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A62471	Digitus dei: nevv discoveryes with sure arguments to prove that the Jews (a Nation) or people lost in the world for the space of near 200 years, inhabite now in America; how they came thither; their manners, customs, rites and ceremonies; the unparallel'd cruelty of the Spaniard to them; and that the Americans are of that race. Manifested by reason and scripture, which foretell the calling of the Jewes; and the restitution of them into their own land, and the bringing back of the ten tribes from all the ends and corners of the earth, and that great battell to be fought. With the removall of some contrary reasonings, and an earnest desire for effectuall endeavours to make them Christians. Whereunto is added an epistolicall discourse of Mr John Dury, with the history of Ant: Monterinos, attested by Manasseh Ben Israell, a chief rabby. By Tho: Thorowgood, B:D.	Thorowgood, Thomas, d. ca. 1669.; Dury, John, 1596-1680.; Manasseh ben Israel, 1604-1657.	1652 (1652)	Wing T1066; ESTC R219280	112,228	182

Sheepfold Io. 10. 16. It is true our owne Countrey in many respects stands in need of helpe wee are fallen into the last and worst times the old age of the world full of dangerous and sinnefull diseases Iniquity is encreased and if ever if to any people the saying of that Torrent of Tullian eloquence so Ierome calls Lactantius be applicable it is to poore England that is not onely in the gall of bitternesse but in the very dregs of error and ungodlinesse Ideo mala omnia rebus humanis ingravescunt quia Deus hujus mundi effector ac gubernator derelictus est quia susceptaesunt contra quam fas est impiae religiones postremo quia ne coli quidem vel à paucis Deus sinitur But O my soule if thou be wise be wise for thy selfe Pro. 9. 12. and give mee leave to say to you as 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 Iosh. 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 h●…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 〈◊〉 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

Septem 4. 1649. I Have perused this learned and pious discourse concerning the Americans and thinking that it will much conduce to that most Christian worke of their conversion to the faith of the Lord Jesus Christ I doe approve it as very worthy to be printed and published Iohn Downame DIGITUS DEI NEVV DISCOVERYES WITH Sure Arguments to prove that the Iews a Nation or People lost in the world for the space of near 200 years inhabite now in America How they came thither Their Manners Customs Rites and Ceremonies The unparallel'd cruelty of the Spaniard to them And that the Americans are of that Race Manifested by Reason and Scripture which foretell the Calling of the Iewes and the Restitution of them into their own Land and the bringing back of the Ten Tribes from all the ends and corners of the Earth and that great Battell to be fought With the Removall of some contrary Reasonings and an earnest desire for effectuall endeavours to make them Christians Whereunto is added An Epistolicall Discourse of Mr Iohn Dury with the History of Ant Monterinos attested by Manasseh Ben Israell a chief Rabby By Tho Thorowgood B D. Cant. 8. 8. We have a little sister and she hath no breasts what shall we doe for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for Mat. 8. 11. Many shall come from the East and from the West and shall sit down with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdome of Heaven Aethiopes vertuntur in filios Dei si egerint paenitentiam filii Dei transeunt in Aethiopes si in profundum venerint peccatorum Hieronym in Esai London Printed for Thomas Slater and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Angell in Duck-Lane 1652. TO THE HONOVRABLE Knights and Gentlemen that have residence in and relation to the County of Norfolk Peace from the God of Peace WHen the glad tidings of the Gospels sounding in America by the preaching of the English arrived hither my soule also rejoyced within me and I remembred certaine papers that had been laid aside a long time upon review of them and some additions to them they were privately communicated unto such as perswaded earnestly they might behold further light being thus finished and licenced also to walke abroad as they were stepping forth that incivility charged upon Chrysippus occurred that he dedicated not his writings to any King or Patron which custome presently seemed not onely lawfull but as ancient as those Scriptures where Saint Luke in the history of the Acts of the Apostles applies himselfe to Theophilus Act. 1. 1. And Saint Iohn to the Elect Lady so named some thinke or for her graces so entituled I was easily induced to follow this fashion and my thoughts soone reflected upon you Who are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as well as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lovers of God and choice men of your Countrey I may be censured for this high generall and ambitious dedication but I doe freely publish my own utter unworthinesse t is true my respects and love be very much to you all and my native soile yet in this I doe not drive any private designe I looke beyond my selfe at your honour the honour of the Nation yea the glory of God and the soule-good of many millions that are yet in darknesse and out of Christ By you is the following tract communicated to the world I wish and pray that the designe bespoken in it may be cordially furthered by you and all that read or heare thereof t is like you will finde in the probabilities so many Iudaicall resemblances in America that as it was said of old 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 either Plato writes like Philo the Iew or Philo is become Platonicke so the Iewes did Indianize or the Indians doe Iudaize for surely they are alike in many very many remarkable particulars and if they bee Iewes they must not for that be neglected visible comments indeed they are of that dismall Text Thou shalt become an astonishment a proverbe and a by-word to all Nations c. Deut. 20. 37. and so they are every where to this day what more reproachfull obloquy is there among men then this Thou art a Iew Oh the bitter fruits of disobedience and t is high time for us Gentiles to lay up that example in the midst of our hearts Pro. 4. 21. remembring alwaies because of unbeliefe they were broken off and if God spared not the naturall branches take heed lest hee spare not thee Rom. 11. 21. It was a suddaine sentence Tam viles inter Christianos Iudaei ut inter mundum triticum mures Iewes are as bad and vile among Christians as Mice in cleane whoate for glorious were their privileges and we have a share in some of them that last especially of whom concerning the flesh Christ came who is God over all blessed for ever Rom. 9. 4 5. and for another thing they have highly merited our regard To them were commited the Oracles of God Rom. 3. 9. The holy Scriptures were concredited to them and they have faithfully preserved them for us and conveyed them to us Former times indeed found cause to exterminate them these dominions I say nothing for such their reintroduction which must be with sacred and civill cautions that the svveet name of our dearest Lord be not blasphemed nor the Natives robbed of their rights but when will Christians in earnest endeavour their conversion if the name of Ievv must be odious everlastingly I speak for their Gospelizing though some suspect they are never likely to come again under that covenant as if the Liber repudii the bill of divorce mentioned by the Prophet did put them away from God for ever Esa. 50. 1. as if they should return to their Spouse no more but that there is for them a time of love and that they shall be grafted in Rom. 11. 23. is manifested afterwards upon Scripture grounds and if the period of their wandering be upon its determination and their recovery approching how may wee rejoyce in the returne of that Prodigall It is meet that wee should make merry and be glad for our brother that was dead is reviving againe Luk. 15 32. How should wee beg for them that God would poure upon them the spirit of grace and supplication that they may looke upon him whom they have pierced and mourne for him as one mourneth for his onely sonne Zach. 12. 10. Or if the lost Tribes are not to be found in America of whatsoever descent and origination the poore Natives be if they finde the Lord Christ and the Nov-angles be the Wisemen guiding them unto their peace great cause shall wee have to lift up the high praises of our God in spirituall exultation how should wee cast our mite into this treasury yea our Talent our Talents if wee have them for certainely the time is comming That as there is one Shepherd there shall be one

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 erus 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 fight 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 The Preface to the READER BOna domus in ipso veistbulo debet agnosci 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 Iewes 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 pe●…tigree 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 Spartaens and Iewes are Brethren and come out of the generation of Abraham The originall indeed of the Iewes 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 disquisition they cannot affoord one another almost any light or help no wonder therefore that the Originall of the Americans is in such uncertaine obscurity for their very name hath not been heard of much more than one hundred and fifty yeares t is a wonder rather that so great a part of the world should be till then Terra

of latter times Dr Fletcher a neere neighbour to them while he lived among the Russes as Agent for Queen Elizabeth supposeth the same and giveth divers probable arguments inducing him thereto the names of many Townes in Tartary the same with those in Israell Tabor Ierico Chorasin c. They are circumcised distinguished into Tribes and have many Hebrew words among them c. for hee addeth other probabilities yea and the same M. Paris shewes that the Jewes themselves were of that mind and called them their brethren of the seed of Abraham c. There was another transmigration of them when Vespatian destroyed Ierusalem their owne and other Histories speake little thereof it might be well worthy the endeavours of some serious houres to enquire after the condition of that Nation since ou●… most deare Saviours Ascension a strange thing is reported by themselves and of themselves and with such confidence that t is in their devotion It saith when Vespatian wan Ierusalem he gave order that three ships laden with that people might be put to Sea but without Pilot oares or tackling these by windes and tempests were woefully shattered and so dispersed that they were cast upon severall coasts one of them in a Countrey called Lovanda the second in another region named Arlado the third at a place called Bardeli all unknown in these time the last courteously entertained these strangers freely giving them grounds and vineyards to dresse but that Lord being dead another arose that was to them as Pharaoh to old Israell and he said to them he would try by Nabuchedonosors experiment upon the three young men if these also came from the fire unscorch'd he would believe them to be Jewes they say Adoni-Melech most noble Emperour let us have also three daies to invoke the Majesty of our God for our deliverance which being granted Ioseph and Benjamin two brothers and their cosin Samuell consider what is meet to be done and agree to fast and pray three daies together and meditate every one of them a prayer which they did and out of them all they compiled one which they used all those three daies and three nights on the morning of the third day one of them had a vision upon Esa. 43. 2. which marvelously encouraged them all soone after a very great fire was kindled and an ininnumerable company of people came to see the burning into which they cast themselves unbidden without feare singing and praying till all the combustible matter was consumed and the fire went out the Jewes every where published this miracle and commanded that this prayer should be said every Monday and Thursday morning in their Synagogues which is observed by them to this day saith Buxtorfius In this narration if there be any truth wee may looke for some confirmation thereof from America But that there be no Jewes in those parts Io. de Laet endeavours otherwise to evince as 1. They are not circumcised therefore not Jewes but their circumcision hath been made so manifest that this reason may well be retorted they are circumcised therefore they be Jewes Againe the Indians are not covetous nor learned nor carefull of their Antiquities therefore they are not Judaicall in which allegations if there be any strength it will be answered in the examination of those three following scrupulous and difficult questions 1. Whence and how the Iewes should get into America 2. How multiply and enpeople so great a Continent so vast a land 3. How grow so prodigiously rude and barbarous CHAP II. Answer to the first Quere How the Iewes should get into America THE Jewes did not come into America as is feigned of Ganimed riding on Eagles wings neither was there another Arke made to convey them thither the Angels did not carry them by the haires of the heads as Apocryphall Habakuk was conducted into Babylon these were not caught by the Spirit of the Lord and setled there as Saint Philip was from Ierusalem to Asotus Act. 8. 5. They were not guided by an Hart as t is written of the Hunns when they brake in upon the nearer parts of Europe Procopius reports of the Maurisii an African Nation that they were of those Gergesites or Jebusites spoken of in the Scriptures for he had read a very ancient writing in Phaenician Characters thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. We are they that fled from the face of the destroyer Iesus the sonne of Nave and so the Septuagint names him whom wee call the sonne of Nun and as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 formerly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was not in those daies of such odious signification It may be said these might passe from the parts of Asia into Lybia by land but the Jewes could not so get into America which is thought by some to be very farre distant on every side from the Continent Acosta therefore supposeth the Natives might come at first by sea into that maine land alledging some experiments to that purpose but in the next Chapter he judgeth it more probable whosoever the inhabitants be that they travelled thither by land for though some few men happily by tempests might be cast on those shores yet it is unlike so large a part of the earth by such mishaps should be replenished F. Cotton f it seemes was puzled with this scruple therefore in his memorialls he propounded to the Daemoniaque that Interrogatory Quomodo animalia in insulas c. Quomodo homines how got men and other creatures into those Islands and Countries Acosta subscribes at length to the sentence of St. Austin for the entrance of Beares Lions and Wolves that they arrived thither either by their owne swimming or by the importation of curious men or by the miraculous command of God and ministration of the Angels yet his finall determination is and he lived seventeen yeeres in that Countrey America joyneth somewhere with some other part of the world or else is but by a very little distance separated from it And it may yet be further considered the scituation of Countries is much altered by tract of time many places that were formerly sea are now dry land saith Strabo a great part af Asia and Africa hath bin gained from the Atlantique Ocean the sea of Corinth was drunk up by an earthquake Lucania by the force of the water was broken off from Italy and got a new name Sicily saith Tertullian the sea gave unto the earth the Island Rhodes Pliny mentions divers places Islands long since but in his time adjoyned to the Continent and the sea hath devoured many Townes and Cities that were anciently inhabited that Vallis Silvestris as the Latin translation renders Gen. 14. 3. or of Siddim i. e. Laboured fields as t is in Hebrew was certainely a vaile of slime-pits in the daies of Abraham and Lot ver 10. which very place about foure hundred yeeres after was a sea

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 Magistrates 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 Wigwam before company To what Nation Iesus Christ came first and when If a man should be inclosed in iron a foot thicke and thrown into the fire what would become of his soul would it come forth thence Why did not God give all men good hearts How long is it before men believe that have the word of God made knowne unto them How they should know when their faith and prayers bee good Why did not God having all power kill the devill that made all men so bad If we be made so weake by sinne in our hearts how can wee come before God and sanctifie a sabbath They propounded three cases about the Sabbath In the exercises besides prayer for a blessing Mr. Elliot doth four things 1. He catechizeth the children and youth by which the aged learne 2. He preacheth out of some Scripture plainely and briefely 3. If there be cause admonition follows 4. They aske us questions and we answer them Some cases and admonitions are there mentioned 1. Wampoonas upon a light occasion beat his wife for this hee was brought before the Assembly where the quality of the sinne was opened as against Gods command cruelty to his owne body c. hee turned his face to the wall and wept hee was so penitent and melting that all forgave him but the Indians would have his fine notwithstanding his repentance which he paid also willingly Another case of was of Cutshamaquin a Sachim who had a son fourteen or fifteen yeeres old hee was drunk and behaved himselfe disobediently against his father and mother they rebuked him but he despised their admonition hee was brought before the Assembly stood out a long time though his father for his example confessed his owne faults the young man still persisted divers of us called upon him to acknowledge his offence against his parents and entreat their forgivenesse yet he refused the Indians also affectionately put him on divers spake one after another and some severall times at last hee humbled himselfe confessed his sinne and asked forgivenesse of his father taking him by the hand at which his father burst into teares he did the same to his mother who wept also as did divers others and many English wept also the house was filled with weeping wee went to prayer all the time thereof the Sachim wept so abundantly that the boord hee stood upon was all dropt with his teares Some questions were after this propounded An old Powoow asked Why we had not taught them to know God sooner Another said Before he knew God he was well but since I have knowne God and sin I finde my heart full of sin Whether their children goe when they die because they have not sinned If any of them shall goe to heaven seeing their hearts are so full of sin especially Nanwunwudsquas mad after women If they leave Powawing and pray to God what shall they doe when they are sicke having no skill in Physick What shall we say to such Indians as oppose our praying unto God and believing in Christ what g●…t you say they by this you goe naked still and are as poore as we our corne is as good as yours and we take more pleasure then you c. They bring their cases to Mr. Elliot A Law is now among them against gaming other Indians demand their old debts which they refuse to pay because it was a sinne to play and they must not pay such sinnefull debts They tooke it to heart when Mr. Elliot told them he was afraid they were weary and cooled in their love to religion and enquired when they did heare and pray aright how they might know when they were weary of them what time it might be before the Lord might come and make them know him c. some other cases were moved by them A man before hee knew God had two wives the first is barren the second brought forth sweet children which of these must hee put away if the former they offended God if the latter they illegitimate their owne deare children And a Squaw leaves her husband commits adultery with remote Indians heares the word repents and returnes to her husband still unmarried is not he bound to receive her An old widdow Squaw said if when men know God God loves them why then are any afflicted after they know him Mr. Elliot preaching upon Ephes. 5. 11. Have no fellowship c. They asked what Englishmen thought of him because he came among the wicked Indians and taught them Another said Suppose two men sin one knowes it the other doth not will God punish both alike Againe If a wise Indian teach good things to other Indians should not he be as a father or brother to such One T●…taswampe prayed at the buriall of an Indian child with such zeale variety of gracious expressions and abundance of tears that the woods rang with their sighs and prayers the Englishman that heard him said hee was ashamed of himselfe and some others that have had so great light but want such good affections Third Treatise THat woman that propounded the first question according to appointment by another man 2. Treatise p. 6. hujus p. 4. moved this also When my heart prayeth with my husband praying is this praying to God aright This woman kept at home learned quickly to spinne well held her children to labour after she submitted to the Gospel her life was exemplary she died of a sicknesse taken in childbed Mr. Elliot visited her severall times prayed with her asked her about her spirituall estate she said she still loved God though he made her sicke and was resolved to pray unto him as long as she lived and to refuse Powawing shee believed God would pardon all her sinnes because Jesus Christ dyed for her that God was well pleased in him that she was willing to die believed

but those that winne many to this righteousnesse shall shine as the starres for ever and ever Dan. 12. 3. and not onely hereafter in that heaven of heavens but this shall bee told as Englands memoriall in present and succeeding generations and those American Nations especially shall call them blessed Mal. 3. 12. yea the blessings of them that were ready to perish will come upon them Job 29. 13. for they have done worthily in Ephrata and are famous in Bethelem Ruth 4. 11 and when they be indeed sensible of this great mercy they will not onely say thanks be unto God for this unspeakeable gift 2 Cor. 9. 15. But they will long to requite this kindnesse to the English also and as of old almost all Nations receiving from Ierusalem the first meanes of their Christianity expressed their gratefull mindes by their charitable beneficence upon all occasions to those that dwelt there this began in the Apostles daies Act. 11. 19. Rom 15. 26. Those of Macedonia and Achaia distributed to the poor Saints at Ierusalem so 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 El●…l 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 M●…les 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 foresaid Monterinos did take out of a box some few biskets some cheese and sweet-meates and offered some to the foresaid 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 foole 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