Moses to his Israell Onely take heed to your selves and keepe your soules diligently Deut. 4. 9. make your calling and election sure 2 Pet. 1. 10. and because you are the children of faithfull Abraham command your children and families that they walke in the waies of the Lord Gen. 18. 9. and let who will serve themselves follow lying vanities and set up their owne lusts let every one of us say and do as Ioshua I and my house will serve the Lord Josh 24. 15. And not onely serve the Lord with and in our housholds but in furthering the common good of others and t is considerable God is pleased to owne publique interests though in civill things with the name of his owne inheritance But this is the sinne this is the misery of these times All seek their owne not the things of Iesus Christ Even regulated charity may beginne at home it may not it must not end there it is the onely grace that is sowne on earth it growes up to heaven and continues there it goes with us thither and there abides to all eternity and t is therefore 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 greater then faith and hope not from continuance onely but its extensivenesse it delights to be communicative it reacheth an hand of helpe one way or other to every one that needs though at never so great a distance after the cloven tongues as of fire had warmed the affections of the holy Apostles they had so much love to soules that they forgat their fathers house discipled all Nations and preached the Gospel to every creature Their line went through all the earth and their words to the ends of the world that former known world the same spirit hath warmed the hearts of our Countreymen and they are busie at the same worke in the other the new-found world For behold a white horse and he that sate on him had a bow and a Crown was given unto him and hee went forth conquering and to conquer so the Lord Christ shall be light to that world also and Gods salvation to the ends of the earth Britain hath woon the Gospel-glory from all other Countries not onely imbracing it with the formost as old Gildas testifieth but it was the first of all the Provinces that established Christianity by a law saith Sabellicus our Lucius was the first Christian King that Annales make mention of and venerable Bede out of Eutropius declareth that Constantine the first Christian Emperour was created to that dignity in this Island Sozom. l. 9. c. 11. saith that so were Marcus Gratian also But Constantine brought further honour to the Nation Religion For the Saxon Bede and Ponticus Virunnius affirme expresly that Constantine was born in Britaine after this ingemuit orbis videns se totum Romanum All the world wondred after the Beast groaned under the Papall servitude and our K. Henry the eight was the first of all the Princes who brake that yoke of Antichrist but neerer yet to our purpose The Inhabitants of the first England so Verstegan calls that part of Germany whence our Ancestors came hither with the Saxons and Iutes derive their Christianity from Iewry Ad nos doctrina de terra Iudaeorum per sanctos Apostolos qui docebant gentes pervenit as that great linguist learned and laborious Mr Wheelocke hath observed and translated out of the old Saxon Homilies t is but just therefore lege talionis that we repay what we borrowed and endeavour their conversion who first acquainted us with the eternall Gospell and if it be probable that providence honoured this Nation with the prime discovery of that New World as is intimated hereafter it is true without all controversie that from this second England God hath so disposed the hearts of many in the third New England that they have done more in these last few yeares towards their conversion then hath been effected by all other Nations and people that have planted there since they were first known to the habitable world as if that Prophesie were now in its fulfilling Behold I will doe a new thing now it shall spring forth shall ye not know it I will even make a way in the Wildernes and rivers in the desart c. When our Ancestors lay also in darkenesse and the shadow of death Gregory wrote divers Epistles to severall Noblemen and Bishops yea and to some Kings and Queenes of France and England these Sir H. Spelman that famous Antiquary your noble Countreyman and of alliance to divers of you calls epistolas Britannicas which are also mentioned afterwards in these he gives God thankes for their forwardnesse to further the worke of grace and desires earnestly the continuance of their bountifull and exemplary encouragement of such as were zealously employed in that Soule-worke and that is one of the two businesses entended in the following discourse which begs your assistance in your Spheres and cordiall concurrence to promote a designe of so much glory to the Lord of glory This is no new notion or motion all the royall Charters required the Gospellizing of the Natives and in the beginning of this Parliament there was an Ordinance of Lords and Commons appointing a Committee of both and their worke was among other things to advance the true Protestant Religion in America and to spread the Gospell among the Natives there and since very lately there is an Act for the promoting and propagating the Gospell of Iesus Christ in New-England I wish prosperity to all the Plantations but those of New-England deserve from hence more then ordinary favour because as by an Edict at Winchester about eighth hundred yeeres since King Ecbert commanded this Country should be called Angles-land so these your Countreymen of their owne accord and alone were and are ambitious to retain the name of their owne Nation besides this England had once an Heptarchate and then your Countrey was the chiefe of that Kingdome called Anglia Orientalis and these are the neerest of all the seven to you in name Nov-angles East-angles I pray that you would be nearest and most helpefull to them in this most Christian and Gospel-like designe which I leave with you and two or three Petitions at the throne of grace for you one is that of Moses Yee shall not doe after all the things that wee do heare this day every man whatsoever is right in his owne eyes but that ye walk by rule and not by example this is an age much enclining to Enthousiasmes and Revelations men pretend to externall and inward impulses but wee must remember though wee had a voice from heaven yet having the Scriptures wee have 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a more sure Propheticall word whereunto yee doe well that yee take heed as unto a light that shineth in a darke place untill the day dawne and the day starre arise in your hearts
here is a comparison even with an heavenly voice which must vaile and submit to the written word because poore mankind may easily be deluded by him who among his many other wiles and depths can transform himself into an Angel of light Againe my prayer for you is that in the wofull concussions and commotions of these daies your selves may stand firme and unmoveable You have seene the waters troubled and the Mountaines shaken with the swelling thereof Oh that you may say in and with holy Davids sense though an host should encampe against me my heart shall not feare though warre should rise up against me in this will I be confident this and what is it but ver 1. The Lord is my light and my salvation whom shall I feare the Lord is the strength of my life of whom shall I be afraid even heathens have said much and done much towards that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 magnanimity and patience but Christians have an higher prospect they looke above the terrors of men and they doe not feare their feare for as Stephen through a showre of stones they can see the heavens open and the Sonne of man sitting at the right hand of God nihil crus sentit in nervo si animus sit in caelo they are not so much affected with what they feele as with that they believe because we walk by faith and not by sight And oh that these strange mutations may perswade us all all the daies of our appointed time to waite untill our change come even that change which never never can again be changed these are the last times and yet a little while yea 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 yet a little little while and hee that shall come will come and will not tarry his fan is in his hand and he will throughly purge his floore and gather the wheate into the garner but will burne up the chaffe with unquenchable fire The ungodly shall not stand in the judgement for all faces shall then be unmasked and every vizard shall be plucked off The Lord will then bring to light the hidden things of darknesse and will make manifest the counsels of the heart and then every one that hath done well shall have praise of God The Lord God of our mercies fit you for his appointment stablish you in every good word and worke and keepe you from evill that you may give up your account with joy and not with griefe and now I commend you all and all that love that appearing of our Lord unto the word of his grace which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all them that are sanctified such is the serious and unfaigned devotion for you of him who willingly subscribes himselfe Your most humble servant in our dearest Lord THO THOROWGOOD JEWES IN AMERICA OR Probabilities that the Americans be Jewes From Part. 1. Six severall conjectures Generall Introduction Chap. 1. 1. Conjecture Their own acknowledgement Ch. 2. 2. Rites and customes in both alike Common ceremonies such Chap. 3. and solemn Ch. 4. 3. Their words and manner of speech as the Iewes Chap. 5. 4. Their man-devouring Ch. 6. 5. They have not yet been Gospellized Ch. 7. 6. Their calamicies as 28. Deut. Ch. 8. Part 2. Some contrary reasonings removed 1. In the Generall Ch. 1. 2. Particularly How 1. The Jewes should get into America Chap. 1. 2. So few empeople that great part of the world Ch. 3. 3. Become so predigiously barbarous Chap. 4. Part. 3. Earnest desires for hearty endeavours to make them Christian 1. To the Planters 1. Cause of their removall Chap. 1. 2. Hope of the Natives Conversion Chap 2. 3. Directions to it Chap. 3. 4. Cautions about it Chap. 4. 2. To the English there 1. In behalfe of the Planters aspersions wiped off Chap. 5. 6. 2. Towards the Natives conversion 1. Motives Chap. 7. 2. Helps Chap. 8. 3. Encouragements from our Countrymens pious endeavours there Ch. 9. 4. And the successe thereof upon the Indians Ch. 10. The Preface to the READER BOna domus in ipso veistbulo debetagnosci saith Austin the portall commonly promiseth somewhat of the house it self and prefaces be as doors that let in the Reader to the Booke and bespeake much of the intention of the writer you are in some measure prepared already by the foregoing Epistle with the forefront and first page Marsilius Ficinus said of his booke De triplici Vita Esca tituli tam suavis quam plurimos alliciet ad gustandum The title will invite some to further enquiry it is in mans nature to be well pleased with novelties thence later times have had good leave to correct former mistakes It was written with confidence long since that the shee Beares did licke their informe litter into fashion that the young Viper thrusts its Dam out of the world to bring it selfe into it and that the Swan sings its owne dirige at his dying all which be sufficiently confuted by after experiences famous varieties of this sort be daily produced to view those are curious enquiries into common errors by Doctor Browne It was said of one contort in body but of a fine spirit Animus Galbae malè habitat It was a bad house for so good an Inhabitant many thought so and worse of Richard the third King of England till those late endeavours to rectifie him and his readers that Geographia Sacra is an exact and accurate worke in respect of the subject and materials the scattering of Nations at the building of Babel and it may puzzle some mens thoughts that hee should know so well the places of their dispersion so long since and yet wee continue ignorant what is become of Gods owne first people which shall be recovered to him againe and have not been missing so many yeeres The Trojans though now no Nation live yet in the ambitious desire of other people clayming from them their descent The Jewes once the Lords owne peculiar people are now the scomme and scorne of the world Florus calls their glory the Temple Impiae gentis arcanum Democritus another Historian said they worshipped an Asses head every third yeere sacrificed a man c. Others speake spightfull things of them and their pettigree only the Lacedemonian King in that Letter whereof you have a copy 1 Macab 12. 20. c. tells Onias the High Priest It is found in writing that the Spartans and Jewes are Brethren and come out of the generation of Abraham The originall indeed of the Jewes is assuredly knowne to themselves and all Christians Wee have no such evidence for any other people that have now a being there is nothing more in the darke to the inhabitants of the severall parts of this earth then their owne beginnings and t is thus in Countries of along time knowne to each other and yet in such
more unto the perfect day Pro. 4. 18. and oh that all our Nation here and there would forbeare all other strivings being ashamed and afraid lest their woefull quarrels be told in Gath and published in the streets of Askalon to the prejudice of the Gospels progresse here and there and every where Erasmus felt what he said of the differences in his time Tragaediae Lutheranae mihi ipsi etiam calculo molestiores and who laments not the wofull tearings of our Nation who bewailes not to see the breakings of the sheepfold who mournes not to heare the strange bleeting of the flocks and what soule is not grieved for the great divisions of England and let me wish once more Oh that all who love the Lord Jesus in sincerity would study to speake the same things and that all would be perfectly joyned together in the same minde and in the same judgement 1 Cor. 1. 10. converting all their tongue-combats and pen-contentions into an earnest contending that the faith once delivered to the Saints Jud. 3. might be preserved whole holy and entire among themselves and be with like holinesse and integrity communicated to the Indians that doe now so much hunger and thirst after that righteousnesse of our most deare Lord and Master Christ let us all with our tongues purses pens counsels and prayers promote this worke of God with one shoulder and consent there be among us here that have had this in their daily devotions more then twenty yeares which is mentioned to no other end but from desire to call in thy helpe also I will take leave by commending to thy practice the imitation of learned and holy Theod. Beza in his daily prayer for the Iewes Lord Iesus thou dost justly avenge the contempt of thy selfe and that ingratefull people is worthy of thy most severe indignation but Lord remember thy covenant and for thy names sake be favourable to those miserable wretches and to us the most unworthy of all men unto whom thou hast vouchsafed thy mercy bestow this goodnesse also that we may grow in thy grace that we be not instruments of thy wrath against them but rather both by the knowledg of thy word and by the examples of holy life we may by the assistance and vertue of thy holy Spirit reduce them into the right way that thou maist once be glorified of all Nations and people for ever Amen An Epistolicall Discourse Of Mr. IOHN DVRY TO Mr. THOROWGOOD Concerning his conjecture that the Americans are descended from the Israelites With the History of a Portugall Iew Antonie Monterinos attested by Manasseh Ben Israel to the same effect SIR IAm bound to thank you for the communication of your booke which I have read with a great deale of delight and satisfaction for the rarity of the subject and the variety of your observations thereupon which you have deduced with as much probability to make out your theme as History can afford matter I did shew it to another friend of great judgement and ingenuity who was so taken with it that he said he would have it to be coppied out at his cost if you would not publish it to the world which hee and I have resolved to importune you to doe for although at first blush the thing which you offer to be believed will seeme to most men incredible and extravigant yet when all things are laid rationally and without prejudice together there will be nothing of improbability found therein which will not be swallowed up with the appearance of contrary likelyhoods of things possible and lately attested by some to be truths whereof to confirme your probable conjectures I shall give you that information which is come to my hands at severall times in these late yeares which you if you shall thinke fit may publish to the world as I have received them which to the probability of your conjectures adde so much light that if the things which I shall relate be not meere fictions which I assure you are none of mine for you shall have them without any addition as I have received them none can make any further scruple of the truth of your assertion but before I come to particulars I shall tell you of some thoughts which are come upon this occasion into my minde concerning Gods way of dealing with mens spirits for the manifestation of his truth and wisdome to those that seeke after it and concerning the wonderfull contrivances by which he brings his counsell to passe beyond all mens thoughts I have observed and every one that will take notice must needs perceive that the spirits of men in reference to spiritual matters whether divine or humane by humane I meane all matters of science and industry depending upon judgement and sagacity are distinguishable into two kinds the one are stedfast to some principles and the other are unstable this distinction in divine matters is clear from 2 Pet. 3. 17. Jude ver 3 4 6 12 13 17 18 20 21. and in humane matters wee need none other proofe but daily experience Againe these that are stedfast to their principles will be found of two sorts some are led in an ordinary common way and rest therein admitting of nothing further then what they have attained unto some though they doe not undervalue the ordinary waies which in their owne kinds are usefull and necessary yet they aspire to something more then ordinary and rest not where they are they believe that both in humane and divine matters there is as long as we are in this life a plus ultra and that we never ought to rest in seeking after the advancement of learning and the increase of knowledge till wee shall come to see the Father of lights face ro face the different inclinations of these three sorts of men in the world leading them to different courses and straines in their proceedings and these begetting divers encounters amongst them wherein they disagree and know not how to right matters towards one another for mutuall content and edification are the causes of all our strife and confusion in all affaires as well of Religious as of civill concernment nor is it possible to be free from the disorders and distempers which make the life of mankinde uncomfortable in this kind and full of vexation till God hath removed those that fall away from their owne stedfastnesse out of the earth which will not come to passe till hee hath filled the earth with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea till hee hath brought us all that are stedfast unto true principles and that walke by rules unto the unity of the faith and knowledge of the sonne of God unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the fulnesse of Christ which things because they are clearely promised wee may expect shall come to passe but till then we shall be carried differently about with severall winds of doctrine and ensnared in
his hands shall be tied behind him and he severely punish'd 4. If a womans haire hang loose or cut as a mans she shall pay five shillings 5. If a woman goes with naked breasts she shall pay two shillings six pence 6. All men that weare long locks shall pay five shillings c. They were desirous to know the name of their Town it was said Noonanetum i. e. rejoycing because the English rejoyced at their desires to know God and God did rejoyce at it this pleased them much The two honest Indians told us that Waaubon and the rest used these expressions in prayer Take away Lord my stony heart another O Lord wash my soule another Lord lead me when I die to heaven December 9. The children being catechized and that of Ezechiel touching the dry bones opened they offered their children to be instructed by us complaining they had nothing to give us We propounded sundry questions to them and one of them being asked what was sinne said a naughty heart another old man complained of his feares he purposed to keepe the Sabbath yet he was afraid whether he should goe to hell or heaven another complained of other Indians reviling and calling them rogues for cutting off their lockes for since the word hath wrought upon them they discerne the vanity of their pride in their hair of their owne accord therefore they cut it modestly Second Treatise THE awakening of these Indians raised up a noise round about a Sachim from Concord side came to Noonanetum to an Indian lecture where the Lord spake so to his heart that hee desired to cast off his sinnefull courses c. some of his men opposed him therein he called the chiefe of them about him and spake to this effect That they had no reason at all to oppose the way of the English for their good while you lived after the Indian fashion what did the Sachims for you onely sought their owne ends out of you taking away your skinnes kettles and Wampam at their pleasure but the English care not for your goods onely seeke your good c. Upon this they desired Mr Elliot should come among them and preach and they framed to themselves certaine lawes for their more religious and civill government 1. Abusers of themselves by wines or strong liquors shall pay for every time 20 s. 2. There shall be no more Powawing the penalty 20 s. 3. They desire to be stirred up to seeke God 4. And understand the wiles of Sathan 5. And detest them 6. That they may improve their time better 7. A lyar shall pay for the first fault 5 s. for the second 10 s. for the third 20 s. 8. Against stealing 9. Having more wives than one 10. Against pride 11. For paying their debts to the English 12. Observing the Lords day prophaners of it pay 20 s. 13. VVeare their haire comely as the English offenders pay 58. 14. None grease themselves as formerly penalty 5 s. 15. Set up prayer in their VVigwams before also and after meate 16. Adultery punish'd with death 17. So wilfull murther 18. Not come to an English mans house without knocking 19. VVhosoever beates his wife shall pay 20 s. c. Most of these Indians set up prayer morning and evening in their families before and after meate keep the Lords day cut their haire minister what edification they can one to another manifesting great willingnesse to conforme unto the English fashions March 3. 1647. At the Lecture in Noonanetum wee saw some Indian women well affected and considering how unmeet it is for women to aske questions publikely they were desired to acquaint their husbands privatly therewith or the Interpretor the first was propounded by the wife of one VVampooas VVhether said she doe I pray when my husband prayeth if I speake nothing as he doth but I like what he saith and my heart goes with it The wife of one Totherswampe proposed this VVhether an husband should doe well to pray with his wife and yet continue in his passions and be angry with her c. An aged Indian complained of an unruly sonne asking what should be done with him when hee will not heare Gods word though his father command him nor forsake his drunkennesse An aged Indian told us openly that the very things which Mr Elliot taught them of God and his Commandements they have heard some old men speake c. and many of them have now this apprehension among them that their forefathers did know God but after this they fell into a great sleepe and when they did awaken they quite forgate him Another Indian told his dreame that about two yeeres before the comming over of the English one night hee could not sleepe a good while then he fell into a dream thinking he saw a great many men come into those parts cloathed as the English now are a man rose up among them all in blacke with a thing in his hand which hee now sees was all one Englishmans booke hee stood upon a higher place than the rest on one side the English and a great many Indians on the other he told all the Indians that God was Moosquantum or angry with them and would kill them for their sinnes whereupon himselfe hee said stood up and desired to know of the blacke man what God would doe with him and his Squaw and Papooses but hee would not answer him a first time nor a second till hee desired the third time and then hee smiled on him and said Hee and his Papooses should be safe God would give unto them Mitchen i. e. victualls and other good things and so he awakened At Noonanctum the Indian men women and children especially upon the Lecture daies are clad partly by the gift of the English and partly by their owne labour Iune 9. the first day of the Synods meeting at Cambridge the morning spent in a preparative Sermon to that worke in the afternoone there was a great confluence of Indians from all parts to heare Mr Elliot out of Ephe. 2. 1. shewed them their miserable condition out of Christ dead in trespasses and sinnes pointing unto them the Lord Jesus who onely could quicken them They then propounded questions What Countreyman Christ was How far that place from them Where Christ was now How they might lay hold on him And where being now absent from them The English Magistrares Ministers and people were much affected at what they saw and heard An Indian brake out into admiration that God should looke upon them that had bin so long in darknesse Me wonder saith he at God that hee should thus deale with us That winter many questions were propounded Why some so bad that they hate those that would teach them A Squaw said might she not goe and pray in the wood alone when her husband was not at home because she was ashamed to pray in the
it was the use till Ieromes time that all the Churches of the Gentiles sent collections to the Christians at Ierusalem because they all from thence received first the glad tidings of the Gospel where the same Christ is preached there will be the like Christian affections which likewise will be demonstrable upon every possible opportunity Gregory in severall Epistles not lesse then twenty foure to the great personages of those times shewes much zeale in this kind sometimes encouraging them afterwards commending them for their assistance afforded to that glorious worke the first conversion of our Countreymen Nothing more shall now be added but the praise and practise of Albertus the Arch-Bishop of Hamburgh who tooke upon him a resolution to visit in his owne person all the Northerne Provinces not leaving so much as any one Island unbenefitted by his preaching when all things were prepared and his attendants chosen and shipping ready hee was diswaded by Zueno King of Denmarke who told him those people would sooner be instructed by men of their owne Nation who were best acquainted with the rites manners and language thereof the Arch-Bishop hereupon dealt earnestly with others to that purpose and made them most willing to the work for there was not a man among them whom hee had not encouraged and by his bounty hee warmed their zeale in publishing the Gospell frequently repeating that sentence of our Saviour The harvest indeed is great but the labourers are few pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that hee will send forth labourers into his harvest Mat. 9. 37. 38. Finally as David to Solomon in the bulding of the Temple 1 Chr. 22. 16. I wish it were effectually spoken to and by all the English here and there Vp and be doing and the Lord will bee with you The Relation of Master ANTONIE MONTERINOS translated out of the French Copie sent by MANASEH BEN ISRAEL THE eighteenth day of Elul in the yeere five thousand foure hundred and foure from the creation of the World came into this City of Amsterdam Mr Aron Levi alias Antonie Monterinos and declared before me Manassah Ben Israell and divers other chiefe men of the Portugall Nation neer to the said City that which followeth About two yeeres and an halfe agoe the said Monterinos going from the port of Honda in the West Indies to go to the Government of Papian in the Province of Quito did hire some Mules of a certaine Indian Mystique called Francis du Chasteau in which company together with other Indians went a certaine owner of Mules who was also called Francis whom all the Indians named Cacique to whom it fell out passing over the mountaine Cordecilla in a day of great winde and raine that their carriages fell to the ground whereat the Indians being grieved as also at the evill weather they begin to complaine of their ill fortune saying that they deserved all that and more also for their sinnes which the said Francis hearing answered that they should have patience that shortly they should have rest whereunto they answered that they deserved it not having used the holy people so ill and the most noble of all the Nations in the world but contrariwise that all the cruelties which the Spaniards had used against them did befall unto them for the expiating of that sin after they were gone a little while they stopt upon the Mountaine to rest and passe the night season at which time the soresaid Monterinos did take out of a box some few biskets some cheese and sweet-meates and offered some to the soresaid Francis saying to him take this though thou dost speake evill of the Spaniards whereunto hee answered that he had not told the halfe of the hard usage which they received from that cruell and inhumane Nation but that after a short space they should see themselves avenged upon them by a hidden Nation after these discourses between them Mr Monterinos arrived at the Town of Cartagena in the Indies where he was taken by the Inquisition and put in prison one day praying unto God hee uttered these words Blessed be the name of Adonay that hee hath not made me an Idolater a Barbarian an Ethiopian nor an Indian and pronouncing the name of Indian hee reproved himselfe saying the Hebrewes are Indians and then comming againe to himselfe said am not I a soole how can it bee that the Hebrewes should be Indians the same fell out the second and third day making the same prayer and giving the same thankes unto God whence hee gathered that that fancie did not come to him by meere chance remembring also that which passed between him and the aforesaid Indian so that hee tooke an oath hee would so informe himselfe of the whole matter that hee should know the truth and that comming out of prison hee should instantly seeke the Indian and would bring to his minde the discourse which they had together to obtaine by that meanes the satisfaction of his desires Being then come out of prison by the goodnesse of God he went to the forenamed Port of Honda where hee had so much good lucke that hee found instantly the foresaid Indian to whom he made his application and brought into his memory the discourse which they had upon the Mountaine whereunto he answered that he had not forgotten it which Monterinos hearing said that he would goe a journey with him to which hee answered that hee was ready to doe him service So the said Monterinos gave him three Pataques to buy some provision whiles then they followed their journey and talked together the said Monterinos at last discovered himselfe unto the said Indian and told him in these words I am an Hebrew of the tribe of Levi my God is Adonay and all the rest are nothing but mistakes and deceites whereat the Indian being somewhat surprized did aske him the name of his predecessors whereunto hee did answer that they were called Abraham Isaac Iacob and Israel which the Indian hearing did aske of him whether hee had none other Father hee said yea and that hee was called Lodwick of Monterinos but the Indian being not well satisfied as yet said these words unto him on the one side I did rejoyce at that which thou hast said unto me and on the other I am resolving to disbelieve thee because thou canst not tell mee who were thy Fathers whereunto the said Monterinos answered with an oath that the thing which hee said was truth having spent some time in questions and answers and the Indian being wearied at the matter said to him art thou not the sonne of Israell to which he answered yea which the Indian having heard said make an end then of thy speech for certainly thou didst put me in such a confusion that I would have been perplexed at it all my life time nevertheles let us rest a little and drinke and then follow on our discourse After a little space the Indian said unto him if