner My Fathers were Caciques and there are yet four of them These 5 Caciques then having heard what the Mohanes had foretold as if they had been some of the Sages of the Hebrewes came and tooke their habitation neere that place to see if they could get acquaintance with some of thy Brethren They satisfied their desire after a long time by the intercession of an Indian woman because thy Brethren would never speake to our Fathers and he of us that went into their Lands did fall downe dead and none of thy Brethren did passe over to us we therefore made a League with them by the meanes of that woman under these conditions First that five men sonnes to five Caciques or their successors should come to visit them every seventy Moones and that none should come with them Secondly that the man to whom the secret was to be declared should be three hundred Moones old and that nothing of this should be revealed to him in a place inhabited but only in the open field and when it should be revealed that it should be in the company of all the Caciques thus then said the Indian wee keepe this secreet amongst us for the great reward which wee hope for the innumerable services which wee have done to thy Brethren Wee cannot go to see them but from seventy to seventy Moones if no new thing fall out there hath not been any in my time except thy arrivall which they have so much desired and waited for I finde no more but three new things according to my reckoning the first the arrivall of the Spaniards in these Countries the second that Ships arrived in the South sea and the third is thy arrivall Of all three they have greatly rejoyced for they say that the Prophecies do come to passe Moreover the said Monterinos declared that afterward hee came to Honda where the said Indian did bring to him three Indian young men not telling him their names till hee told him that hee might speake freely with them seeing they were his companions whith whom hee was in league and that the other namely the fift was old and for that cause was not able to come The three Indians did imbrace him affectionately and asked him of what Nation hee was to whom hee answered that hee was of the Hebrew Nation of the Tribe of Levi and then they imbraced him the second time and said to him Thou shalt see us one day and shalt not know us wee are thy Brethren by a speciall favour which God hath shewed us and having saluted him they went away the Indian Francis bid him also farewell and that hee went to speak with his Brethren in the company of the other Caciques As concerning this Countrey wee have all the Indians at our command and when wee shall have made an end of these cruell Spaniards wee shall goe and draw you out of the slavery wherein you are if it please God which he will permit because his word cannot faile Finis Laus Deo I Manasseh Ben Israel underwritten beare wâ—tnesse that this present paper hath been coppied with the whole truth of the originall and that the Author Monterinos is a vertous man and separate from all manner of worldly interests and that hee swore in my presence that all that which he declared was a truth MANASSEH BEN ISRAEL J. DVRY Received this at London 27 of Novem. 1649. The Reader is entreated with his pen to amend these mistakes of the Presse IN the Epistle Dedicatory remove the note at the bottome of the Margin in the third page of b to the second line of the next page Page 5. line 12. read Comestor p. 16. l. 19. r. and uneasie p. 18. l. 3. r. è contra p. 21. 1. Witekind in the margent p. 21. l. 16. r. they were p. 22. l. 23. r. Maternus p. 24. l. 19. r. records indeed p. 32. l. last r. thou p. 49. l. 28. r. Israel was p. 50. l. 8. adde should so farre and so suddenly degenerate p. 6. l. 32. r. converting p. 76. l. 31. r. for our the. p. 80. l. 20. r. your charity p. 93. l. 13. r. Leitourgy and l. 15. r. pray that p. 93. l. 15. r. holy Spirit Our books tell us p. 107. l. 30. r. too late p. 118. l. 11. r. hujus p. 113. p. 126. l. 4. r. 16 c. p. 136. l. 12. r. their lands D. Laert. p. 381. D. Heins in 2. Jo. Hesych φ Io. Maj. Hist Scot. l. 4. c. 9. Sixt. Sen. Bib. S. l. 2. R. p. 97. Wollet Comp. Theol. p. 197. Part. 1. T. 1. Ep. p. 105. lib. 5. c. 8. Nehem 3. 5. 2 Sam. 20 19. Phil. 2. 21. 1 Cor. 13. last Act. 2. 1. Psa 19. 4. Revel 6. 2. Esa 49. 6. De excid Brit. In Bal. Cent. p. 23. Hist l. 1. c. 8. p. 25. Rev. 13. 3. C. 5. 123. Not. in Bed Hist p. 257. Parâ— 3. Esa 43. 19. K. Theodoric Theodobâ—rt Clotharius Qu. Brunechild of France and to Aldibert and Aldiberga of England Concil p. 71. Holinsh Chro. part 1. p. 15. Kent Mercia West-Saxons Northumberland East-Angles East-Saxons South-Saxons Deut. 12 8. 2 Pet. 1. 19. 2 Cor. 11. 14. Psal 46. 3. Psal 27. 3. 〈◊〉 8. 12. Act. 7. 56. Tertull. 2 Cor. 5. 7. Job 14. 14. 1 Joh. 2. 18. Heb. 10. 37. Mat. 3. 12. Psal 1. 5. 1 Cor. 4. 5. 2 Thes 2. 17. 3. 3. Heb. 13. 17. Tim. 4.
drift of your spirit whereby I perceive you have been led these many yeares in some of your studies for it is very evident to me that you have sought after a matter which to most men will seem incredible rediculous and extravagant and to tell you the truth before I had read your discourse and seriously weighed matters when I thought upon your theme that the Americans should be of the seed of Israell it seemed to me somewhat strange and unlikely to have any truth in it but afterward when I had weighed your deduction of the matter and lookt seriously upon Gods hand in bringing into those parts of the World where the Americans are so many religious professors zealous for the advancement of his glory and who are possessed with a beliefe from the Scriptures that all the Tribes of Israell shall be called to the knowledge of Jesus Christ before the the end of the world and when I had recollected and laid together some other scattered and confused thoughts which at several times I have received partly from the places of Scripture which foretell the calling of the Jewes and their restitution to their owne land together with the bringing back of the ten Tribes from all the ends and corners of the earth partly from some relations which I had heard a few yeeres agoe concerning the ten Tribes which the Jewes here in Europe had given out and partly from the observations of Gods way which he seemes to make by all these changes and the dissolution of the States and Empires of the world towards some great worke and extraordinary revolution which may shortly come to passe all which things when I had called to mind and represented unto my selfe I was so far from derogating any thing from that which you have conjectured concerning the American Indians that I beganne to stand amazed at the appearances of the probabilities which so many waies offered themselves unto me to make out and confirme the effect of that which you have said And then I begun also upon another account to wonder at the strangenesse of Gods conduct over your spirit that he should have set you a worke twelve or more yeeres agoe after the search of such a matter by historicall observations whereof then so few and almost no footsteps at all were extant to be traced and whereof now of a suddaine the world is like to be filled with such evidences that it wil be an astonishment to all that shall heare of it and lay it to heart and that all who have any ingenuity will be constrained to confesse that indeed there is a God who ruleth in the earth and that he hath ordered the affaires of the Nations by an universal providence to bring to passe his own counsels and that the things which hee hath revealed by his word should in the latter times be accomplished for to my apprehension this will be the great benefit of these discoveries namely that the mouths of Atheists will be stopped and convicted of irrationality and foolishnesse For when it shall appear to all men undeniably that the transmigration of Nations and the affaires of this world have not been carried hitherto by meere chance or by the craftinesse of humane counsels or by force but by the wisdome of a Supreame conduct who hath ordered all things from the beginning towards an end which hath been foreknown and to a designe foretold I say when this shall appeare and that in the midst of all these changes and confusions there is a conduct over-ruling the force of man and disappointing the councels of the crafty then the eyes of all men will be upon the Lord and God alone will be exalted in righteousnesse and the Holy one of Israell in judgement For seeing it is evident that the ten Tribes of Israell have been as it were lost in the world neare about the space of two thuusand yeeres if now they should againe appeare upon the stage first as it were in another world by themselves and then afterward speedily come from thence hither to the land of their ancient inheritance where they shall be joyned to their brethren the Jews which is clearly foretold by the Prophets shall come to passe if I say those things should now begin to come to passe what can all the world say otherwise but that the Lords counsell doth stand and that he hath fulfilled the words spoken by his Servants the Prophets concerning Israel that although all the sinfull kingdoms of the Nations shall be destroyed from off the face of the earth yet that the house of Jacob shall not be utterly destroyed but shall be corrected in measure for loe I will command saith God by the Prophet and I will sift the house of Israell among all Nations like as corne is sifted in the sieve yet shall not the least graine fall upon the earth These Prophecies must needs be fulfilled if there be a God in heaven who hath foretold them and when he shall make this his word good unto Israell he will thereby make it undeniably apparent that it was he himselfe and none other who did foretell it and that it is also none but hee who brings the worke about beyond all humane appearances according as he did foretell it and by all this he will shew to all the world that which he oft-times repeates by the Prophet Isaiah that he alone is the Saviour and that there is none besides him Isa 45. 5 6 15. till the end The destruction then of the spirituall Babylon by the restauration of Israel shall make out this to all the earth that God alone is the Lord over all and the Saviour of the people that put their trust in his name Now the appearances which offer themselves unto me that these Prophecies are towards their accomplishment are many which now I shall not insist upon perhaps God will direct me to declare them in due season more fully then now I can intend but I shall onely mention that which I find to be a confirmation of your conjecture leaving it to your owne discretion what use you will make of it First then I shall impart unto you some stories which I heard five or six yeeres agoe when I was in the Low Countries concerning the ten Tribes and then I shall adde some information concerning the state of the Iewes in our Europaean and Asiaatique worlds which I have learned at other times by some providences which God hath offered unto mee and upon the whole matter I shall leave you to your further conjectures by that which I shall guesse at The first story which I heard was at the Hague a person of chief quality about the Queen of Bohemia and one of her Counsell and a discerning godly man and my speciall friend told me that the Jew a Jeweller residing ordinarily at the Hague whom I knew had been there at Court and with great joy had told that they of his Nation had received from
Constantinople Letters bringing to them glad tidings of two speciall matters fallen out there the one was that the Grand Seignior had remitted the great taxes which formerly had been laid upon the Jewes of those parts so that now they were in a manner free from all burthens paying but a small and inconsiderable matter to that Empire the other was that a messenger was come unto the Jewes who reside neere about the Holy Land from the ten Tribes to make enquiry concerning the state of the Land and what was become of the two Tribes and the half which was left in it when they were transported from thence by Salmanasser This Messenger was described to be a grave man having some attendance in good equipage about him He told them that the people from which hee was sent were the Tribes of Israel which in the daies of Hosea the King were carried captives out of their owne Land by the King of Assyria who transported them from Samaria into Assyria and the Cities of the Medes but they being grieved for the tronsgressions which caused God to be angry with them they tooke a resolution to separate themselves from all Idolaters and so went from the Heathen where they were placed by Salmanassar with a resolution to live by themselves and observe the Commandements of God which in their owne Land they had not observed in prosecuting this resolution after a long journey of a yeere and six moneths they came to a countrey wholly destitute of inhabitants where now they have increased into a great Nation and are to come from thence into their owne Land by the direction of God and to shew them that hee was a true Israelite hee had brought with him a Scroule of the Law of Moses written according to their custome The Gentleman who told me this story as from the mouth of the Jew said that it brought to his mind fully by reason of the agreement of circumstances almost in all things the story which is recorded in the Second Booke of Esdras which is called Apocrypha Chap. 13. ver 40. till 50. which will be found a truth if that Messenger came and made this Narrative This was the first story and not long after viz. Within the space of five or six moneths a little before I came from the Low Countries I was told of a Jew who came from America to Amsterdam and brought to the Jewes residing there newes concerning the ten Tribes that hee had been with them upon the border of their Land and had conversed with some of them for a short space and seen and heard remarkable things whiles he stayed with them whereof then I could not learn the true particulars but I heard that a Narrative was made in writing of that which he had related which before I went from Holland last I had no time to seeke after but since the reading of your Booke and some discourse I have had with you about these matters I have procured it from the Low Countries and received a Copie thereof in French attested under Manasseh Ben Israel his hand that it doth exactly agree with the originall as it was sent me the translation thereof I have truly made without adding or taking away any thing and because I was not satisfied in some things and desired to know how farre the whole matter was believed among the Jewes at Amsterdam I wrote to Manasseh Ben Israel their chiefe Rabbi about it and his answer I have gotten in two Letters telling me that by the occasion of the Questions which I proposed unto him concerning this adjoyned Narrative of Mr. Antonie Monterinos hee to give me satisfaction had written insteed of a Letter a Treatise which hee shortly would publish and whereof I should receive so many Copies as I should desire In his first Letter dated Novem. last 25. he saies that in his treatise he handles of the first inhabitants of America which he believes were of the ten Tribes moreover that they are scattered also in other Countries which he names and that they keepe their true Religion as hoping to returne againe into the Holy land in due time In his second Letter dated the twenty three of December he saies more distinctly thus I declare how that our Israelites were the first finders out of America not regarding the opinions of other men which I thought good to refute in few words onely and I thinke that the ten Tribes live not onely there but also in other lands scattered every where these never did come backe to the second Temple and they keep till this day still the Jewish Religion seeing all the Prophecies which speake of their bringing backe unto their native Soile must be fulfilled So then at their appointed time all the Tribes shall meet from all the parts of the world into two provinces namely Assyria and Egypt nor shall their Kingdome be any more divided but they shall have one Prince the Messiah the Sonne of David I do also set forth the Inquisition of Spaine and rehearse divers of our Nation and also of Christians Martyrs who in our times have suffered severall sorts of torments and then having shewed with what great honours our Jewes have been graced also by severall Princes who professe Christianity I prove at large that the day of the promised Messiah unto us doth draw neer upon which occasion I explaine many Prophecies c. By all which you see his full agreement with your conjecture concerning the Americans that they are descended of the Hebrewes when his booke comes to my hand you shall have it God willing In the meane time I shall adde some of my conjectures concerning the Jewes which live on this side of the world with us in Europe and Asia these are of two sorts or Sects the one is of Pharisees the other of Caraits the Pharisees in Europe and Asia are in number farre beyond the Caraits they differ from one another wheresoever they are as Protestants doe from Papists for the Pharisees as the Papists attribute more to the Authoritie and traditions of their Rabbies and Fathers then to the word of God but the Caraits will receive nothing for a rule of faith and obedience but what is delivered from the word of God immediately and their name imports their profession that they are readers of the Text or Textuaries for so the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 you know when it relates to bookes and writings is to be rendred These two Sects are irreconcilably opposite to each other and as the Papists deale with Protestants so do the Pharisees with the Caraits they persecute and suppres them and their profession by all the meanes they can possibly make use of Nay as Mr Ritangle of whom I have all the informations which I know concerning the Caraits tels me the hatred of the Pharisees is so fierce against their opposites the Caraits that they have Anathematized them so as never to be reconciled unto them insomuch that
yea in Hispaniola alone scarce one hundred and fifty of two millions were left alive In another place hee professeth their tyranny was so cruell and detestable that in fourty six yeeres space they caused he verily believed more than fifty millions of them to pay their last debt to nature for I speak saith hee the truth and what I saw they dealt with the poore Indians not as with beasts hoc enim peroptarem but as if they had bin the most abject dung of the earth and is this the way saith Benzo to convert Infidels Such kindnesse they shewed to other places also Cuba Iamaica Portu ricco c. It was said against Israell Cursed shall thy basket be and thy store ver 17. the fruit of thy land the encrease of thy cattle ver 18. all shall be devoured by enemies and other Nations c. ver 30 c. For very much is said of their suffering in riches and honour c. And the Spanish Christians that brake into America shewed themselves so covetous of their treasure that the Natives with wonder said surely gold is the Spaniards God they broiled noble Indians on gridirons to extort from them their hidden wealth giving no respect at all to their Caciques or Kings Memorable in many respects is the History of Attabaliba the great King of Peru who being conquered and captivated by Francis Pizarro redeemed his liberty by the promise of so many golden and silver vessels as should fill the roome where they were so high as one could reach with his hand and they were to take none away till he had brought in the whole summe expecting thereupon according to covenant his freedome and honour he dispatched his officers and servants with great care and diligence and did faithfully performe his bargaine in bringing that vast heape of treasure together but they resolve neverthelesse most impiously to murder him though with many arguments and tears he pleaded for his life desiring sometime to be sent unto Caesar then expostulating with them for their perfidiousnesse and falsehood but neither words nor weeping nor their owne inward guilt could mollifie those hard hearts they sentence him to death by a rope and the cruell execution followed but Benzo observed a miraculous hand of vengeance from heaven upon all that gave consent thereto so that as Suetonius records of Caesars stobbers Nullus corum sua morte defunctus est every one of them found that consultation and contrivance fatall Almager is hanged Didacus his sonne is slaine by Vacca de Castro the Indians kill Iohn Pizarro at Cusco who fell upon Fryar Vincent also of the green valley and slew him with clubs in the Isle Puna Ferdinandus Pizarro was sent into Spain where he consumed his daies in a prison Gonsallus Pizarro was taken by Gasca and hewen in pieces and Francis Pizarro that was the President and gave judgement died an evill death also being slaine by his owne Countrey men in that strange land so just was God in avenging so perfidious a regicide and King-murder so ominous was their presumption against the honourable vile swine-herds sentencing so great a King to so foule a death those are his words in whom and his interpreter he that please may read further those murderers were base in birth and life and they instance in despicable particulars It were endlesse to mention all the parallels that the Spaniards have drawne upon the poore Indians according to the threats of God upon the sinning Jewes Deut. 28. 43 The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high and thox shalt come downe very low 48. Thou shalt serve thine enemy in hunger and thirst and nakednesse and in want of all things and he shall put a yoake of iron upon thy necke till he have destroyed thee 59. The Lord will make thy plagues wonderfull c. 61. And every plague which is not written in this Law will the Lord bring upon thee untill thou be destroyed Their Kings and Caciques were no more regarded by them than the meanest they enthralled all the Natives in most woefull servitude and captivity their sufferings have bin most wonderfull such as the Book of the Law hath not registred nor any other record they spared no age nor sex not women with childe they laid wagers who could digge deepest into the bodies of men at one blow or with most dexterity cut off their heads they tooke infants from their mothers breasts and dash'd their innocent heads against the rockes they cast others into the rivers with scorne making themselves merry at the manner of their falling into the water they set up severall gallowses and hung upon them thirteen Indians in honour they said of Christ and his twelve Apostles And yet further the same Bishop mervailes at the abominable blindnesse and blasphemy of his Countrymen impropriating their bloudy crimes unto God himselfe giving him thanks in their prosperous tyrannies like those thieves and Tyrants he sayth spoken of by the Prophet Zachary 11. 5. They kill and hold themselves not guilty and they that sell them say Blessed be the Lord for I am rich And now if all these parallels will not amount to a probability one thing more shall be added which is the dispersion of the Jewes t is said The Lord shall scatter thee among all people from one end of the earth even to the other c. Deut. 28. 64. The whole remnant of thee I will scatter into all winds Ezek. 5. 10 12 14. Zach. 2. 6. I have spread you as the foure winds of heaven Now if it be considered how punctuall and faithfull God is in performing his promises and threats mentioned in the Scripture of truth wee shall have cause to looke for the Jewes in America one great very great part of the earth Esay had said 1. 8. The daughter of Syon shall be left as a lodge in a garden of Cucumbers and as Helena found it in her time pomorum custodium an Apple-yard so Cyrill affirmeth in his daies it was a place full of Cucumbers Ieremies prophecies of Babylons destruction even in the circumstances thereof are particularly acknowledged and related by Xenophon The Lord had threatned to bring a Nation upon Israell swift as the Eagle flieth Deut. 28. 49. Iosephus saith this was verified in Vespatians Ensigne and the banner of Cyrus was an Eagle also as the same Xenophon relateth and if the Jewes bee not now never were in America how have they been dispersed into all parts of the earth this being indeed so large a portion of it how have they bin scattered into all the four windes if one of the foure did never blow upon them Much more might be said of their sufferings from the Spaniards whom the barbarous Indians thereupon counted so barbarous and inhumane that they supposed them not to come into the world like other people as if it were impossible that
time and the sea two insatiable devourers have made the gap wider But the question is not in what age before or since the Incarnation of our Lord the Jewes tooke their long journey and planted there but how the way was passable for them Malvenda speakes confidently that they might come into Tartary and by the deserts into Grotland on which side America is open and Mr Brerewood assures us that the North part of Asia is possessed by Tartars and if it be not one Continent with America as some suppose yet doubtlesse they are divided by a very narrow channell because there be abundance of Beares Lions Tigers and Wolves in the Land which surely men would not transport to their owne danger and detriment those greater beasts indeed are of strength to swimme over Sea many miles and this is generally observed of Beares and Herrera saith the inhabitants of the West Indies came thither by land for those Provinces touch upon the Continent of Asia Africa and Europe though it be not yet fully discovered how and where the two worlds be conjoyned or if any sea doe passe between them they are straites so narrow that beasts might easily swimme and men get over even with small vessells Our Countrey man Nich. Fuller gives in his suitable verdit for the facile passing into Columbina so he calls it from the famous first discoverer saying from other places they might find severall Islands not farre distant each from other and a narrow cut at last through which passengers might easily be conveyed and Acosta tells that about Florida the land runs out very large towards the North and as they say joynes with the Scythique or German Sea and after some other such mentionings he concludes confidently there is no reason or experience that doth contradict my conceit that all the parts of the Earth be united and joyned in some place or other or at least approach very neere together and that is his conclusive sentence It is an indubitable thing that the one world is continued and joyned with the other CHAP. III. Answer to Question 2. How such a remnant should enpeople so great a part of the world THE whole Countrey of Jewry whence wee would have it probable that the Americans came is not above one hundred and sixty miles long from Dan to Beersheba and the breadth is but sixty miles from Ioppa to Iordan in St. Ieromes account who knew it so well and how some few Colonies as it were removing from thence should multiply into such numbers that so large a Countrey should be filled by them is a scruple that hath troubled some considering men America in the latitude of it is is foure thousand miles and Bishop Casa's hath said already that the Spaniards in his time had forraged and spoyled Countries longer then all Europe and a great part of Asia it seemes incredible therefore that the Incommers who were but few in comparison as a little flocke of Kids should so marvelously spread into all the Westerne World for the Americans before that Spanish devastation filled all the Countrey But this will not seeme so difficult if former examples be taken into consideration some have made speciall observation of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 such as had many children t is much that Acosta writes of one of the Inguas or Kings of Peru that hee had above three hundred sonnes and grandchildren t is more that Philo Iudeus tells of Noah the Patriarke who lived hee saith to see twenty foure thousand proceeding from him all males for women were not numbred We use to say Rome was not built in one day and indeed Eutropius speaking of the Empire of that City saith at first none was lesse but in its increment it exceeded all others by many degrees so that he who reades the story thereof reads not the acts of one people but of all Nations saith Florus yea and Seneca looking on Rome in its minority and her immense magnitude afterward is amazed thereat this one people saith he how many Colonies did it send into all Provinces he writes of numerous encreases from other Cities also as Athens and Miletus but it will be nearer to our purpose to observe how small the number of Israell was at his first discent into Egypt how short a time they tarried there what cruell waies were taken to stop their encrease and yet how much and how marvelously they multiplied and then it will not be strange that a farre greater number in a longer time should or might grow into such vast multitudes And for the first t is most certaine all the soules of the house of Iacob which came into Egypt were seventy Gen. 46. 27. T is true also though not to all so manifest that the time of their abode in Egypt was about two hundred and fifteen yeers and not more at first appearance indeed it seems to be otherwise because wee read Exod. 12. 40. The sojourning of the children of Israell who dwelt in Egypt was foure hundred and thirty yeeres but the Septuagints addition is here remarkable 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They dwelt in Egypt and in the Land of Canaan they and their Fathers foure hundred and thirty yeeres and this is one of those thirteen mutations that the seventy Interpreters made when at King Ptolomes appointment they translated the Scripture into Greeke which they said was done rightly by them for Israell was indeed in Egypt but two hundred and ten yeeres which collection they make from the numerall letters of that speech of Iacob Gen. 42. 2. ו 6 ד 4 ר 200 and there be many impressions in the Scripture evidencing that their abode in Egypt was according to this computation Saint Paul first taught this high point of Chronology where and how the account must begin namely at the time when the promise was made to Abraham for the Law was foure hundred and thirty yeeres after Gal. 3. 16 17. God bidding Abraham get out of his owne countrey c. Gen. 12. 1. makes a Covenant with him ver 2. 3. and Abraham was then seventy five yeeres old ver 4. Isaac is borne twenty five yeeres after Gen. 21. 5. Iacobs birth is sixty yeeres after that Gen. 25. 26. Iacob was one hundred and thirty yeeres old when hee went downe into Egypt Gen. 47. 28. which together make two hundred and fifteen yeeres and two hundred and fifteen yeeres after they came all out of Egypt for when the foure hundred and thirty yeeres were expired even the selfe same day departed all the Hosts of the Lord out of the land of Egypt Exod. 12. 41. The computation of Suidas in the margent is consonant hereunto and how these seventy in the space of two hundred fifteen yeers did encrease is next to be declared which is also plainly expressed ver 37. They tooke their journey from Rameses to Succoth about six hundred thousand men
on foot beside children so great a multiplication of so few in so short a time may easily convince the possibility of a far greater augmentation from a beginning so vastly different and the continuance so much surmounting The Spaniards first comming into America was about the yeere one thousand foure hundred and ninety the great dispersion of the Jewes immediately after our Saviours death at the destruction of Ierusalem was more then fourteen hundred yeeres before and their former importation into the City of the Medes was seven hundred and fourty yeeres before that if therefore upon either of the scatterings of that Nation two thousand or fourteen hundred yeeres or lesse then either number be allowed for the encrease of those that were very many before such multitudes will not be miraculous besides in all that time no forraign power did breake in among them there were thence no transplantations of Colonies no warres did eate up the inhabitants but such light battailes as they were able to manage among themselves in all that long time they did encrease and multiply without any extraordinary diminution till that incredible havocke which was made by the Spanish invasions and cruelties CHAP. IV. Answer to the third Quaere about their becomming so barbarous IF such a passage through Tartary or some other Countrey for them were granted and the probability of so numerous multiplication acknowledged the perswasion will not yet be easie that Jewes should ever become so barbarous horrid and inhumane as bookes generally relate of these Americans Villagagno writing of the Brasilians to Master Calvin speakes as if he had bin uncertaine at first whether he were come among beasts in an humane shape so stupid he found them and sottish beyond imagination But here every reader may take occasion to bemoane the woefull condition of mankinde and into what rude grosse and unmanlike barbarities we runne headlong if the goodnesse of God prevent us not Wee marvaile at the Americans for their nakednesse and man-devouring we cannot believe the Jewes should be given over to such barbarity But in our own Nation the Inhabitants were anciently as rude and horrid 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith Herodian the Britons knew not the use of apparell lest their cloathing should hide the severall formes and figures of beasts and other creatures which they paint and imprint upon their bodies and Hierome saith when he was a young man he saw the Scots Gentem Britannicam humanis vesci carnibus and that even here of old were Anthropophagi is averred by Diodorus Siculus and Strabo And to what hath bin said of the Jewes formerly shall here be added It seemes strange to us if they be Jewes they should forget their religion and be so odiously idolatrous although after so many yeeres but if the Scripture had not spoken it could it have bin believed of this very people that they should fall so often into such foule offences as if circumstances be considered have no parallell Israel when but newly delivered out of Egypt by many signes and wonders with severall evident and miraculous impressions of Gods Majesty and power yet in six moneths space all is forgotten they make unto themselves a God of their owne attributing unto it all their deliverance and say These be thy Gods O Israrael which brought thee out of the land of Egypt Exod. 32. 4. which base Idoll of theirs had not it s nothing till they were all come out safe thence who can sufficiently wonder that those very people who saw and heard those terrible things mentioned Exod. 19 20. which forced them to say but a while before to Moses Talke thou with us and wee will heare but let not God talke with us least wee die Exod. 20. 19. Yea God himselfe seems to admire at this and for this to disowne them telling Moses Thy people which thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt they are soon turned out of the way c. Exod. 32. 8. It may seeme past beliefe any of Iacobs race should be so unnaturall as to devoure one another as is frequent among these Indians and would it not bee as much beyond credit if the Scripture of truth Dan. 10. 21. had not asserted it that these sonnes of Iacob in former times when they had Priests and Prophets among them and the remembrance of Gods justice and mercy was fresh in their minds That they should then offer their sonnes and daughters unto devills Psal 106. 36. as they did in the valley of Hinnom 2 King 23. 10. smiting on the Tabrets while their children were burning that their cry could not be heard t is not impossible therefore that the Jews should be againe overwhelmed with such savagenesses and inhumanity nor improbable neither if to what hath bin said three other things be added 1. The threats of God against them upon their disobedience Deut. 28. where be words and curses sufficient to portend the greatest calamity that can be conceived to fall upon the nature of man as hath already bin in severall things declared and M. Paris so answers the objection that the Tartars are not Jewish because they know nothing of Moses Law nor righteousnesse c. If when Moses was alive saith he they were so stubborne and rebellious and went after other Gods they may be now much more prodigiously wicked even as these Americans being unknowne to other people confounded also in their language and life and God so revenging their abominations 2. The ten Tribes in their owne land were become extreamely barbarous renouncing all almost they had received from Moses Ezek. 36. 17. 2 King 17. their captivity is mentioned and the sinfull cause thereof more then abominable Idolatries and they were not onely guilty of wicked but even of witlesse impieties God forbad them to walke after the customes of the Nations Deut. 4. 8. and yet as the Heathen in all their Cities they built high places making Images and groves upon every high hill and under every green tree and made their sonnes and daughters to passe through the fire using witchcraft and enchantment c. 2 King 17. 8 9. This was their religion and wisdome while they were in their own Countrey and they were no better in the land of their captivity for it may be they had not there the books of the Law nor any Prophets among them because t is said againe and againe They left the commandments of their God And if it seeme unlikely that the Jewes being in America should lose the Bible the Law and ceremonies then let the Prophesie of Hosea be remembred where t is foretold that the children of Israel shall remaine many daies without a King and without a Prince and without a Sacrifice and without an Ephod and without a Teraphim Hose 3. 4. Yea and before that time there was a lamentable defection of religion in Israell While they were in their owne land for a long season they were
travailes doth not onely remember this but sheweth it to have bin mentioned by many worthy men of late and ancient times as Cynwic ap Greue Meredith ap Rhice Gul. Owen Lloyd Powell Hackluit Davis Broughton And Purchas l. 4. c. 13. p. 807. But yet more particularly Dr Donne allowes that as a justifiable reason of mens removall from one place to another publique benefit Interest Reipublicae ut re sua quis bene utatur every one must use his private for the common good and if a State may take order that every man improve what he hath for the benefit of the Nation where he lives then interest mundo all mankinde may every where as farre as it is able advance the good of mankinde in generall which not being done by the Natives there others are bound at least have liberty to interpose their endeavours especially when by divine providence one land swells with inhabitants and another is disempeopled by mutuall broiles infectious diseases or the cruelty of Invaders all which have helped to sweepe away the Americans while the English in the meanetime did multiply in such manner and measure as they could scarcely dwell one by another and because man is commanded more than once to bring forth multiply and fill the earth Gen. 1. 28. 9. 1. he may well therefore and justly looke abroad and if he finde convenient and quiet habitation he may call the name of that land Rehoboth because the Lord hath made him roome Gen. 22. 26. That is also a lawfull cause of setling in other lands when a right therein is acquired by purchase as Abraham bought of Ephron the field of Machpelah Gen. 22. 17. And thus Paspehai one of the Indian Kings sold unto the English in Virginia land to inhabit and inherit and when Mr Williams of late called upon our Planters in New England to be humbled for making use of the Kings Patents for removing hence and residing there he is well answered among other things that they had those lands from the Natives by way of purchase and free consent Againe the Territories of strangers may be possessed upon the donation and fore-gift of the naturall Inhabitants as Abimelech said to Abraham behold the land is before thee dwell where it pleaseth thee Gen. 20. 15. and Pharaoh said to Ioseph in the land of Goshen let thy father and brethren dwell Gen. 47. 5 6. So in Virginia King Powhatan desired the English to come from Iames Town a place unwholsome and take possession of another whole Kingdome which he gave them thus the surviving Indians were glad of the comming of the English to preserve them from the oppression of the next borderers and surely divine providence making way the care of emprovement the purchase from the Natives their invitation and gift some or all these may satisfie the most scrupulous in their undertaking or else what will such our inquisitors say to maintaine the right of their owne inheritances The English invaded the Britons the ancient inhabitants of this Island and crowded them into the nooke of Wales themselves in the meane time taking possession of the fat of this Land by what right or by what wrong I dispute not saith Crantzius but such in those daies were the frequent emigrations of people to seeke out new habitations To these that other expression of the eloquent Deane may be added accepistis potestatem you have your Commissions your Patents your Charters your Seale from that soveraigne power upon whose acts any private subject in civill matters may rely and though our forenamed Country-man seemeth to slight the Pattent of New-England as containing matter of falsehood and injustice that imputation also is sufficiently removed by Mr Cotton in that his answer before mentioned And yet further the desire and endeavour to plant Christianity there will fortifie the former reasons and sufficiently vindicate the transplantation of people this seales the great seale saith that Doctor authorizeth authority and justifies justice it selfe and Christians may have learned this from our deare Master Christ who coasted the Countrey and crossed the seas saith Chrysologus not to satisfie humane curiosity but to promote mans salvation not to see diversities of places but to seeke and finde and save lost mankinde And if such be the aime of our Nation there we may with more comfort expect and enjoy the externalls of the Indians when wee pay them our spiritualls for their temporalls an easie and yet most glorious exchange the salvation of the salvages to the hope of the one the like sound of the other may give encouragement but that is the next consideration CHAP. II. Hope of the Natives conversion SAint Paul enforced himselfe to preach the Gospell where Christ was not yet named Rom. 15. 20. such is the condition of that forlorne Nation a good subject to worke upon and if so good an end be propounded the successe by divine blessing will be answerable and though the Countrey hath been knowne more than a Century of yeeres to Christians yet those that came first among them minded nothing lesse than to make them such Benzo relates abundantly how the Spaniards laid the foundation of their endeavours in bloud their Fryers and religious persons at first instigating them thereto That Christian King indeed gave them leave to subdue the Caniballs but they destinate all the Nations to bitter bondage proceeding therein with so much rigour and severity that the Dominicans are constrained at length to complaine thereof to the Pope Paul the third imploring from him a Bull for the reinfranchisement of the Indians which they obtained and brought into Spaine and presented it to Charles the fifth who made them free to the griefe and losse of some of the Grandees whose wealth and grandour consisted most in slaves they were most prodigiously libidinous also contracting upon themselves most foule and pernicious diseases that loathsome lust first brought into this world the filthy and infectious contagion now so much spoken of Their covetousnesse was notorious also the Indians scorned them for it and for their sakes abominated the name of Christianity and when they tooke any of the Spaniards they would bind their hands cast them upon their backs and poure gold into their mouths saying Eate O Christians eate this gold Yea their lives were generally so odious and opposite to godlinesse that the same writer professeth their scandalous conversation deterred the Americans from the Gospell they did indeed teach some children of their Kings and Nobles to read and write and understand the principles of Christianity which they acknowledged to be good and wondered that the Christians themselves so little practised them and thus one of them bespake a Spaniard O Christian thy God forbids thee to take his name in vaine and yet thou swearest upon every light occasion and forswearest your God saith you shall not beare false witnesse and you doe nothing
thou hast the courage and boldnesse to follow me thou shalt know all what thou desirest but I tell thee before hand thou must go a foot and eate roasted Mayz and do that which I shall bid thee the said Monterinos answered that hee would not at all transgresse his orders the day following which was Monday the Indian came to the said Monterinos and bid him take out all that which he had in his pockets put on his Alpergatas these are a certaine sort of shooes which the Indians weare and take this staffe and follow him which the said Monterinos did leaving his cloake and his sword and all what hee had and so they followed on their way the Indian carrying on his backe three measures of roasted Mayz two ropes the one made with knots and an hooke with two teeth to climbe up by the Mountaine and the other untied to be made use of in the Marshes and passages of Rivers with a little Axe and the Alpergatas they went then after this manner the whole weeke till Saturday on which they rested and returned to follow their course the whole Sunday and Monday on Thursday about eight of the clocke they came to a River as broad as the Duero in Spaine and the Indian said unto him thou shalt here see thy Brethren and making a flag of two peeces of Cotten cloath which were their girdles made a signe after which they saw a great smoake and in a moment afterward the same signe with another flagge and it was not long after that they saw in a Boat comming to them three men and one woman which being arrived to the banke of the River the woman leapt a shoare and the men tarried in the Boate which after a long discourse which shee had with the Indian which the said Monterinos could not at all understand went back to the Boate and told the three men all that shee had heard of the Indian which came instantly out of the Boate having alwaies lookt with attention upon him viz. the said Monterinos and did embrace him and the woman did the like after this one of the three men went backe againe to the Boate and the other two together with the woman did stay there which comming neer unto the Indian hee did prostrate himselfe at their feete and they received him with demonstrations of civility and affection and begun to talke with him after a little while the Indian said to Mr Monterinos be not amazed and doe not believe that these men will tell thee a second thing before thou hast well understood the first the two men instantly put him between them and told him the verse following in Hebrew out of Deut. Chap. 6. vers 4. Semah Israel Adonay Elohim Adonay Ehad Heare O Israel the Lord our God is one Lord and hee informing himselfe of every thing by the Indian Interpreter and learning to say it in the Spanish tongue the two men told him that which followeth putting a little space of time between one sentence and another 1. My Fathers are called Abraham Isaac Iacob and Israel and they named them all foure with three fingers and then they added Reuben making a sign with foure fingers 2. All such as will come and dwell with us we will give them lands 3. Ioseph dwells in the mids of the sea making a signe with two fingers shut and afterwards dividing the same into two parts 4. Wee shall all one day speake together uttering with the mouth ba ba ba and shall come forth as the earth had brought us forth 5. Wee shall goe out from hence shortly speaking hastily some of us to looke out and to make water and saying these words they winked with their eies and thrust their feet to the ground 6. A Messenger shall go 7. Francis shall say somewhat more making a signe with the fingers that it would be a little 8. Give us time to make our selves ready and shaking their hand on all sides said with their mouth and with their hands stay not long 9. Send 12 men making a signe that all shall have beards and be able to write These discourses being all ended which lasted all that day they came backe and told him the same Wednesday and Thursday not adding a word more thereunto And Monterinos being wearied that they answered him nothing to that which hee asked and that they would not permit him to passe the River did draw neere the Boate in a dissembling way and would have cast himselfe therein to goe to the other side but they thrust her from the shoare with a staffe and the said Monterinos falling into the water hee was in danger of being drowned because he could not swimme the men cast themselves suddenly into the water and drew him out and shewing themselves angry said unto him doe not think that thou wilt bring to passe thy purpose by force which the Indian declared unto him and they shewed unto him by signes and words Notice is to be taken that the Boat for the space of those three daies did not at all stay in one place but four men went and foure other came which all of them said the same nine things which we have mentioned being all the men who during that time came to see him about 300 more or lesse These men are somewhat burnt with the Sunne some of them weare their haire to their knees some others shorter and others as wee use to weare it faire bodies good countenances well made of foot and leg with a linnen about their heads Moreover the said Mr Monterinos declared that going from that place on Thursday at night with a great deale of provision which they brought to him he tooke his leave of them having been entertained by them during the three daies which he staied there and having shewed him how they enjoyed all things which the Spaniards have in the Indies aswell of meates as of other things needfull for the life of man Being come the same day to the place where they had lien the night before Mr Monterinos said to the Indian Francis thou dost know that my Brethren said unto me that thou shouldest tell me something therefore I pray thee tell it now to satisfie my desire whereunto the Indian said I shall tell thee what I know if thou wilt not anger mee and shall relate unto thee the truth so as I have heard it from my Ancestors but if thou dost vex me which I apprehend perceiving thee to be so speculatif thou wilt oblige me to tell thee lies so then I beseech thee take onely heed to what I shall say unto thee Thy Brethren the sonnes of Israel were by divine providence brought into these Countrys God doing many miracles for them which thou wouldst not believe if I should tell them to thee as I have heard them of my Fathers Wee Indians went into those Countries and made warre against them and did use them worse then the Spaniards doe us Afterwards by the
Sac. p. 716. c Acost Benzo Pet. Mart. Lerius c. d Io. de Laet in Grot. part p. 71. e Bucholz Chro. mei p. 136. f De Vit. Constant l. 2. c. 65. g Pet Mart. Decad. p. 95. c. 244. Malvenda ibid. a De Arcan Cathol Vent c. 24. p. 282. b Lerius p. 230. c Benzâ— p. 77. 111. 167. d Surius in Append ad Naucler p. 775. e P. 222. f Ovied Hist Ind l. 16. c. 11. in Benzo p. 295 g Casa Benzo alij Historici passim h Iidem i Pet. Mart p. 506. Guacca Regio jarima podex k Id. p. 525. l Casa p. 100. m Casa p. 24. n Id. p. 60. o Benzo p. 111. Id. ib. p. 7 8 p Casa p. 12. 22. 29. 54. q Benzo p. 285. r p. 289 c. s c. 89. t Benzo 179. 311. 315. c. Casa p. 19. 11. Id. p. 57. u Tripartit Hist l 2. c. 18. w Catech. 16. p. 263. x Cyropaid passim y De B. Judaica l. 3. c. 57 z Vbi supra 7. p. 501. a Lerius p. 152. alijque Cent. ad Solin p. 218. b Hist l. 7. c. 22. c Lerius alij d p. 405. 406. a Acost l. 1. c. 9 b Gages survey p. 73. c M. Parisad An. 1240 mei p. 732. 756. d In M. S. e Vbi supra f Buxtors Synag Iud. c. 9. mei p. 231 In Grot a Hygin Astron b Bel Drag c Agathias Hist m p. 142. d In Euagr. l. 4. c. 18. e l. 1. 19. Tract P. Cott. g Vbisupra h De C. D. l. 16. c. 7. i Idem k Geograp l. 1. l Apol. c. 39. m Aelian Var. Hist p. 455. n l. 2 c. 89 91. o Chro. Anno 46 p Verstâ—g c. 4. Lamb. Peramb p 18. Chron. 1. pars p. 225. q Ibid. r In 10. de Laet. p. 126. s Ibid. p. 116. t Ibid. p. 25. u Miscellan Sacr. l. 2. c. 4. w Hist l. 7. c. 3â— l. 1. c. 20. a T. 3. Ep. p. 69 b Lerius p. 169. c Ante p. hujus 24. n. d Versteg p. 188. e Hist l. 6. c. 22 f Qu. in Gen. Comest c. 37. g Hist l. 1. h Prolog ad l. 1 i de Consolat ad Helv. c. 7. k Ben. Gor. p l In Voce 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 l Suidas thus computes the four hundred and thirty yeeres of Israels being in Egypt and the land of Canaan From Abrahams going into Charran to Isaacs birth yeers 25 Thence to Iacobs Nativity 60 From him to Levi. 87 From Levi to Caath 45 From Ceath to Amram 63 From Amram to Moses 70 From Moses to their Exodus and going out 80 Summe 430 yeeres a Ler. Hist pre p. 8. f. In Sev. p. 83. T. 2. Ep. p. 75. Lib. 6. Geor. l. 4. b Hier. in loc c Vbi supra d Chrisost in 1 Cor. 2. m. p. 218. e In Io. Tr. 4. a Meth. Hist p. 522. Casas p. 134. c. b Stow ad An. 1501 1502. c Purchas l. 4. c. 13. d Stow. Ibid. e L. 3. p. 360. f Sermon to Virginia Planters An. 1622. p. 20. 26. h Declara of Virginia p. 11 i Mr Cott. ans p. 27 c. k Declara of Virgin Vbi supra l Mr Cot. Ibid. m Metrop 129. n Ibid. o Ib. Mr Cott. p Ibid. q Ser. 16. init a Benzo p. 76. 77. passimque b Id. p. 11. c. c Id. p. 100. 104. 248. c. d Id. ibid. c. e Id. p. 251. f Casas p. 27. 101. 115. g p. 100. 104. h Hist l. 6. c. 1. i Epist before k p. 32. 444. l Presat p. 38. m Id. p. 221. 225 m Id. 230. 248. 301. c. o Cap Smith p. 11. p Book of that Planta Anno 1632. p. 12. q Treatises thereof r Malvenda ubi supra p. 150. s Cap. Smith p. 63. t Barradus T. 2. l. 8. c. 4. u De nat Nov Orb. l. 1. c. 15. w p. 85. 93. c. x Malvenda ubi supra P. 154. y Ho. Sta. p. 194. z Hist l. 1. a Herberts sacr Poems p. 190. b Lerius p. 62. 300. 338. a In loc b Agathias l. 1. c Ad Scap. init d Apolog. 2. p. 300. 450. e Crantz l. 1. c. 7. l. 2. f De Vit. Const l. 2. c. 55. g Hist p. 100. h Tripartit l. 10. c. 5. i Vit. per G. Patriark k Ep. p. 439. l Cap. Smith p. 20. 37. c. m Sozem. l. 2. c. 6. n Hist l. 6. c. 25 o p. 388. p l. 7. c. 30. q Vbi supra p. 16. Lib. 5. Ep. 10. r Benzo p. 256. s Id. p. 390. a In Math. 16. b Casas p. 66. p. 35. p. 34. 99. c p. 11. d Io. de Lact. Descr Amer. pref e Casas p. 22. f p. 118. g Hist l. 4. c. 2. h p. 204. l Ep. before ferm in Jona m In Tertul. p. 103. n Hist l. 6. c. 28 Cas â—â—ud Hist p. 116. Id. ibid. i l. 2. c. 16. k Benzo p. 257. Charter a Clapmar arcan Reip. p. 52. 40 Caroli b Serm. p. 81 82. c. c Rogers pref p. 19. d Pref. Basil Dor. e Parlia spe Anno. 1603. f His workes p. 358. g Res ad Apol. p. 28. h Rogers passim i M. S. a Resp ad Apol. p. 29. b King Iames workes p. 340. c Institut l. 4â— c. 20. d Letter 20 of the 10 moneth 1635. Charter e Calvis Beza Gualt alii f Epit. Cent. 16. p. 185. 285. concil Dordrac g Andr. Posthu p. 176. h â—…p p. 749. i Honor. Reg. Commentar Dautisci 1647. k Idem ibid. Hieron Tit. l Simp. C. p. 42 m Sir H. S. p Panang p. â—92 A discourse of New England not printed Relat. of proceagainst Sa. Gort p. 99. Discourse before mentioned a In Bed Ecclesiast Hist l. 2. c. 1. b Lambard Peramb of Kent p. 5. c Hist l. 1. c. 5. d Malmbs p 1. and Beda l. 1. c. 25. e Daybreakâ— c. f Greg. M. g Dr. Vane lost sheepe p. 186. h Crantz Met. p. 405. 8. 12. Lib. 5. Ep. 58. 59. i Hist l. 2. c 7. a Lerius Hist praef b Benzo p. 390. c Hesiod Op. Di. l. 2. d Theodor. hist l. 5. c. 29. Lib. 9. Ep. 56 57. e Gage survey of America p. 81. f Id. p. 3. a Agathon in Doroth. Doctr. vita patrum b Erasm Ep. 6. c p. 24. d Tit. Ecclesiasticall p. 19. 20 e Tit. Anabaptists p. 1. f Tit. Indians p. 28. 29. g Tit. Scheels p. 47. h Tit. College p. 12. Sermon at Westm in Ann. 1646. Iuly 30. è Iob. 11. 22 m Stat. Eccles Brit. praeface Day breaking if not the Sun-rising of the Gospel with the Indians in New-England Printed for Fulk Clifton on New Pish street hill 1647. page 1. 2 p. 3. Questions of the Indians p. 4. p. 5. p. 6. Questions to them p. 7. Second comming p. 8. p. 9. Questions p. 10. p. 11. p. 12. p. 13. A weeping Indian p. 14. Observations p. 17. Third meeting Novemb. 26. â—… Questions p. 19. p. 20. p. 22. Indian Lawes p. 23. Indian prayers Fourth meeting p. 24. p. 25. The clear sun-shine of the Gospel upon the Indians c. by Mr. Shepheard 1648. p. 3. Orders made by divers Sachims at Concord 1646. p. 5. p. 6. p. 7. Indian womens Questions p. 8. p. 9. p. 10. An Indians dreame p. 11. Indian Questions p. 13. p. 19. p. 20. Indian cases and admonitions of one beating his wife p. 21. Or an unruly son recovered p. 22. p. 23. Prayer p 24. Questions p. 25. Indian cases p. 27. p. 33. p. 34. p. 35. p. 37. The glorious progresse of the Gospel among the Indians c. published by Mr Winslow 1649. An Indian woman living and dying Christianly p. 6. p. 7. p. 8. p. 10. Indian Questions p. 20. Letter to Mr Winslow 18. of the 8. 1649. Day break p. 22. Cleare Sun-shine p. 5. 2 Treatis p. 35 k T. 2. Ep. p. 126. Lib. 4. Ep. 52. l. 5. 10. 152. c. n Crantz Metrop l. 5. c. 18. Elul is the first moneth of the Jewish yeere answering to our August and to some part of September