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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39229	A late and further manifestation of the progress of the gospel amongst the Indians in Nevv-England declaring their constant love and zeal to the truth : with a readiness to give accompt of their faith and hope, as of their desires in church communion to be partakers of the ordinances of Christ : being a narrative of the examinations of the Indians, about their knowledge in religion, by the elders of the churches / related by Mr. John Eliot.	Eliot, John, 1604-1690.; Walton, William, d. 1668. Examination of the Indians at Roxbury.; Society for Propagation of the Gospel in New England.	1655 (1655)	Wing E517; ESTC R9453	17,654	32

condition was man made A. Very good like unto God Q. What is the Image of God in man A. Holinesse Wisedome and Righteousnesse Q. Was there then any sin in the soule of man A. No Q. What Covenant did God make wth Adam A. A Covenant of Works Doe this and live thou and thy Children Sin and dye thou and thy Children Q. How many Commandements are there A. Ten Q. What is the first Commandement A. God spake these words and said Thou shalt have no other Gods but me Q. What was the sin of Adam A. He believed the Devil and eat of the Tree in the midst of the Garden of which God commanded him not to eat Q. When Adam sinned what befell him A. He lost the Image of God Q. What is that Image of God which he lost A. Wisedome Holinesse and Righteousnesse Q. To whom is man now like A. He is like unto Satan Q. What is this likenesse to Satan A. He is Unholy Foolish and Unrighteous Q. How many kinds of sin are there A. An evill heart and evill works Q. What doe you call it A. We daily break Gods Commandements and there is the root sin Q. What is the wages of sin A. All miseries in this life and death and damnation Q. Whose wages is death A. All unbelievers Q. Seeing but one man Adam sinned how come all to dye A. Adam deserved for us all that we should dye The Question being put to another for further answer he answered Adam was the first man and father of all men and in him we sinned Q. Who is Iesus Christ A. Christ is God born like man God and man in one person Q. Why was Christ man A. That he might dye Q. Why was Christ God A. That his death might be of great value Q. How many are the Offices of Christ A. Three A Priest a Prophet a King Q. What Sacrifice did Christ offer A. His owne body Q. What hath Christ done for us A. He hath dyed for us Q. What death dyed Christ for us Who put him to death A. Wicked men Q. What else hath Christ done for us A. He hath kept all the Commandements of God for us and also dyed for us Q. What hath Christ deserved or merited for us A. Pardon of sin and eternall life Q. The same Question was asked another What hath Christ merited A. Pardon of all our sins because he paid a ransome the favour of God and Eternall life Q. What else hath Christ done for us A. He rose again and ascended into Heaven Q. What doth Christ in heaven for us A. He appeareth for us before God he prayeth for us and giveth us the New Covenant Q. What is the New Covenant A. The Covenant of Grace Repent and believe in Christ and be saved Q. Shall all men be saved by Iesus Christ A. All that believe in Christ shall goe to heaven and be saved Q. Why doth thy heart desire Iesus Christ more then sin and thy former Idolls A. Before we prayed to God I did not desire Jesus Christ I did desire my sins but now I see my need of Jesus Christ Q. Why doe you need Christ A. When I dye Christ carrieth my soule to heaven The same put to another for further answer he answered We need Jesus Christ because we are full of sinne Q. How doth Christ work Grace in our hearts A. I beleive Christ hath sent his Spirit into my heart by his word Q. What is repentance for sinne A. I am ashamed of my selfe and broken is my heart I hate and am aware of all sin Q. What most of all breaks your heart why is your heart broken A. Because I have sinned against God Q. What see you in sin that breaks your heart A. It is not my owne work but Christ sends his Spirit and breaks my heart Q. What doth he put into your heart that causeth your heart to break A. The Spirit Q. What wounds your heart most because you sin or because you must goe to hell A. Because we must goe to hell Q. When you heare that Adam by his sin deserved eternall death and when you hear of the grace of God sending Iesus to save you which of these break your heart m●st A. Pardon of sin goeth deepest Q. What worke of the Spirit finde you in your heart A. The Spirit of God breaketh my heart to repent of all my sin and turneth me from sin to believe in Jesus Christ Q. Whether have you found at any time any such worke in your selfe A. I am ashamed of my selfe I doe not throughly find it in my heart to be so Q. When God sendeth his Spirit what doth it worke in us A. A change of the heart Q. What change hath God wrought in you of late which was not in you in former times A. The Spirit turneth us from our sins to believe in Jesus Christ Q. Doe you finde this in your heart that your heart is turned from your sins A. I find my heart turned I leave my stealing lying lust and now my heart believeth in Jesus Christ Q. Doe you believe in Iesus Christ A. I doe believe in Jesus Christ Q. What is it to believe in Iesus Christ A. I confesse I deserve to be damned and am not able to deliver my selfe and therefore I doe give up my selfe unto Jesus Christ and trust in him casting away my sins Q. Why doe you cast away your sins A. They make me that I cannot love Jesus Christ Q. Is there any Promise set home on your heart that comforteth you what Promise doe you remember A. I believe the Promise of God that he will pardon believers in Jesus Christ So far they proceeded in Questions and Answers Some or other of the Elders did severall times publickly call upon the Interpreters to be attentive to all things that passed because they must relye upon their testimony or to that purpose praying them to speak if they doubted of any thing In the conclusion the Elders saw good to call upon the Interpreters to give a publick testimony to the truth of Mr. Eliets Interpretations of the Indians Answers which Mr. Mahu and the two Interpreters by him did all speaking one after another to this purpose That the Interpretations which Mr. Eliot gave of their Answers was for the substance the same which the Indians answered many times the very words which they spake and alwayes the sense WILLIAM WALTON WHen the day was well spent in this above-written manner some that were aged desired that an end might be put unto this work for this time because by this tast which they had they saw that which gave them comfortable satisfaction Then I desired that if it might be without prejudice to any they might be further tryed with Questions about Christ and grace wrought in us by the Spirit and about the Ordinances of Christ concerning which no Questions had been yet propounded and also about the estate of man after death of the resurrection of

day will be too little if the Lord please to call them on to Church-fellowship to examine them in points of Knowledge and hear their Confessions and guide them into the holy Covenant of the Lord Seeing all these things are to be transacted in a strange language and by Interpreters and with such a people as they be in these their first beginnings But if they would spend a day on purpose to examine them in their knowledge there would be so much the more liberty to doe it fully and throughly as such a work ought to be as also when they may be called to gather into Church-Communion it may suffice that some one of them should make a Doctrinall Confession before the Lord and his people as the rule of faith which they build upon the rest attesting their consent unto the same And themselves the Elders I mean if the Lord so far assist the Indians as to give them satisfaction might testifie that upon Examination they have found a competency of knowledge in them to inable them unto such a work and state And thus the work might be much shortned and more comfortably expedited in one day I found no unreadinesse in the Elders to further this work Some dispute there was about Officers in the Church if they should be found fit matter to proceed of which I shall anon speak God-willing They concluded to attend the work and for severall Reasons advised that the place should be at Roxbury and not at Natick and that the Indians should be called thither the time they left to me to appoint in such a season as wherein the Elders may be at best liberty from other publick occasions The time appointed was the 13 of the 4 moneth mean while I dispatched Letters unto such as had knowledge in the Tongue requesting that they would come and help in Interpretation or attest unto the truth of my Interpretations I sent also for my Brother Mayhu who accordingly came and brought an Interpreter with him Others whom I had desired came not I informed the Indians of this appointment and of the end it was appointed for which they therefore called and still doe when they have occasion to speak of it Natootomuhteáe kesuk A day of asking Questions or A day of Examination I advised them to prepare for it and to pray earnestly about it that they might be accepted among Gods people if it were the will of God It pleased God so to guide that there was a publick Fast of all the Churches betwixt this our appointment and the accomplishment thereof which day they kept as the Churches did and this businesse of theirs was a Principall matter in their Prayers It hath pleased God to lay his hand in sicknesse upon Monequassun our Natick Schoolmaster so that we greatly wanted his help and concurrence in this businesse Yea and such is his disease viz. an Vlcer in his Lungs that I fear the Lord will take him away from us to the great hindrance of our work in respect of humane means Lord increase our faith There fell out a very great discouragement a little before the time which might have been a scandall unto them and I doubt not but Satan intended it so but the Lord improved it to stir up faith and Prayer and so turned it another way Thus it was Three of the unsound sort of such as are among them that pray unto God who are hemmed in by Relations and other means to doe that which their hearts love not and whose Vices Satan improveth to scandalize and reproach the better sort withall while many and some good People are too ready to say they are all alike I say three of them had gotten severall quarts of Strong-water which sundry out of a greedy desire of a little gaine are too ready to sell unto them to the offence and grief of the better sort of Indians and of the godly English too and with these liquors did not onely make themselves drunk but got a Child of eleven years of age the Son of Toteswamp whom his Father had sent for a little Corne and Fish to that place near Watertowne where they were Unto this Child they first gave too spoonfulls of Strong-water which was more then his head could bear and another of them put a Bottle or such like Vessell to his mouth and caused him to drink till he was very drunk and then one of them domineered and said Now we will see whether your father will punish us for Drunkennesse for he is a Ruler among them seeing you are drunk with us for company and in this case lay the Child abroad all night They also fought and had been severall times Punished formerly for Drunkennesse When Toteswamp heard of this it was a great shame and breaking of heart unto him and he knew not what to doe The rest of the Rulers with him considered of the matter they found a complication of many sins together 1 The sin of Drunkennesse and that after many former Punishments for the same 2 A willfull making of the Child drunk and exposing him to danger also 3 A degree of reproaching the Rulers 4 Fighting Word was brought to me of it a little before I took Horse to goe to Natick to keep the Sabbath with them being about ten dayes before the appointed Meeting The Tidings sunk my spirit extreamly I did judge it to be the greatest frowne of God that ever I met withall in the work I could read nothing in it but displeasure I began to doubt about our intended work I knew not what to doe the blacknesse of the sins and the Persons reflected on made my very heart faile me For one of the offendors though least in the offence was he that hath been my Interpreter whom I have used in Translating a good part of the Holy Scriptures and in that respect I saw much of Satans venome and in God I saw displeasure For this and some other acts of Apostacy at this time I had thoughts of casting him off from that work yet now the Lord hath found a way to humble him But his Apostacy at this time was a great Tryall and I did lay him by for that day of our Examination I used another in his room Thus Satan aimed at me in this their miscarrying and Toteswamp is a Principall man in the work as you shall have occasion to see anon God-willing By some occasion our Ruling Elder and I being together I opened the case unto him and the Lord guided him to speak some gracious words of encouragement unto me by which the Lord did relieve my spirit and so I committed the matter and issue unto the Lord to doe what pleased him and in so doing my soul was quiet in the Lord I went on my journey being the 6 day of the week when I came at Natick the Rulers had then a Court about it Soon after I came there the Rulers came to me with a Question about this matter