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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

me seeing thou hast not withheld thy son thy only son from me he had but one dearly beloved son and he offered him to God th●…n God saith I know thou fearest me because thou hast not withheld thy son This was to sacrifice indeed and in truth so we must sacrifice indeed and in truth but God doth not require us to sacrifice our sons but our beloved sins our dearest sins God calleth us this day to part with all our sins though never so beloved and we must not withhold any of them from him if we will not part with all it is not a right sacrifice we must part with those sins we love best and then we offer a good sacrifice Again God smelt a sweet savour in Noahs sacrifice so when we offer such worship to God as is cleane and pure and sacrifice as Abraham did then God accepts our sacrifice Again God manifested his acceptance of Noahs sacrifice by promising to drown the world no more but gave him fruitfull times and seasons God hath chastized us of late with such raines as if he would drown us and he hath drowned and spoiled a great deale of hay and threatens to kill our Cattel and for this we fast and pray this day now if we offer a spirituall sacrifice clean and pure as Noah did then God will smell a savour of rest in us as he did in Noah and then he will withhold the Rain and give us fruitfull seasons These two before mentioned did exercise the fore part of the day besides what we did the four next exercised in the afternoon The first of which was Antony The Scripture w ch he grounded his exercise upon was Matth. 6. 16 17 18. 16. Moreover when ye fast be not as the Hypocrites of a sad Countenance for they disfigure their face that they may appeare unto m●…n to fast Verily I say unto you they have their reward 17. But thou when thou fastest anoint thine head and wash thy face 18. That thou appear not unto men to fast but unto thy father that is in secret and thy Father that seeth in secret shall reward thee openly A little I 'le speak according to that poor little I know THe Doctrine that Christ teacheth us in these words is the Doctrine of fasting and prayer and the duty we doe this day is to practice this Doctrine for God calleth us this day to fasting and prayer There be many causes of prayer to God this day as to prepare our hearts for Church covenant and Ordinances and to pray for the taking away our sicknesse and these great rains here he did enumerate sundry causes of seeking God But why must we fast Answ. That we might the more effectually mourn for sin If any of you bury a child or a friend then you will mourn and fast too for if we offer you meat you will refuse it yea you cannot eat because your heart is so full of sorrow no matter for meat then your tears and sighs and sorrows fill you so that you cannot eat so that fasting is an help to mourning Now this day is a day of mourning and what doe we mourn for not for a child or a friend but a greater matter we must mourn for our sins and we should be so filled and possessed with mourning for our si●…s that we should forget hunger ye so afflicted in our hearts that we cannot eat though it should be offfered to us our hearts should be so full of sorrow that we cannot be an hungry nor eat Againe we fast that we might repent of our sins and amend our lives according to that Matth. 3. 8. bring forth therefore fruits meet for Repentance This is a day of Repentance we must therefore fast this day so as becometh Repentance therefore we must confesse our sins and we must mourn for our sins and we must forsake our sins for these are works meet for Repentance Again we must not be like hypocrites in our fasting for they disfigure their faces and seem to men as if they mourned and fasted and repented but in their hearts they doe not so and therefore God who knoweth what is in the heart and seeth in secret he doth know their hypocrisie and so he knoweth our hypocrisie if we come here and appear to man as if we fasted and yet in our hearts we fast not if we do not mourn and repent for sin we do not fast God doth not account that to be a fast Again such as fast an hypocritical fast they shall be sure to be rewarded and what reward will God give to such as fast like hypocrites I answer that you may see what the wages of hypocrites is Mat. 24 51. shall cut him asunder appoynt him his portion with the hypocrites there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth and this is evill wages and therefore let us be moved to keep a right fast this day by repenting of our sins and amending of our lives and then the Lord will reward us openly if he see that our hearts are right before him The next that followed was Iohn Sp●…ene The Scripture he spake of was Matth. 9. 14 15. 14. Then came to him the disciples of John saying why doe we and the Pharisees fast oft but thy Disciples fast not 15. And Iesus said unto them can the children of the Bride-chamber mourn as long as the Bridegroom is with them but the dayes will come when the Bridegroom shall be taken from them and then they shall fast A little I will say for I can say but little for I am weak and know but little THis is a Parable as when young people are at a wedding there is feasting and joy and mirth but no sorrow nor mourning nor weeping So when Christ is with his people he brings joy and comfort with him and fills their hearts with comfort but if he be angry and depart from his people and leave them to afflictions then there is sorrow and mourning and weeping and fasting as it is this day with us for we are called to fasting this day because of the great raine and great floods and unseasonable weather whereby the Lord spoileth our labours our corne is much spoiled with the wet so that the Lord doth threaten us with want of food also our hay is much spoiled so that God threatneth to starve and kill our Cattel also we have great sicknesse among us so that many are dead the burying place of this Town hath many graves and so it is in all our Towns among the praying Indians Also in our houses are many sick and a great many are crazy and weak and not well God threatneth to kill us and therefore surely he is angry and what maketh him angry we may be sure it is our sins for we are great sinners This day is therefore a day of Repentance of fasting and of mourning And what are we to doe in this day of fasting Answ. We must search out all our

sins and with hearty Repentance forsake them And when we goe about to search out our fins we must remember that there be three places where we must search for sin First in our hearts Secondly in our words 3ly in our works and doings and in all these places we find too many but especially in our hearts for there be evill thoughts and the root sin that is to say Originall sin for so we call it in their language and therefore it is a great work to search our hearts find out the roots of sin and if any doe say it is an hard work and I know not how to doe it I answer it is true it is hard work but therefore we must take so much the more paines and care to doe it as we doe about hard works If any say I cannot tell how to find out my sins I answer we must this day pray unto the Lord to help us to find them out and to forsake them for he knoweth them all Againe another cause of our fasting this day is to prepare us to make a church of Christ among us and if you say what must we doe to prepare for Church-estate I answer we must repent of our sin and make our selves clean we must get cleannesse of heart when we come neer unto God according to that Mat. 3. 2. Repent for the Kingdome of heaven is at hand Againe to prepare us for church estate we must pray unto God to send his Spirit into our hearts because the Spirit of God will convert us and purge our hearts and sanctifie us and teach us to pray and comfort us and will never leave us till he have brought us to the Kingdome of heaven as you know we are taught in our catechisme And it is the gift of God to send his Spirit into our hearts and Christ hath promised to doe it for us as the word of God speaketh Mat. 3. 11. I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance but he that cometh after me is mightier then I whose shooes I am not worthy to bear he shall baptize you with the holy ghost and with fire Where we see that Iohn did baptize them with water but Christ doth baptize them with the holy ghost fire we desire to be baptized by man and man baptizeth with water and that is a sign of Repentance but we must look for the baptisme of Christ he giveth us his Spirit that is his baptizing And when Christ baptizeth with his Spirit that doth more then water can doe for the Spirit doth purge our soules and maketh our hearts pure and clean Again he baptizeth with fire what i●… that I Ans. not outward fire but spirituall and it is a similitude thus what will fire doe I answer you all know what fire will do for when your Tobacco-pipes are filthy foule stinking unfit for your use you cast them into the fire and that doth not burn them up but burneth up all their filth and maketh them clean and sweet fit for your use So our hearts are filthy and unfit for Gods use but cast our hearts into the word for there the Spirit is and then the Spirit of God will burn out all our filth and sin and make us sweet and fit for the Lords use Another that preacht Piumbuhhon The Scripture which he did insist upon was Matth. 5. 1. ad 10. 1. And seeing the multitude he went up into a Mountain and when he was set his Disciples came unto him and he opened his mouth and taught them saying 2. Blessed are the poore in Spirit c. I will speak but a little because I am a poor creature HEre we see that when Christ saw the Multitude come together he taught them in like manner you all being come together this day Christ teacheth you for it is Christ that teacheth us all by his word and these are Christ his words which I speak unto you and therefore heare ye Christ this day for all these words of blessing Christ doth speak this day unto this multitude 1. For poverty of spirit we are the most poor feeble despicable people in the world but let us look in what case our spirits be for if our hearts be answerably poor and low as our outward condition is then we are in the way to be made truly rich for the Kingdome of heaven is promised to such as are poor in spirit 2. For mourning this is a day of mourning and not so much for afflictions as for our sins now if we doe truly and heartily mourn for our sins then the blessing is promised to us and God will find a time and way to comfort us 3. Again They that be meek and patient are blessed therefore those that be froward and passionate and make strife they are not blessed and therefore we have cause to mourn this day for our often passions and fallings out and learn to be meek and patient 4. Again They that hunger and thirst after righteousnesse are blessed This is a day of hunger and thirst and fasting for our bodyes that we might mourn for our sins but it is a day of feasting for our soules and Christ doth here offer a great many blessings for our soules to feast withall if therefore our souls be hungry after righteousnesse and godlinesse then we are blessed 5. Again God is mercifull and commandeth us to be so too and will therefore blesse those that are like unto himselfe 6. They that are pure in heart are blessed and this purity of heart the Spirit of God worketh in us when he cometh and dwelleth in us as we are taught in our Catechisme and therefore Christ doth blesse them 7. Blessed are the peace-makers and who be peace-makers I answer that the Devil is the maker of strife and he is alwayes so doing sometimes in one place sometimes in another and so he is labouring to do in all the Towns of the praying Indians but such as be wise and Godly will not suffer the strife to continue but will use such means as shall reconcile them and make them friends againe and this is a blessed worke so to doe The last that Exercised was Wutasakompavin whom I formerly wrote of by the name Poliquanum The Text he spake of was Matth. 8. 2 3. 2. And loe there came a Leper and worshiped him saying Master if thou wilt thou canst make me clean 3. And Iesus putting forth his hand touched him saying I will be thou clean and immediately his leprosie was cleansed A very little am I able to say and besides it is late for it was very neer night THis day is a day of fasting and prayer for many causes and one is for the many sicknesses and deaths among us and this Text doth shew us the best Physitian in the world and the best way of curing all diseases Christ is the great Physitian he healed many when he was on earth and he healed this Leper This sick man came to

to attend your advice in any particular therein mentioned Many charges will be dayly growing but we hope there will be suffieient in M r Ushers hands to discharge the same till the Spring and for after supply to carry on the work be pleased to take notice that we have drawn upon you three Bills of Exchange of one tenure and date for five hundred pounds to be payd to Mr Iohn Harwood for the use of M r Hezekiah Usher and have taken his Bill to satisfie so much here according to his former agreement with us we pray you to take care it be duely paid at the day without which the worke cannot be comfortably carryed on it is our joynt and unfeigned desires with you that those gifts and contributions may be improved according to the pious minds of the Donors for the promoting the knowledge of God in Jesus Christ amongst these poore Natives and we hope and beleeve there is a reall good effect in severall places which that it may dayly increase to the bringing of many poor souls to heaven is the earnest prayer of GENTLEMEN Your very loving friends and Servants The Commissioners of the united Colonies Iohn Endicott President Simon Bradstreete Thomas Prence Iosiah Winslow Iohn Winthorpe Iohn Talcot Francis Newman William Lerte Boston 22. Sept. 1658. A Letter from M r Iohn Eliot directed unto M r Richard Floyd Treasurer of the corporation for New-England To his much respected and Christian friend M r Floyd Treasurer of the Corporation for promoting Religion among the Indians in New-England these present Christian Friend and Beloved in the Lord. AFter Salutations in the Lord Jesus I shall not trouble you with any thing at present save this one businesse of moment touching the Printing of the Bible in the Indian Language touching which businesse sundry of the Elders did petition unto the Commissioners moving them to further it as a principall means of promoting Religion among them And God so guided without mans contrivance that I was there when it came in They moved this doubt whether the Translation I had made was generally understood to which I answered that upon my knowledge it was understood as farre as Conecticot for there I did read some part of my Translation before many hundred English Witnesses and the Indians manifested that they did understand what I read perfectly in respect of the language they further questioned whether I had expressed the Translation in true language I answered that I feared after times will find many infirmities in it all humane works are subject to infirmity yet those pieces that were printed viz. Genesis and Matthew I had sent to such as I thought had best skill in the language and intreated their an●…adversions but I heard not of any faults they found When the Commissioners ended their meeting they did commit the further consideration of this matter to our Commissioners as I understand of whom our Governour is president Therefore at the coming away of this Ship I repaired to the Governour about it I proposed this expedient for the more easie prosecution of this work viz. that your selves might be moved to hire some honest young man who hath skill to compose and the more skill in other parts of the work the better send him over as your servant pay him there to his content or ingage payment let him serve you here in New-England at the presse in Harvard Colledge and work under the Colledg Printer in impressing the Bible in the Indian language and with him send a convenient stock of Paper to begin withall The Governour was pleased to send for M r Norton to advise in it who came and did heartily further it whereupon the Governour promised to write unto your selves and propose the matter which also I doe and doe earnestly intreat your assistance herein And I beseech the Lord to bow your hearts and incourage you in promoting so good a work so profitable for the furtherance of Religion which to further in the best manner I know is already the bent of your hearts and your constant prayer and indeavour and thus committing you and all your weighty affaires unto the Lord I rest Yours to serve you in the Service of Christ. John Elliot Roxbury this 28 of the 10 th 1658. A Letter from Iohn Endicott Esq President of the Commissioners for the united Colonies in New-England to the Corporation here in ENGLAND For M r Richard Floyd Treasurer and the rest of the Gentlemen of the Corporation for the affaires of New-England these Honourable Gentlemen I Have been moved by divers able and godly men here with us to propound unto your pious consideration whether it be not needful for the better instruction of the Indians amongst us in the true knowledge of God to get the whole Bible of the old and new Testament which is already Translated into the Indian tongue to be printed Many here with us Divines and others judge it a thing that will be acceptable to God and very profitable for the poor Heathens If your selves doe so esteeme of it too it will be necessary to provide paper and letters and such things as may further the work as also a Journey man Printer to be helpefull under M r Greene our Printer to expedite the work This is only propounded to your serious consideration which if God please to put into your hearts to further being so good a work It will rejoyce the hearts of many godly ones here and I doubt not of many there also The rest of the Commissioners being gone home to their own dwellings and none left here at Boston of the Commissioners but my selfe and the Ship being ready to set sayle I have made bold to write these few lines unto you and leave the issue of all to God and your godly wisdomes M r Eliot will be ready at all times to correct the sheets as fast as they are Printed and desireth nothing for his paines I shall not trouble you further at this time but shall desire the Lord so to guide you in all your affaires as God may have the glory of all and your selves comfort and peace So prayeth Your Unworthy Servant Iohn Endicott Boston the 28 of Decem. 1658. Here followes another Letter from M r Iohn Eliot of New-England directed to the Corporation viz. To the Honourable Corporation for spreading the Gospell among the Poor Indians in New England these present Christian Gentlemen and much honoured in the Lord. YOur constant prayers and paines for the promoting of the Kingdome of Christ Jesus in these ends of the earth among these our poor Indians is a work of sweet favour unto the Lord and your labour of love bestowed therein shall be assuredly rewarded when the Lord shall say unto you out of the riches of his free Grace Come ye blessed of my Father c. and what you did unto them you did it unto me and in that day Blessed is the man who hath his hands