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A46842	Of the conversion of five thousand and nine hundred East-Indians, in the isle Formosa, neere China to the profession of the true God, in Jesus Christ : by meanes of M. Ro, Junius, a minister lately in Delph in Holland / related by ... M. C. Sibellius ... in a Latine letter ; translated ... by H. Jessei ... ; with a post-script of the Gospels good sucesse also amongst the VVest-Indians, in New England.	Sibelius, Caspar, 1590-1658.; Jessey, Henry, 1603-1663.; Shepard, Thomas, 1605-1649. Clear sunshine.; Wilson, John, 1588-1667. Day-breaking.; Winslow, Edward, 1595-1655. Glorious progress of the Gospel.	1650 (1650)	Wing J697; ESTC R14902	23,858	49

I durst freely joyne into Church-fellowship with many of them Yours I. ELIOT Roxbury this 12. of Nov. 1648. The summe of another Letter of Mr. Eliot to a Gentleman of NEW-ENGLAND residing here at presient SIR YOur care about the good of these poore Indians for their Apparell For imployment of them in Planting they wanting Apparell and Tooles are willing to follow my advice in any reasonable thing For their Schooling a Gentleman in London whose Name I could never learne gave x. li. towards it the last yeare Paid by Capt. Harding Lin Indians are all naught for such is their Sachim Yours I. ELIOT Part of another Letter from him writ the xii Month of the last yeare 1648. current 1649. Sundry of them viz. of these Indians enquire after Baptisme and Church Ordinances and the Way of Worshipping God as the Churches here do I take this to be one speciall and eminent smile of God upon the Worke that he hath stirred up The Parliament of England taking it into Consideration to thinke on some meet way how they might aduance it ¶ I have noted some more of the Questions by the Indians for by them you may guesse at their PROGRESSE Questions by Indians Why have not Beasts a Soule as Man hath seeing they have Love Anger c. as Man hath How is the Spirit of God in us Why doth God punish in Hell for ever Man will let out of Prison What is Faith Do you thinke I have Faith How shall I know when God accepts my Prayer How makes Christ Peace between God and man In Wicked Dreames doth the Soule sin If my heart be full of ill thoughts and I repent pray and yet its full againe and againe What will God say What meaneth this God will not hold him guiltlesse that taketh his Name in vaine If a man will force his Daughter to marrie one that she doth not love what will God say c. Sir I am Yours in any service I can in Jesus Christ. I. Eliot Roxbury this second of the 12 Moneth 1648. 1649. current The rest of the Letter and of other Letters and more of the Indian Questions the Reader may see with many more remarkable Passages and profitable Observations and Applications with conjectures made in an APPENDIX thereunto in a Booke Published by Mr. E. Winslow called The GLORIOUS PROGRESSE of the Gospell amongst the Indians in New-England To which Book with the two former Bookes of the same Subiect viz. The DAY-DREAKE of the Gospell with the Indians sold by Mr. Clifton on Fishstreet-hill and the CLEARE SVN-SHINE sold neere the Exchange by Mr. Bellamie The Godly Reader to whom these Glorious and Honourable Workes of God are most precious is referred for his further satisfaction ¶ The Parliament of England for the advancing of this good Worke made an ACT called An ACT for promoting and propagating of the Gospell of JESUS CHRIST in NEW-ENGLAND 27. Iulie 1649. Ordered by them to be Printed Sold by Mr. Husbands A Breviate whereof followeth WHereas the Commons of England assembled in Parliament have received certain Intelligonce from divers godly Ministers and others in New-England that divers of the Heathen-Natives through the pious care of some godly English who preach the Gospell to them in their owne Indian-Language not onely of Barbarous are become Civill but many of them forsake their accustomed Charms and Sorcerses and other Satanicall Delusions doe now call upon the Name of the Lord and give great Testimonie of the power of God drawing them from Death and Darknes to the Life and Light of the Glorious Gospell Jesus Christ. Which appeareth by their lamenting with teares their mispent Lives teaching their Children what they are instructed themselves being carefull to place them in godly Famalies and English Schooles betaking themselves to one Wife putting a way the rest and by their constant Prayers to Almightie God morning and evening in their Families expressed in all appearance with much Devotion and zeale of heart All which considered we cannot but in behalfe of the Nation we represent rejoyce and give Glory to God for the beginning of so glorious a Propagation of the Gospell amongst those poore Heathen Which cannot be prosecuted with that expedition as is desired unlesse fit Instruments be encouraged and maintained to pursue it Schooles Cloathing be provided and many other Necessaries Be it therefore Enacted by this present Parliament that for the furthering so good a Worke there shall be a Corporation in England consisting of sixtéene viz. a President Treasurer and fourtéene Assistants And that William Steel Esq Harbert Pelham Esq James Sher'ey Abraham Babington Robert Houghton Richard Hutchinson George Dun Robert Tomson William Mullins John Hodgson Edward Parks Edward Clud Richard Lloyd Tho Aires John Stone and Edward Winslow Citizens of London be the first sixtéene Persons out of whom the said sixtéene Persons or the greater number of them shall chuse one of the said sixiéene to be President another to be Treasurer They or any nine of them to appoint a Common Seal And be it Enacted That a generall Collection be made for the purposes beforesaid through all England and Wales And that the Ministers read this Act and exhort the people to a chearfull Contribution to so pious a Worke. Hen Scobell Clerie Parliamenti Blessed be Iehovah the God of Heaven who hath stirreh up such a thing as this in the heart of Parliament of England to promote the Gospell amongst those West-Indians in New-England and into the hearts of the Ministers of severall Colleges in Cambridge and of the Delegates of the Universitie of Oxford to provoke the Ministers of England and Wales to stir up their Congregations to a liberall Contribution of pecuniarie helps towards the promotion of so glorious undertaking As by their Letters may more fully appear Dated at Cambridge Octob. 24. 1649. Subscribed Ant. Tuckney Procanc T. Hill Io. Arrowsmith Benj. Whitchcock S. Bolton W. Spurston La. Seaman Rich. Love Rich. Minshall W. Del Rich. Vines Oxford dated Octob. 22. 1649. Signed in the Name and by the Authoritie of the Delagates Ed Reynolds Vice Canc. OXON I wish those pithy savoury Letters may be read for the more affecting the Hearts of all Godly people that they may not sow sparingly but liberally as hoping for a Harvest and reaping plentifully Thus you have heard the joyfull Relation of the Conversion of many Indians both in the East and in the West and evident Confirmations of both And now is this nothing to you all ye that read or heare of those things Is there no Application hereof that we should make for our owne further profit and Edification Surely as every Word of God is for our good All Scripture being by inspiration of God is profitable So also are all the Workes of God Especially such Glorious Workes of God

Write and that instructed as well the elder as younger persons in the Rudiments of Christian Faith And it is not easie to judge whether the Schollers for their dociblenesse and obedience or their Masters or Teachers for their paines and diligence were more to be commended M Iunius in the meane time collected the chiefe Heads of Religion and some for dayly Prayers and translated certaine Psalmes into the Formosan Islanders Language Also his care and paines was not onely in behalfe of those Six Northerne Townes there beforesaid but for the Southerne parts thereof also where in three and twentie Townes he planted Churches and furthered the Worship of the true God And the Lord vouchsafed such abundant Blessings upon his Labours and Endeavours amongst them whom he both planted and watered feeding them with sound Doctrine good Example and Love unfained not counting his Life too deare to venture in this Worke for their gaining and building up that he hath left such a Report and Memoriall behind him at his Departure as will be precious and blessed so long as this World endureth III. Of his REGRESSE AND now lastly touching his Regresse or Departure from thence The Occasions and Causes were these The Churches there being so happily planted and watered and they having divers Pastors Teachers and Overseers set over them his owne body was growne very weake and more unserivceable by Diseases that were renewed with which he was long and painfully afflicted First He was moved with a great desire of seeing his aged and most deare Mother before her or his Death whom hee had left in the Netherlands And secondly of seeing againe his owne deare Countrie that by the joyfull Tydings of the Lords Blessing his paines among those Heathenish Indians hee might refresh the hearts of the Churches Ministers Brethren and Friends And thirdly that he might the more promote and further by meanes of those here that had the chiefe managing and governing of those Indian Affaires the proceeding on for the Conversion of the Lords Vineyard that is alreadie Planted and Watered in the Formosan Iland and for further helpe in propagation of the Gospell amongst them Hee having declared to the Ilanders there these and the like Grounds for his returne they being put into so good a posture for their good proceeding on in their Churches Schollers and every way not without being greatly desired by them at last they yeelded to dismisse him This so joyfull a Narration of the Conversion of so many of the East-Indians in the Iland Formosa is recorded and published in Latine by Master Caspar Sibellius Pastor of the Church in Daventrie in the Netherlands Being writ by him there Iuly 25. 1646. himself being dearly beloved of and acquainted with this blessed Instrument Mr. ROBERT IVNIVS and is perfixed to his Booke called Antidotum Ambitionis beforesaid Printed at the Charge of I. Iansonius Amsterd Who so desireth and such as would see more about this Historie and the certaintie thereof they may search and see these Letters Acts and publicke Testimonies extant which confirme the same out of which Mr. Sibellius gathered much of the Relation before said viz. The Acts of the Synod of the Northren parts of Holland held at Harlem Anno 1645. the twentieth Article The Acts of the Visitation of the Churches and Schollers of the Northern Formosan Ilanders which Three Faithfull Pastors of those East-Indian Churches accompanying the Elder of Tayovan two of the States Senators being present ordered and performed in the yeare 1643. in the Moneths of September and October Also Letters from the Eldership in Tayovan and from otbers to the Classes in Amsterdam and in Walachria written specially about this busines● To which may bee added the excellent and most ample Testimonall wherewith the Ecclesiasticall Assembly at Soulang the Eight of October 1643 dismissed the said Mr. ROBERT IVNIVS All these were seen and read and examined diligently by me so affirmeth C. SIBELLIVS And upon my desire and request to have the clearest Evidence herein with the particulars thereof most fully the Relation beforesaid writ by Mr. Junius 's familiar friend was sent by Mr. Junius himselfe to Mr. Cresset as is before mentioned for me H. I. Later News of Formosan-Indians BEfore the Eight Month October 1649. the Relator hereof H. I. had entreated of the said Mr. Cresset that he would write againe to Delph to be informed of the further proceeds about those Indians in the Isle FORMOSA Who having written thither accordingly to M. E. H. his friend in Delph he received back this Account following SIR I Have conversed with Mr. Junius about your desire how it goes with the Formosan Indians And he certifies me that as he was there alone so now there are there foure Ministers alreadie Blessed bee God for it to the great encrease of his Church and People for his superabundant Glorie and our great Rejoycing and Comfort For the Conversion of the Heathen is according to his Promise in his sacred Word The Companie have concluded and agreed to send three Ministers more whom they with Mr. Junius thinke most fit to performe that great Worke. And Mr. Junius doth instruct them that are to goe in the Language that they may with Gods mercie bee the better enabled to performe that great Worke which they are sent for c. Your loving friend E. H. Delph 25. of Octob. 1649. THE POST-SCRIPT I. GOOD NEWES of the DAY-BREAKING II. Of the CLEARE SUN-SHINE III. Of the Glorious PROGRESSE of the Gospel breaking forth upon many WEST-INDIANS in NEW-ENGLAND PRecious is that Promise in Isaiah 59.19 From the WEST they shall feare the Name of IEHOVAH and from the Rising of the Sun his Glory Some First-fruits from the East we have heard alreadie from the West here follows a Briefe Of the Harvest from them both we much long to heare and earnestly pray for it to the Lord of the Harvest In the yeare 1630. before the Birth of Christ according to H. Broughtons Concent to enjoy temporall food Israel with 70 Souls went downe into Egypt And in the Yeare 1630 from the Birth of Christ To enjoy Spirituall Food the Liberties of the Gospell a great number of our English Brethren were forced hence to New-England by the Contrivers and Promoters of Destructive Designes for Introduction of great Evills both in Church and State The Adversaries end was to suppresso but Gods to proprogate the Gospell A long time it was about twice seven yeares before God let them see any further ●nd then to preserve their Consciences and provide for their sustenance But when Providence invited their returne he let them know it was for some further Errand that he brought them thither giving them some Bunches of Grapes some Clusters of Figs in earnest of the prosperous successe of their endeavours upon those poore Out-casts those WEST-INDIAN-Natives Whose Language Mr. I. ELIOT of Roxburie who had lived in

as these are which his very Enemies may be enforced to confesse that Digitus Dei hîc This is the Finger of God the Lords mightie Worke indeed If then your eyes be not closed from seeing and if you have eares to heare These wonderfull Workes may be profitable for your 1 Instruction 2 Reproofe or Conviction 3 Correction or Reformation and for leading you on in Righteousnesse unto Persection The first Vse This may instruct us that the Lord is exceeding mercifull gracious and compassionate indeed as the Father of the Prodigal before Confession made runs to him having bowels of mercy falls on his neck and kisseth him So here as he saith I am found of them that asked not after me These Indians not first asking for the Gospell by meanes of our English and of the Dutch Plantations which hereby he greatly favoureth the LORD sends and offers the Gospell and Grace to them Then certainly every one that seeketh after enjoyment of Gods Love in Christ and followeth on shall surely find Mat. 7.8 H●s 6.3 There is no cause for such to dispaire though you have been as base or baser then the Prodigal or Iews or Heathen Such may see some sweet encouragements and Directions in a Book called A store house of Cases of Conscience Pag. 25.29 to 39. Newly Published The second Vse This Relation may be for Reproofe and Conviction of Multitudes both English Dutch who have long enjoyed the Gospell and have not so prized it nor brought forth such fruit as these Indians that have enjoyed it but a short time O Read this over againe and Try your selves whether ye be indeed effectually beleevers or but Temporary beleevers O be ye convinced and the Lord convince you How sad for thee is it if Publicans and Harlots if Witches and Worshippers of Devills as many Indians were shall enter into the Kingdome of God and ye shall see it and be shut out Except ye Repent The third Vse For Reformation Remember how far thou art fallen from such Zeale Love Desire and other good Affections that were once in thee and Repent and seeke a sure Foundation for thy Building and consider what it will cost thee if thou beginnest not in time or if thou beginnest without a sure Foundation Least the Kingdome of God be suddenly taken from thee and thy Sunset at noone Consider the Lord saith Returne O backsliders I will heale you for I am mercifull and gracious I delight not in the death of a sinner Why will ye die How often would I have gathered you Say Take away all iniquitie and receive us graciously Behold to thee doe we returne Do thus especially before and after Sermon wait on the most lively affecting meanes And the Lord give thee a waiting Spirit remembring him in his wayes After Sermons get a part and ponder it seriously O quench not the spirit The fourth and last Vse Remember often that when thou hast done all thou canst that that art an unprofitable servant Yea that all thy Prayers and hearing and other good deeds are so stained with the evill of thy uncleane heart that all thy righteousnesses are but as a menstruous bloody clout And that thou are quite undone in all thy duties if there be not the incense of Iesus Christ. And that God against whom thou hast rebelled and fought hath so loved the world that sent his son not to condemne but to save all that come to him and beleeve in him that will receive him for their Saviour Teacher and King and that none of these shall perish And though thou art never so poore and reproached and persecuted yet if it be for Christs sake thou shalt receive a hundred fold at the Regeneration of the World when thou shalt Reigne with him a thousand yeares and thou shalt have everlasting life Here it is best to leave thee PSAL. 107.8.15.21 O that men would praise the Lord for his Goodnesse and for his wonderfull Workes Part of another Letter writ by Mr. ELIOT to Mr. HUHG PETERS SIR I Have a Request to you in the behalfe of these poore Indians We are about to make a Towne and bring them to a Cohabitation and Civilitie For the accomplishment whereof we want a Magazine of all sorts of Edge-tooles and Instruments fit for Husbandrie for Cloathing c. As Mr. Pelham and Mr. Winslow can informe you and I thinke the best way to be supplyed is to gather a Collection of the things themselves which any man can better spare out of his Shop then halfe so much money to buy them So shall I and all these poore Indians rest engaged to pray to the God of Heaven c. Your loving Brother and Fellow Labourer in the Lords Worke I. ELIOT Roxbury Octob. 12. 1649. FINIS ERRATA He that hath suffered by his owne Errata is desired that with his Pen he will correct these viz. in Title Pag. read Iunij Annot. Pag. 2. end put out Secundo Pag. 5 end read both men Pag. 15. line 5. read We found Pag 25. line 7. read Mr. Mahew Pag. 26. line 20. read seeke unto it ☞ ☜ 1 Quod ad Ingressum c. Per Pium inclytae Belgarum foederatorū ad infidos Orientalis Expeditionis Senatū convertendis * A rare Patern for Pious States Ministers Act. 26.18 A Note of a true Minister that indeed sheweth love to Christ Ioh. 21.15 16. † Integro biennio quod excurrit Indians preached unto in their owne Language Twelve yeares Progressum in Vocatione * Nam ut de Dorko Tirose dicer● supersedeam in sex seprent Insulae Formosae celebr c. The good successe of Preaching ‖ Expulsis nefauda Idelolatria brutâ ignorantiâ horribili coecitate foeaissimo Daemoniorum cultu c. * Summi medioxumi atque infini They may shame us They pray Morne and Even and at Meales fervently in conceived Prayer The unclean Spirit forced out attempts returning urgeth to keepe their old accustomed way as those in Ier. 44.16 17. ☜ Mat. 28.18 19. * Vt ex Formosanis Adultis QUINQUIES MILLE NONGENTI utriusque sexus Nomina sua Christo dederunt Et fidie suae professionem c. ‖ Cum quibus infantes ex Formosanis foederatis ●●ti atquè sacrâ aquâ tinct● non annumerantur V. M.IX.C First taught and beleeve then Baptized and enjoy the Lords Supper M. Iunius promoted Reading Writing and many to be Schoolemasters † Praeter paucos Praeceptores Belgas in supradictis sex pagis Indigenae Quinquaginta a Te Christo Lucrifacti atque instituti scientiâ industriâ dexteritate sedulitate ac pietate insignes sub discessum tuum Sexcentos Discipulos legere literas pingere docebant tàm adultos quàm pueros rudimētis Christianae fidei imbuebant * Six Hundred taught