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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

Plantations in the remote parts of the World 2. This worke would be much prospered by a stocke of wise and constant correspondence mutually betwixt Old and New England in regard of this businesse what progresse is made in the worke what meet to bee done for its furtherance c. Such communication of counsells would marvelously encourage and quicken the Americans conversion The French were spoiled of this help and intercourse from Brasil by the Governour Villagagno's Apostacy to Popery and t is not credible but if the poore Indians were made to understand that all the Nation of England were thus solicitous with God and among themselves in all industrious endeavours to recover them from their sinfull and lost condition by nature but they would looke up also and in earnest cooperate with them and say also it may be as was in the precedent Chapter mentioned of our Saxon King who said those Preachers should be kindly dealt with and want nothing for their worke yea somewhat like to this was long since spoken of by Colonchi one of the Princes of Peru when he was invited to be a Christian his answer was Sir I am old and unfit to forsake the rites and lawes of my Ancestors but take my children as you will and teach them what you please they are young and can more easily apply themselves to your customes and instructions 3. And a stock of money must be remembred which in some sense is as it were the soule of this worke the Poet said truly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 If wee meane the Indians shall be Gospellized they must first be civilized who are yet a very wild Olive both by nature and life they must bee weaned from idlenesse and hunting and nakednesse they must be perswaded to labour planting learning arts and manufacture that they may get cloathing they must be taught to build for their owne habitations for meeting houses or Churches on the Lords dayes Schooles must be erected for instruction of their youth at other times books of all kinds tooles and instruments of all sorts must be provided many and necessary materialls towards this structure may be easily mentioned but are not so easily purchased If our Countrey men there have for their owne comfort and subsistance t is little lesse then a miracle all things considered and a wonderfull mercy it cannot be expected that they should be able to adde considerable supplie towards all the forenamed particulars and other emergent needfull occasions though there be that can beare them record that to their power yea and beyond their power they are willing of themselves as the Apostle said of his Macedonians 2 Cor. 8. 3. I crave leave therefore to pray every Christian reader with much entreaty to take upon him the fellowship of ministring to this worke that you may abound in this grace also that I may use to you the same holy Apostles words Chrysostome desirous to plant the Gospel in Phaenicia stirred up many godly men and devout women by their liberality to contribute towards those endeavours Yea and here let it be remembred that as Gregory commends Queen Brunechild of France and Queen Adilberga of Kent for their charitable furtherance of this worke the gaining of soules the first Gospellizing of our Saxon Ancestors So some pious Christians among us of both sexes have shewed much bounty this way encouraging and exampling others The Spanish bookes relate strange things of their zeale in this kinde and one whom wee may credit tells us that America hath foure Arch-Bishops thirty Bishops and many other houses as they call them of Religion and if it be said their lot fell into the golden part of that world and out of their superfluities they might well spare very much t is very much indeed and yet t is somewhat more that the same writer observeth how the King of Spaine maintaines the lists and bonds of Missionaries Priests Fryers and Jesuits that are continually transported into America hee provides for every of them ten yeeres and that to this day and shall the children of this world in this also be wiser then the children of light Luk. 16. 8. shall they be enlarged for the promoting of themselves and their abominable superstitions and shall not wee be as forward in that which directly aimes at the glory of Christ and the good of souls as St. Paul saith of his Thessalonians that they were examples to all that believed in Macedonia and Achaia 1 Thes. 1. 7. I trust the liberality of some will invite and open the hands of many to be very forward in this worke for the administration of this service will not onely supply their wants but will be abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God 2 Cor. 9. 12. And I hope to heare once of a liberall collection and benevolence to be advanced in every Parish and Congregation of the land to be put into safe hands and such profitable employment as may indeed further the reering up of a Christian Tabernacle in America And while these papers were thus in their framing an Act before mentioned for propagating the Gospell of Iesus Christ in New England declareth much forwardnesse towards a nationall contribution in reference to this worke and the disposall thereof to be according to the desires of those that have bin most industrious that way and good care I trust will be taken that the monies run into the right channel and for the better gale and conduct the two Universities Cambridge Oxford have affectionately expressed their Christian longings that this soule-businesse may obtain all possible furtherance in their Letters to their Reverend and deare Brethren the Ministers of the Gospell in England and Wales the Divines of London are desired also in their sphere cordially to act in this common cause of the Gospel that no obstruction be left in the way of this most glorious endeavour why should any then bee straightned in their owne bowells why should not all learne willingnesse to this worke by reading considering and practising what we find the old Jewes did in a like case Exod. 35. CHAP. IX The Novangles religious care to advance Piety and Learning IT hath been laid and left at the doores of those whom some call Independents here in this England that they have shewed little love to others going astray and that their zeale hath been wanting against those blasphemies and heresies that have manifestly dishonoured the most sweet and holy name of God Father Son and Spirit Our booke tells us of a good man in former times when hee was accused of lust pride c. He said I confesse I am a sinner and I beseech you pray for me but when they laid heresie to his charge his heart was hot within him his zeale was inflamed and hee said Haereticus non sum hoc vitium nulla patientia possum aut volo dissimulare hoeresis enim separat hominem a Deo adsocrat

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

never saw one man drunke nor ever heard of three women adulteresses if these sinnes be among us privily the Lord heale us I would not be understood to boast of our innocency there is no cause I should our hearts may be bad enough and our lives much better And yet they have more abundantly testified their pious integrity in serious endeavours to propogate Gospel-holinesse even to those that be without their godly labours Christianizing the Natives must be remembred to their praise they have had long and longing preparative thoughts and purposes that way and as Saint Paul once to his Corinthians 2. 6. 11. they have seemed to say O Americans our mouth is opened unto you our heart is enlarged you are not straightned in us be not straightned in your owne bowels and now for a recompence of all our endeavours to preach Christ unto you we aske no more but be ye also enlarged with gladnesse to receive the Lord Iesus Christ their active industry in this kind with the successe is now famously visible in severall discourses which whosoever shall read will be sufficiently contented in his spirituall and outward well-wishings to his friends both of this Nation and the Natives for the Gospel runs there and is glorified and here I crave leave to speake a word or two to the Military Reader the late English American traveller dedicating his observations upon his journeys of three thousand three hundred miles within the maine Land of America to the Lord Fairefax speakes knowingly to his Excellency that with the same paines and charge that the English have been at in planting one of the petty Islands they might have conquered so many great Cities and large territories on the Continent as might very well merit the title of a Kingdom he shewes further that the Natives have not onely just right to the Land and may transferre it to whom they please but that it may easily be wonne from the Spaniards and that for these three reasons among the rest 1. The Spaniards themselves are but few and thinne 2. The Indians and Blackamoores will turne against them and so will 3. The Criolians that is the Spaniards borne in America whom they will not suffer to boare office in Church or state Looke Westward then yee men of Warre thence you may behold a rising Sunne of glory with riches and much honour and not onely for your selves but for Christ whom you say you desire above all and are delighted to honour In youder Countries that the following leaves speake of non cedunt arma togae the pen yeelds to the pike the first place of honour is given to the profession of armes and therefore in Mexico the Noblemen were the chiefe souldiers thus you may enlarge not onely your owne renowne but the borders of the Nation yea the Kingdome of the King of Saints We have all made covenants and professions of reformation at home with promises to propagate the Gospell of our deare Lord among those that remaine in great and miserable blindnesse how happy were it for them and us if this England were in such a posture of holinesse and tranquility that all opportunities might be imbraced to advance its territories abroad In the interim I could wish with the most passionate and compassionate of all the holy Prophets Oh that my head were waters and mine eyes a fountaine of teares that I might weep day and night for the sinnes and for the slaine of the daughter of my people Oh that I had in the wildernesse c. Ier. 9. 1. 2. Our Countrey is justly called our mother whose heavy gr●…anes under multiplied miseries be heard from all places whose bowels doe not sympathizs with her and yerne over her who is not unwilling or ashamed to gather riches or honour from her rents and ruine the Heathen Orator spake affectionately our parents are dear to us and so be our children alliances and familiars but the love of our countrey comprehends in it and with it all other dearnesses whatsoever and in another place Omnes qui patriam conserverunt adjuverunt auxerunt certum est esse in caelo t is certaine they are all in heaven that have been lovers and conservators of their Countrey and when heathenish Babylon was the place of Israels exile they are commanded by God himselfe to seeke the peace of the City whether they were carried and pray unto the Lord for it Ier. 29. 7. It is recorded to the honour of Mordecai that he sought the wealth of his people Esth. 10. 3. the contrary to this entailes ignominy to men and their posterity by the book of Gods own heraldry Esa. 14. 20. Thou shalt not be joyned with them in buriall because thou hast destroyed thy land and slaine thy people the seed of evill doers shall never be renowned for that Iudge judged righteously In a civill warre there is no true victory in asmuch as he that prevaileth is also a loser But I returne and reinvite to peruse these probabilities and if they like not because they are no more but guesses and conjectures yet the requests I hope shall be listened unto for they aime at Gods glory and mans salvation and nothing else and surely the poore Natives will not be a little encouraged to looke after the glorious Gospel of Christ when they shall understand that not onely the English among them but wee all here are daily sutors for them at the throne of grace so that we may say as Paul to the Romans 1. 9. God is our witnesse whom wee serve with our spirit in the Gospel of his Sonne that without ceasing wee make mention of them alwaies in our prayers Mr. Elliot whose praise is now through all our Churches 2 Cor. 8. 18. deserves publique encouragement from hence besides those sprinklings of an Apostal●…eall spirit received from heaven by which in an high and holy ambition he preacheth the Gospell where Christ had not been named Rom. 15. 20. such another 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 like-minded soule-lover is not readily to be found that naturally careth for their matters Phil. 2. ●…0 regarding the Indians as if they were his owne charge and children and as God hath furnished him with ministeriall and spirituall abilities for the worke I wish that he and his com-Presbyters and companions in that labour might be supplyed with all externall accommodations to further the civilizing and Gospellizing of the Americans And now me thinks I heare thee say also Oh that the day-breaking of the Gospel there might be the way of Saints even the path of the just as the shining light that shineth more and 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

in her bosome and sucked it from her breasts c. From South-Hampton Iohn Winthrop Governour Rich S●…ltonstall Tho Dudly c. CHAP. VI. THere is another injaculation that hath gone current among many that the Puritane of old and New-England is Antimonarchicall the former is sufficiently cleared by that Bishop who hath left this testimony Presbyterio lis est cum Episcopis cum Rege nulla est or if that be not enough King Iames in this is an irrefragable Assertor The Puritans do not decline the oath of Supremacy but daily take it never refused it and the same supremacy is defended by Calvin himselfe And in New-England Mr. Williams seemed in other things to be extravagant yet thus he writes to this point For the Government of the Common-wealth from the King as supreme to the inferiour and subordinate Magistrates my heart is on them as once Deborah spake and as the Governours and assistants doe themselves take the oath of Allegiance so they have power by their Charter to give the same to all that shall at any time passe to them or inhabite with them But Tempora mutantur and it may be t is with them as with us nos mutamur in illis And t is further said that their Ecclesiastique government is not onely opposite to the ancient Episcopacy of the land but to the discipline of the other Reformed Churches even that which the Covenant calleth for it may be worth our consideration that as there was a time when forraigners reformed were not so opposite to our Bishops but those Divines thought well of them willingly gave to them Titles of Reverend Fathers and Illustrious Lords and in their publique convenings spake of that Government with good respect and the valedictory Epistle of Mr. Cotton to the then Bishop of Lincoln full of respective expressions is yet to be seen So the Bishops then were not such Antipresbyterians Caecus sit saith Bishop Andrewes to P. Moulin a Presbyter qui non videat stantes sine ea Ecclesias ferreus sit qui salutem eis n●…get nos non sumus illi ferrei Let him be blind that seeth not Churches consistent without such an Hierarchy let him be accounted iron-hearted that shall deny them to be in a way of salvation we are not such iron-hearted men yea and severall reformed Congregations of severall Nations have not onely been tollerated but much refreshed under the Bishops of London Norwich Winchester c. These times have widened all differences every where even among such as are or should be one in covenant how are disaffections increased divisions heightened which have not only wofully abated christian love but miserably augmented iniquities of all sorts many being scrupulously curious about mint and annis having little respect in the meane time to faith righteousnesse and the more weighty things of the law and here may be taken up the lamentation of Erasmus bemoaning himselfe exceedingly that he had in bookes cryed up libertatem spiritus liberty of the spirit which I thinke this age would call liberty of conscience I wished thus saith hee a diminution of humane ceremonies to that end that divine truths and godlinesse might be enlarged Nunc sic excutiunt ut illae ut pro libertate spiritus succedat effraenis carnis licentia and he doth justly call it carnall licenciousnesse for the Spirit of our God Gal. 5. 20. names contentions seditions heresies c. workes of the flesh which being but lately sowne have strangely growne up and multiplyed so that a forraigne penne hath to Englands shame printed it thus to the world Anglia his quatuor annis facta est colluvies lerna omnium errorum ac sectarum nulla à condito orbe provincia tam parvo spatio tot monstrosas haereses protulit atque haec Episcoporum tempora intra sexaginta annos non nisi quatuor sectas protulerunt eas plerunque in obscure latentes c. For I had rather bewaile than reveale the nakednesse of the Nation I had rather stirre up my owne soule and others to piety and peace oh when will men lay aside all bitternesse and wrath and anger and clamour and evill speaking with all malice and instead thereof be kinde one to another tender-hearted forgiving one another as God for Christs sake forgave you Ephes. 4. 32. I wish there were a law to forbid all needlesse disputes I wish that it and those other severall lawes were put in execution impartially so that all men by all meanes were provoked to godlinesse that would preserve from every error for God is faithfull that hath promised If any man will doe the Fathers will he shall know the doctrine whether it be of God Joh. 7. 17. Hearty endeavours for holinesse in our owne persons and those related to us would take away the occasions of many unkind controversies for the Kingdome of God is not meate or drinke this or that government or any such externalls no further then they serve to promote righteousnesse and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost Rom. 14. 17. and this is the best way to shew our obedience unto Christ for hee that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God and approved of men ver 18. When our Countreymen planted themselves first in America the name of Independency was not knowne hee indeed that lately hath wrote of the state of the Churches in England drawes so the scheme that our Novangles are thus become Independents but with the epithete of orthodox Schema sectarum recentium Puritani Presbyteriani Angli Scoti Erastiani sive Colemaniani Independentes sive Congregationales Orthodoxi Novo-Anglici Londinenses Pseudo-Independentes sive Fanatici Anabaptista Quaerentes Antinomi mille alii And for our Novangles it cannot be denyed but many of them well approve the Ecclesiastique government of the Reformed Churches as of old communi Presbyterorum consilio Ecclesiae regibuntur they desire it were so now and some of them in New England are amazed at the manner of our gathering of Churches here thus one writeth that had bin a long time a Pastor among them What more ungodly sacrilege or man-stealing can there be than to purloine from godly Ministers the first borne of their fervent prayers and saithfull preachings the leven of their flocks the encouragement of their soules the crowne of their labours their Epistle to heaven If men will needs gather Churches out of the world as they say let them first plough the world and sow it and reape it with their owne hands the Lord give them a liberall harvest He is a very hard man that will reape where he hath not sowed and gather where he hath not strowed Mat. 24. 25. and if I mistake not such kind of unkind and hard dealing was practised here in England even in popish times what meanes else that Canon among the Saxon Councells Vt sacerdotes aliorum parochianos ad se

was no God because they could not see him some of them replyed they did indeed desire to see him but we had taught them that could not be yet they believed though their eyes could not see him hee was to be seen with their soules within 2. Wee asked if it were not strange to them there should be but one God yet this God should be in Massachusets Conectacut Quimipenik in old England in this Wigwam in the next every where It is strange one of them said as all else is we hear preached yet they thought it might be true that God was so big every where 3. Whether they did not finde something troubling them within after the commission of sinne as murther adultery theft lying c. they confest the trouble but could not tell what to say to it he therefore that first spake to them concluded with a dolefull description as far as his language permitted of the trembling condition of every soule that dies in sinne and shall be cast out of favour from God Having thus spent three houres wee asked them if they were not weary they said no wee resolved to leave them with an appetite the chiefe of them seeing us conclude with prayer desired to know when wee would come againe wee appointed the time gave the children some Apples and the men what was at hand they asked more ground to build a Towne together which wee liked well and promising our furtherance for them at the Generall Court wee departed with many welcomes from them November 11. 1646 Wee came againe to the same Wigwam there was a greater concourse and seats provided for us wee began againe with prayer in English and then catechized the younger sort wee asked them onely three questions in their own language 1. Who made you and all the world 2. Who shall save you from sinne and hell 3. How many commandements hath God given you to keepe The Preacher then proceeded Wee are come to bring you good newes from the great God and to shew how evill men may come to be good and be happy while they live and goe to God when they die then in familiar descriptions hee set forth God to them in his glorious power goodnesse and greatnesse shewing what his will was and what he required even of the Indians in the ten Commandements and how angry God was for any sinne yet that hee sent Christ to die for their transgressions and to pacifie God by suffering in their roome if they did repent and believe the Gospell and that hee would love the poore Indians if now they sought God threatning wrath against all such as stood out and neglected so great salvation c. In hearing these things about sinne and hell and Christ one of them shewed much affliction desiring to conceale his griefe about an houre thus spent wee desired them to propound some questions and the first was by an old man If it were not to late for such an old man as hee to repent and seeke after God which cleared 2. They demanded How the English came to differ so much from the Indians in knowledge seeing at first they had all one father 3. Being satisfied in this also they said How may wee come to serve God which being answered their fourth question was Why the seawater was salt and the land water fresh and their fifth If the water be higher then the earth why did it not overflow it a Philosophicall answer was given to this and they conferred much among themselves about these questions but night hasting wee desired them to proceed thereupon one of them said If a man hath committed adultery or stollen goods and the Sachim doth not punish him and hee restore the goods is not all well will no punishment come from God as if restitution made God amends this answered wee asked two things 1. What doe you remember of that spoken to you the last time wee were here after some speech among themselves one of them said They did much thank God for our comming and the things they heard were wonderfull to them then Secondly wee said Do you believe the things we tell you and that God is Musquantum i. e. very angry for the least sinne in your thoughts or words or works they said yes and we spake further of the terrors of God against sinners and his mercy to the penitent seeking after Christ night being almost come considering the Indians desired to know how to pray and thought that Christ did not understand their language one of us therfore prayed in their tongue above a quarter of an houre divers of them holding up eyes and hands and one of them hung downe his head with his rag before his eyes which when hee had wiped hee held up his head againe yet such was the power of God upon his heart that hee hung downe his head againe covered his eyes wiping them and weeping abundantly till prayer was ended then hee turned to a corner of the Wigwam and wept more by himselfe which one of us perceiving spake encouraging words hee then wept more and more when he came out of the Wigwan wee spake to him againe hee then fell into more abundant weeping like one deepely affected so as wee could not forbeare weeping over him also wee departed greatly rejoycing for such sorrowing And while I am transcribing this I know not whether first to pitty the poore Natives in their spirituall distres or sympathize with the English in their holy compassion or praise God more for discovering to the Indians their lost condition by n●…ture or that hee hath made our Countreymen so industrious in recovering them out of it however I cannot but remind my Reader of the relators observations hereupon at least some of them 1. That none of them slept sermon nor derided Gods Messengers Woe to those English that are growne bold to doe that which Indians will not heathen dare not 2. There is need of learning in Ministers who preach to Indians much more preaching to gracious Christians these had sundry Philosophicall questions which could not have bin answered without some knowledge of the Arts worse than Indian ignorance hath blinded their eyes that renounce learning as an enemy to Gospel minister●…es At a third meeting it did appeare that the Indians notwithstanding discouragements from other Indians did encrease in their desires after the word and propounded more questions What is the meaning of the word Humiliation so often heard of by them in our Churches 2. What a spirit is 3. Whether they should believe dreames 4. How the English know God so much and they so little Being satisfied in this they desire a place for a Town A day or two after Wampas a wise Indian offered his own sonne and three more Indian children to be trained up by us saying they would grow wicked at home and never know God hee with two other young