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A39225	A further accompt of the progresse of the Gospel amongst the Indians in New-England, and of the means used effectually to advance the same set forth in certaine letters sent from thence declaring a purpose of printing the Scriptures in the Indian tongue into which they are already translated : with which letters are likewise sent an epitome of some exhortations delivered by the Indians at a fast, as testimonies of their obedience tot he Gospell : as also some helps directing the Indians how to improve naturall reason unto the knowledge of the true God.	Eliot, John, 1604-1690.; Pierson, Abraham, 1608-1678. Some helps for the Indians shewing them how to improve their natural reason.; Company for Propagation of the Gospel in New England and the Parts Adjacent in America.	1659 (1659)	Wing E510; ESTC R3341	24,570	48

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

A further Accompt of the Progresse of the GOSPEL amongst the INDIANS IN NEW-ENGLAND AND Of the means used effectually to advance the same SET FORTH In certaine Letters sent from thence declaring a purpose of Printing the Scriptures in the Indian Tongue into which they are already Translated With which Letters are likewise sent an Epitome of some Exhortations delivered by the Indians at a fast as Testimonies of their obedience to the Gospell As also some helps directing the Indians how to improve naturall reason unto the knowledge of the true God LONDON Printed by M. Simmons for the Corporation of New-England 1659. TO THE CRISTIAN READER Beloved Brethren AS it is the Ardent prayer of all that love the Lord Iesus in sincerity that his Kingdome may be enlarged and the glorious l●…ght of the Gospell may shine forth into all N●…ions that all the ends of the world may see the salvation of our God that the Stone cut out without hands may become so great a mountaine as to fill the Earth that the Idols may be utterly abolished and the Gods of the Earth famished and that all the Isles of the Heathen may worship the only true God So the strange scarcely to be paraleld concussions which have been in the world of late yeares and so still continue may seeme to be no improbable harbingers of the more glorious manifestations of Christ thereunto in answer to those desires of his servants For the Shaking of all Nations maketh way for the coming of him who is the desire of all Nations The wind and the earthquake and the fire did usher in the still voyce which sp●…ke unto Eliah When the Spirit came down upon the Apostles there was a sound as of a rushing mighty wind and the house was shaken when the people therein were to be silled with the holy Ghost How much those winds and shakings which carried many good m●…n out of Old into New England have made way to 〈◊〉 publishing of the name of Christ in those barbarous pla●…s 〈◊〉 the day of small things hath not been altogether despicable there How the leaven of the Gospell doth still continue to season more of the lump as it hath by ma ny former publis●…ed specimina been demonstrated so these papers now printed by the care of the Corporation for New-England do give us further evidence assurance thereof And truly it cannot but be matter both of abundant thanksgivings to God to find poor Americans speking the languag of Canaan subscribing with their hand unto the Lord and sirnaming themselves by the name of Israel also of great comfort and encouragement unto all those whose hearts the Lord hath stirred up either here in a way of liberall 〈◊〉 to honour him with their su●…stance and to bring their Silver and Gold unto the name of the Lord that their mer●…handize may be Holinesse unto him or there in a way of labour and service setti●…g their heart and hand to sna●…ch poor souls as brands out of the fire to see such a signall bl●…ssing upon their paines and prayers and such seeds of the Everlasti●…g Gospel come up in so barren and desolate a soile making way unto a plentifull harvest for those who shall after enter upon their labours No monies no s●…udies will make a more ample returne then those wbich are laid up in heaven which are laid out upon building the house of God If David and his princes did praise the Lord for that they were able to offer so willingly towards the Erecting of a materiall Temple for which was gathered one of the greatest summs as some learned judge that we read of in any history how much reason have we to bl●…sse God when he giveth us hearts to offer willingly towards the building of living and spirituall Temples and when he l●…teth us see so glorious a returne to our prayers contributions and labours in the conversion of many souls unto God To the end that God may be glorified good men who have already furthered this excellent work may be comforted and others excited and provoked to put to their hand unto the advancement thereof are these papers published being testimonies of the great zeale and care of our Brethren there to promote the Gospell and of the blessing of God on their labours in the professed subjection of many poor soules thereunto Two great works we find here further undertaken in order to that service The one some helps and directions to the Indians how to improve their naturall reason unto the knowledg of the true God The reason why there is so short and imperfect a specimen given of it is because the ships came away from New-England before any more of the Copy was wrought off from the presse It is a work likely to be by the blessing of God of singular use to the natives there and a very proper and necessary course for those to take who would convert and perswade Pagans to beleeve the Truth The Lord was pleased at the first preaching of the Gospel to confirme it with signs and wonders following for the more speedy planting of it by only twelve and those possibly aged men in so many places of the world And how farre he may still bear witnesse thereunto not only by the holy lives of Christians but by eminent and remarkable providences which may tantamount to miracles I shall not here inquire But certainly here may be much use made of naturall reason to demonstrate unto Pagans the falsenesse of the way they are in and so to prepare a way for entertainment of the Truth Though the Doctrine of the Gospel be supernaturall and not investigable by humane disquisition be●ng made known to men and Angells onely by the Revelation of the Holy Spirit yet when it is revealed the awakening of Legall impressions in the naturall conscience will provoke men to attend prepare them to entertain it when it shall be preached unto them 1. All men have in them a desire of Happinesse and an aversation from misery 2. All men more or lesse have some indeleble impressions of a Godhead which cannot be utterly worne out heathen Philosophers have acknowledged that no nation in the world is so barbarous where the confession and adoration of a Deity is not to be found 3. There are innate praesensions of the Immortality of the soul within it selfe for Heathen Philosophers have by the light of nature discover'd and acknowledg'd it 4. There is a natural 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or habit of morall and practicall principles and consequently there are naturall impressions of guilt and fear upon the conscience and tacit evidences of judgment due unto the workers of iniquity An heathen Poet could say Frigida mens est Criminibus tacitâ sudant praecordia culpâ 5. There being in all men a naturall desire of Good and a naturall Testimony of Conscience that God is the giver of

it so that when evills are upon them which they cannot remove themselves they naturally call out for a divine helpe above them to give them deliverance from hence it cometh to passe that there are innate apprehensions of some Religion necessary in order to the knowledge and service of a God as a requisite means to the obtaining of so d●sireable an end as Happinesse is 6. Since it is exactly consonant to right reason that he to whom service is due should direct and prescribe the way whereby he will be served for to serve another is to do that which he willeth to be done It is therefore necessary that the way of service and Religion be revealed unto us from God 7. Because these premises are indelebly written in the minds of men by nature Therefore Satan not being able as Prince of this world alone to carry men on in a quiet way of wickednesse without some face of Religion and worship amongst them hath invaded the name of a God and made himselfe God of this world and as a God hath set up various wayes of wicked worship consistent with his other principles and laws of wicked lusts thereby to bind men the faster unto himselfe ut fiant mise●…is delicta religiosa as Cyprian speaks that men might be tied by their Religion unto wickednesse Now the work of Christ in the Gospel is 1. As he is Prince of righteousnesse to destroy the lusts and works of the Devill 2. As he is God blessed for ever to abolish the Idols to famish the Gods and to turne men from vanities unto the living God which made heaven and earth This to doe we may in this manner proceed with an heathen who knows not God We may convince him by his own naturall and implanted light 1. That there is a God who is righteous and holy who cannot be deceived will not be mocked 2. That this God hath implanted in all men a light and law of nature by which they are to walk 3. That he with whose soul we deale hath violated that light and law of nature and is thereby become a sinner 4. That sinne is attended with guilt and punishment bindeth the sinner over unto death and judgment 5. That there is in him a naturall desire to be delivered from death and to be happy 6. That he is not able by any strength or power of his own to free himselfe from death or to make himselfe happy 7. That that way of worship and service which he trusteth in for this deliverance will never ●…e able to effect it for him For the vanity of Idolatrous and Satanicall worship may by evidence of Reason and by the inherent characters of impurity and absurdity within it selfe be demonstrated By that way the Lord in Scripture usually doth disprove it Deut. 4. 28. Psal. 115. 4 8. Isa. 41. 24 28. Isa. 44. 9 20. Isa. 46. 1. 9. Jer. 10. 3 11. Habak 2. 18 20. Act. 14. 15 17. Act 17. 23 31. Rom. 1. 23 25. 8. Being thus brought into straits and extremities and reduced ad impossibile very self-love awakened by the spirit of bondage will dictate unto a man when he is convinced of being uttterly out of the way to inquire what he shall do to be saved and to listen unto that which is by credible persons reported to be the right way 9. Being thus perswaded to look into the Gospel which is represented unto him as the alone way unto salvation He findeth inherent characters of purity Sanctity and spiritual beauty in it He considereth the miracles and Martyrdomes whereby it hath been confirmed which he hath no more reason to distrust then the truth of any other history He considereth the prevalency of it in the world by the ministry of twelve poor men notwithstanding all the persecutions which have been from time to time raised against it He considereth the holy lives of the Professors of it whereby the wicked lusts which his impure religion alloweth are shamed and rebuked He considereth the nature of it wholly contrary to carnall and secular interests no way complying with or giving the least countenance unto any sinful delights so that it is evident that it was not contrived or obtruded upon men by humane wisdome or to gratifie any carnall designe upon these and the like considerations being set on by the finger of the holy Spirit he is perswaded to beleeve the Gospel and by beleeving comes to reape those Ioyes and comforts as make him know whom he hath beleeved The other work which is set about in order to the premoting of the Gospel amongst the poor Indians is the translating of the Scripture into their tongue and Printing it for their use which as it is a necessary and an excellent worke and a work of great labour in consideration whereof the Reverend Translator deserveth great thanks and encouragement so will it be a worke of cost and charges to provide paper workmen and letters for so large a work And therefore as men when the foundation of a goodly building is going about will lay a stone with their own hands to shew some bounty and encouragement to the workmen who are to carry it on so the laying of this foundation stone seemeth to call unto all those whose hearts the Lord hath made willing to give in their helping hand and chearfull assistance unto a work tending so immediately to the Salvation of souls and glory of that God who hath promised That they who sow bountifully shall reape bountifully who will multiply their ●…eed sown and increase the fruit of their righteousnesse Certainly if Christ look on the supplies which are given to his poor brethren for their bodily reliefe as given to himselfe much more will he accept and reward the endeavours of those who lay out their bounty as he did his blood for the good of mens souls and for the advancement of his kingdome To his blessing I commend you and this excellent service Yours and the Churches Servant in our Common Lord. Ed Reynolds 1 Aprill 1659. This following Letter is sent from the Commissioners for the united Colonies of New-England in New-England and directed as followeth For the much honoured Corporation for the propagation of the Gospel amongst the Indians in New-England these present Honoured and worthy Gentlemen BY our last of 16 th instant we certified you of our purpose to send M r Peirsons Chatichisme by the first opportunity to be Printed in England Since which time it is come unto our hands but upon further consideration in regard of the hazard of sending and difficulty of true Printing it without a fit overseer of the presse by one skilled in the language we have chosen rather to have it printed here and accordingly have taken order for the same and hope it will be finished within three months we have sent you herewith the accounts of this years disbursements in reference to the Indian work shall be ready

full of such free will offerings The Lord hath given us this amazing blow to take away my brother Mayhew His aged Father doth his endeavour to uphold the worke among the poor Indians whom by letters I have incouraged what I can and moved in his behalfe our Commissioners and they have given him some incouragement so that the work in that place is not fallen to the ground I blesse the Lord for it As for the work among us I shall for the present be silent for severall Reasons only let the work it selfe speake I am bold to present you here inclosed with a few notes which my Sonne and I gathered up which were delivered by the persons here named in a day of fasting and prayer out of which short notes you may see what life is in the work The very reason of my gathering up these notes was because my Sonne who had not been at a fast among us before was very much affected with what they delivered so far as he understood them and when I had communicated these notes to some they were very well relished thereby I was imboldened to present them to your selves not knowing but if the Lord please thereby you may have more reall information of their state and progresse then by any thing which were meet for me to say For my selfe I feele my strength to decay and I am not able to doe and bear what I have done and although temptation may sometime breed waverings yet my soul doth desire beleeve that I shall live and dye in the work And as I have dedicated my sons to serve the Lord in this work if he please to accept them so I doe it as they come up and this yeare my second son having taken his first degree in the Colledge I presented him also unto our Commissioners and he is accepted unto the work which mercy my soul doth greatly rejoyce in and I humbly beg your prayers for them that the Lord would bow their green spirits unto the worke and inable them to overlooke the difficultyes and discouragements which lye in the way and thus committing you unto the Lord and to the guidance of his holy Word I rest Yours to serve you in the Service of our dear Saviour John Eliot Roxbury this 10 th of the 10 th 1658. Here followeth a Briefe Epitomy of such Exhortations as these Indians hereafter named did deliver upon a late day of fasting and prayer at Natick much more largely 15 th of the 9 th month 1658. The causes of this fast were partly in preparation for gathering a Church and because of much rain and sicknesse and other tryalls An Exhortation from Waban an Indian The Text of Scripture he spake of was Matth. 9. 12 13. 12. But when Iesus heard that he said unto them They that be whole need not a Physitian but they that are sick 13. But goe ye and learne what that meaneth I will have mercy and not sacrifice for I came not to call the righteous but sinners to Repentance I am a poor weak man and know but little and therefore I shall say but little THese words are a similitude that as some be sick and some well and we see in experience that when we be sick we need a Phisitian goe to him and make use of his Phisick but they that be well doe not so they need it not and care not forit So it is with soul-sicknesse and we are all sick of that sicknesse in our souls but we know it not we have many at this time sick in body for which cause we do 〈◊〉 and pray this day and cry to God but more are sick in their souls we have a great many diseases and sicknesses in our souls ●…he instan●…d as Idlenesse neglect of the Sabboth Passion c. Therefore what should we doe this day goe to Christ the Phisitian for Christ is a Physitian of souls he healed mens bodies but he can heale souls also he is a great Physitian therefore let all sinners goe to him Therefore this day know what need we have of Christ and let us goe to Christ to heale us of our sins and he can heale us both soul and body Again what is that lesson which Christ would have us learne that he came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance What! Doth not God love them that be righteous Doth he not call them to him Doth not God love righteousnesse Is not God righteous Answ. The righteous here are not meant those that are truly righteous but those that are Hypocrites that seem righteous and are not that think themselves righteous but are not so indeed such God calleth not neither doth he care for them but such as see their sins and are sick of sin th●… Christ calleth to repentance and to believe in Christ therefore let us see our need of Christ to heale all our diseases of soul and body Delivered at the same time by Nishohkou another Indian The Text he spake of was Gen. 8. 20 21. 20. And Noah built an Altar unto Iehovah and took of every clean Beast and of every clean fowle and offered burnt offerings on the Altar 21. And the Lord smelled a sweet Savour and the Lord said in his heart I will not againe curse the ground any more for mans sake for the imaginations of mans heart is evill from his youth neither will I again smi●…e any more every thing living as I have done A little I shall say according to that little I know IN that Noah sacrificed to God he shewed himself thankfull in that he worshiped God he shewed himselfe godly in that he sacrificed clean beasts he shewed that God is an holy God pure and clean and all that come to God and worship him must be pure and clean and know that we must by repentance purge our selves and cleanse our hearts from all sin which is a work we are to doe this day In that he sacrificed it was the manner of worshiping God in old time but what sacrifices must we offer now Answ. By that Psal. 4. 5. Offer to God the sacrifices of righteousnesse and trust in the Lord. These are true and spirituall sacrifices which God requireth at our hands Sacrifices of Righteousnesse that is we must look to our hearts and Conversation that they be righteous and then we shall be acceptable to God when we worship him but if we be unrighteous and unholy and wicked we shall not be accepted our sacrifices are nought Againe we must trust in the Lord for who else should we trust in we must believe in the word of God for if we doubt of God and doubt of his word then our sacrifices are little worth but if we trust stedfastly in the Lord then our sacrifices are good Again what kind of sacrifices must we offer Answ. We must offer such as Abraham offered and what sacrifice did he offer Answ. see Gen. 22. 12. Now I know that thou fearest