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A30858	The Banners of grace and love displayed in the farther conversion of the Indians in New-England held forth in sundry letters from divers ministers to the corporation established by Parliament, for promoting the Gospel amongst the heathen in New-England : and farther attested by Edm. Callamy, Simon Ashe, VVill Spurstow, Lazarus Seaman, George Griffith, [brace] [brace] Phil Nye, VVilliam Bridge, Henry VVhitfield, Joseph Carryll, Ralph Venning.		1657 (1657)	Wing B674; ESTC R38715	37,188	57

mercy it pleased God to try them in the time of the Pox for some of them did hazard their owne lives for to them it is very mortall in obedience to the Command of the Lord to shew mercy to them that were sicke and some were infected thereby and fell sicke and lay with much chearefullnesse and patience under Gods hand and through the Lords mercy are well againe others who did shew mercy in that case escaped the sicknesse to the praise of God Likewise God is pleased to try their Charitie by an old Paraliticke or Palsie sicke-man whose owne Children being prophane and tyred with the burthen of him his retentive power of houlding excrements being loosened and having a loosenesse sometimes he is very noysome and burthensome they forsooke him and he had perished but that the Lord stirred up by the word of his grace their hearts to shew mercy to him for he was while he was sicke at six shilling a weeke charge for wee offered twelve-pence a night to any to tend him and for meere hyre none would abide it but out of mercy and Charity some of the Families did take care of him and gave freely some weeks and others were paid out of their publique money namely such as hath been taken off such as have been Transgressors by Fine or Mulct and still he is at foure shillings a weeke charge being better in health in so much that all their publique money is spent and much more and wee have Collections among them for the same use The old man who hath been and still is wise doth wisely testifie that their love is sincere and that they truely pray to God and I hope so doth he and shall be saved I could with a word speaking in our Churches have this poore man relieved but I doe not because I thinke the Lord hath done it for the tryall of their grace and exercise of their love and to traine them up in works of Charitie and in the way of Christ to make Collections for the poore I see how the Lord provideth to further the progresse of the Gospel by these tryalls and afflictions yea there be more passages of this winters worke wherein the Lord hath taught us by the Crosse For one of our first and principall men is dead which though it be a great blow and damping to our worke in some Respects yet the Lord hath not left the rest to discouragement thereby nay the worke is greatly furthered for he made so gracious an end of his life and imbraced death with such holy submission to the Lord and was so little terrified at it as that it hath greatly strengthened the Faith of the living to be constant and not to feare death greatly commending of the death of Wamporas for that was his name I thinke he did more good by his death then he could have done by his life one of his sayings was That God giveth us three mercies in this world the first is health and strength the second is food and cloaths the third is sicknesse and death and when wee have had our share in the two first why should wee not be willing to take our part in the third for his part he was I heard him speake thus and at other times also and at his last he so spake and it so tooke with them that I observe it in their prayers that they so reckon up Gods dispensations to them his last words which he spake in this world were these Jehova Aninnumah Jesus Christ that is Oh Lord give mee Jesus Christ and when he could speake no more he continued to lift up his hands to Heaven according as his strength lasted unto his last breath so that they say of him he dyed praying when I visited him the last time that I saw him in this world not doubting but I shall see him againe with Christ in Glory one of his sayings was this Foure yeares and a Quarter since I came to your house and brought some of our Children to dwell with the English now I dye I strongly intreate you for that is their phrase that you would strongly intreate Elder Heath with whom his Sonne liveth and the rest which have our Children that they may be taught to know God so as that they may teach their Countrymen because such an example would doe great good among them his heart was much upon our intended worke to gather a Church among them I told him I greatly desired that he might live if it were Gods will to be one in that worke but if he should now dye he should goe to a better Church where Abraham and Isaack and Jacob and Moses and all the dead Saints were vvith Jesus Christ in the presence of God in all happinesse and Glory he said he feared not death he was vvilling to dye and turning to the Company vvhich vvere present he spake unto them thus I now shall dye but Jesus Christ calleth you that live to goe to Naticke that there the Lord might rule over you that you might make a Church and have the Ordinance of God among you believe in his Word and doe as hee commandeth you With many such vvords exhorting them vvhich they could not heare vvithout vveeping A little before his death he spake many gracious vvords unto them vvherein one passage vvas this Some delight to heare and speake idle and foolish words but I desire to heare and speake onely the words of God exhorting them so to doe likewise his gracious vvords vvere acceptable and affecting that vvhereas they used to fly and avoyd vvith terrour such as lye dying novv on the contrary they flocked together to heare his dying vvords whose death and buriall they beheld vvith many teares nor am I able to vvrite his Storie without vveeping Another affliction and damping to our vvorke vvas this that it hath pleased God to take avvay that Indian vvho vvas most active in Carpentrey and who had framed mee an house with a little direction of some English whom I sometime procured to goe with mee to guide him and to set out his worke hee dyed of the Pox this winter so that our house lyeth not yet raised vvhich maketh my aboade amongst them more difficult and my tarriance shorter then else I vvould but the Lord helpeth mee to remember that he hath said Endure thou hardnesse as a good Souldier of Jesus Christ These are some of the gracious tryalls and Corrections the Lord hath exercised us withall yet he hath mingled them with much love and favour in other respects for it hath pleased God this winter much to inlarge the abilitie of him whose helpe I use in translating the Scriptures which I account a great furtherance of that which I most desire namely to communicate unto them as much of the Scriptures in their owne language as I am able Besides it hath pleased God to stirre up the hearts of many of them this winter to learne to reade and write wherein they

holy endevours Shall wee not labour to strengthen their hands by ministering to them of our aboundance that they may not be discouraged in so eminent a service one of the greatest workes that hath been upon the wheele in this latter age for to Contribute to the offering up of Soules to Christ must needs be a Sacrifice of a very sweet smelling savour unto God This wee humbly offer unto all those that love the Lord Jesus in sinceritie and remaine Thine in the furtherance of the Gospel W. Gouge Edm Calamy Simon Ashe Wil Spurstowe Jer Whitaker Lazarus Seaman George Griffith Phillip Nye William Bridge Henry Whitfeld Sidrach Simpson William Strong Joseph Caryl Ralph Venning To the Christian Reader CHRISTIAN READER AS ever worke of God tending to the rescuing of deluded Soules out of the snares of the Devill so even this Glorious worke of Gods grace hath met with many discouragements by various kinds of objections cast abroad by divers sorts of people and even by some that come from New-England it selfe who having lived remote from the worke done and either not affecting the instruments therein imployed or not going to the places of their Exercise that they might see and heare the gracious operations of the Spirit of God amongst them may easily misreport the proceedings of Gods goodnesse therein Yet neverthelesse God having called us to be exercised in a worke of this Nature wherein his Glory and the Salvation of so many of the lost sonnes of Adam are concerned wee have taken up a Resolution by his gracious Assistance to improve the power and trust by Authoritie of Parliament committed to us to the utmost least it be laid to our Account amongst others the obstructors of it in the great day of the Lord. But as wee meete with discouragements so through mercy wee are not without incouragements of many sorts Viz. 1. This worke of Gods grace growes in New England not onely in the places where the Gospel was formerly preached to the Indians But God hath stirred up two Eminent Ministers in two other parts of the Countrey to labour in the worke not without successe answerable as Mr William Leveridge neere Sandwich in the Government of New Plymouth sixtie miles from the place where Mr Eliot teacheth and Mr Richard Blindman at Pecoat a place formerly subdued by the English and is a place about the same distance from Sandwich another way an account whereof you will have in the following Treatise 2 Where the Act of Parliament for the Collection meets with Gospel-spirited Ministers and people there wee finde a good account of it comparatively God having stirr'd up the hearts of some Eminent Christians to contribute in a considerable manner Some by charging their Lands with a yearely Revenue to the Corporation for that end for ever and others by sending in good summes of money subscribing to pay yearely so much whilst they live And one Gentleman leaving two sonnes of tender age having appointed by his will in case they dye without issue that an estate of two hundred pound per annum should be setled upon the Corporation for ever and the rest of his estate for the like uses in the foure Northerne Counties of England 3. That God hath wrought a resolution in us of the Corporation wherein wee trust hee will inable us to persist viz. to contribute our labour and paines freely to this worke without the least diminution of the Stocke And if any desire to be satisfied what our receipts disbursements or manner of proceedings are our Bookes are open at Coopers Hall London betweene the houres of Tenne and Twelve every Saturday where they may without offence see what is given and by whom when brought in and how imployed or improved 'T is very strange to see what a multitude of objections are darted against this pure piece of Christianitie yea by some whom otherwise wee have charitable thoughts of and how exceedingly the worke is impeded thereby and however through mercy wee are able to answer every one of them sufficiently yet wee forbeare to particularize them least wee should reflect too much on some our Consciences telling us that as the worke is of God and really such as is held forth so he onely can satisfie the spirits of Men and will doe it in due season and in the meane time blesse his owne worke being able to carry it on who delighteth oft-times in small meanes that his gracious operations may the more be seene This is the fifth Treatise hath been published to the world in this kinde but the first by the Corporation every one of them exceeding each other wherein a most apparant growth and progresse doth appeare amongst the poore Natives That wee have now to offer to the publique view is a farther account of that living growing spreading power of Godlines amongst them And first wee shall begin with some remarkeable passages of divine providence in a Letter received from Mr John Eliot who was the first Minister the Lord stirred up to promote this worke bearing date the 28th of February 1651. to one of our selves Much Honored and Beloved in CHRIST THe Providence of God giving this unexpected opportunity of sending I thought it my duty not to omit it that so the Saints and people of God with you especially your selfe with the rest of the Worshipfull Corporation might understand the progresse and present state of this worke of the Lord among the Indians for wee meete with changes of providence and tryalls in this our day of small things It hath pleased the Lord to try them so soone as they have but tasted of his holy wayes For our natures cannot live without Physicke nor grace without affliction more or lesse sooner or later The winter before this last past it pleased God to worke wonderfully for the Indians who call upon God in preserving them from the Pox when their prophane Neighbours were cut off by it This winter it hath pleased God to make lesse difference for some of ours were also visited with that disease yet this the Lord hath done for them that fewer of them have dyed thereof then of others who call not upon the Lord. Onely three dyed of it but five more young and old of other diseases Now through the Lords mercy they are well though not without ordinary infirmities which befall Mankinde In matters of Religion they goe on nor onely in attendance on such meanes as they have not onely in knowledge which beginneth to have some clearenesse in the Fundamentall poynts of Salvation but also in the practice and power of Grace both in constant care in attendance on the worship of God on Sabboth dayes and Lecture dayes especially profitting in the gift of prayer and also in the exercise of love to such as be in affliction either by sicknesse or povertie I have seene lively Actings of Charitie out of Reverence to the Command of the Lord when such as had not that principle were farre from such works of