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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

unthankfull generation and the evill day to rest from their labours that their workes may follow them and of judgement because the selfe conceited pride and partiality of the wise and prudent of this world shall be judged and condemned by the worke of his spirit when he shall bring all the effects thereof together to make out his compleate designe against the world and by the conjunction of the seemingly scattered parts which his servants have acted upon their stages produce the new frame of a perfect Scene the catastrophe whereof shall make up a building fit for the kingdom of his Son I am fallen upon these thoughts and acquaint you thus with them partly to support mine owne spirit against the contradictions which I meet withall in the way wherein God hath set me for the constant prosecution of peace and truth without partiality amongst my brethren partly to apologize for the drift of your spirit whereby I perceive you have been led these many yeares in some of your studies for it is very evident to me that you have sought after a matter which to most men will seem incredible rediculous and extravagant and to tell you the truth before I had read your discourse and seriously weighed matters when I thought upon your theme that the Americans should be of the seed of Israell it seemed to me some what strange and unlikely to have any truth in it but afterward when I had weighed your deduction of the matter and lookt seriously upon Gods hand in bringing into those parts of the World where the Americans are so many religious professors zealous for the advancement of his glory and who are possessed with a beliefe from the Scriptures that all the Tribes of Israell shall be called to the knowledge of Jesus Christ before the the end of the world and when I had recollected and laid together some other scattered and confused thoughts which at several times I have received partly from the places of Scripture which foretell the calling of the Jewes and their restitution to their owne land together with the bringing back of the ten Tribes from all the ends and corners of the earth partly from some relations which I had heard a few yeeres agoe concerning the ten Tribes which the Jewes here in Europe had given out and partly from the observations of Gods way which he seemes to make by all these changes and the dissolution of the States and Empires of the world towards some great worke and extraordinary revolution which may shortly come to passe all which things when I had called to mind and represented unto my selfe I was so far from derogating any thing from that which you have conjectured concerning the American Indians that I beganne to stand amazed at the appearances of the probabilities which so many waies offered themselves unto me to make out and confirme the effect of that which you have said And then I begun also upon another account to wonder at the strangenesse of Gods conduct over your spirit that he should have set you a worke twelve or more yeeres agoe after the search of such a matter by historicall observations whereof then so few and almost no footsteps at all were extant to be traced and whereof now of a suddaine the world is like to be filled with such evidences that it wil be an astonishment to all that shall heare of it and lay it to heart and that all who have any ingenuity will be constrained to confesse that indeed there is a God who ruleth in the earth and that he hath ordered the affaires of the Nations by an universal providence to bring to passe his own counsels and that the things which hee hath revealed by his word should in the latter times be accomplished for to my apprehension this will be the great benefit of these discoveries namely that the mouths of Atheists will be stopped and convicted of irrationality and foolishnesse For when it shall appear to all men undeniably that the transmigration of Nations and the affaires of this world have not been carried hitherto by meere chance or by the craftinesse of humane counsels or by force but by the wisdome of a Supreame conduct who hath ordered all things from the beginning towards an end which hath been foreknown and to a designe foretold I say when this shall appeare and that in the midst of all these changes and confusions there is a conduct over-ruling the force of man and disappointing the councels of the crafty then the eyes of all men will be upon the Lord and God alone will bee exalted in righteousnesse and the Holy one of Israell in judgement For seeing it is evident that the ten Tribes of Israell have been as it were lost in the world neare about the space of two thuusand yeeres if now they should againe appeare upon the stage first as it were in another world by themselves and then afterward speedily come from thence hither to the land of their ancient inheritance where they shall be joyned to their brethren the Jews which is clearly foretold by the Prophets shall come to passe if I say those things should now begin to come to passe what can all the world say otherwise but that the Lords counsell doth stand and that he hath fulfilled the words spoken by his Servants the Prophets concerning Israel that although all the sinfull kingdoms of the Nations shall be destroyed from off the face of the earth yet that the house of Iacob shall not be utterly destroyed but shall be corrected in measure for loe I will command saith God by the Prophet and I will sift the house of Israell among all Nations like as corne is sifted in the sieve yet shall not the least graine fall upon the earth These Prophecies must needs be fulfilled if there be a God in heaven who hath foretold them and when he shall make this his word good unto Israell he will thereby make it undeniably apparent that it was he himselfe and none other who did foretell it and that it is also none but hee who brings the worke about beyond all humane appearances according as he did foretell it and by all this he will shew to all the world that which he oft-times repeates by the Prophet Isaiah that he alone is the Saviour and that there is none besides him Isa. 45. 5 6 15. till the end The destruction then of the spirituall Babylon by the restauration of Israel shall make out this to all the earth that God alone is the Lord over all and the Saviour of the people that put their trust in his name Now the appearances which offer themselves unto me that these Prophecies are towards their accomplishment are many which now I shall not insist upon perhaps God will direct me to declare them in due season more fully then now I can intend but I shall onely mention that which I find to be a confirmation of your conjecture leaving it

he said of the differences in his time Tragaediae Lutheranae mihi ipsi etiam calculo molestiores and who laments not the wofull tearings of our Nation who bewailes not to see the breakings of the sheepfold who mournes not to heare the strange bleeting of the flocks and what soule is not grieved for the great divisions of England and let me wish once more Oh that all who love the Lord Jesus in sincerity would study to speake the same things and that all would be perfectly joyned together in the same minde and in the same judgement 1 Cor. 1. 10. converting all their tongue-combats and pen-contentions into an earnest contending that the faith once delivered to the Saints Iud. 3. might be preserved whole holy and entire among themselves and be with like holinesse and integrity communicated to the Indians that doe now so much hunger and thirst after that righteousnesse of our most deare Lord and Master Christ let us all with our tongues purses pens counsels and prayers promote this worke of God with one shoulder and consent there be among us here that have had this in their daily devotions more then twenty yeares which is mentioned to no other end but from desire to call in thy helpe also I will take leave by comm●…nding to thy practice the imitation of learned and holy Theod. Beza in his daily prayer for the Iewes Lord Iesus thou dost justly avenge the contempt of thy selfe and that ingratefull people is worthy of thy most severe indignation but Lord remember thy covenant and for thy names sake ●…e favourable to those miserable wretches and to us the most unworthy of all men unto whom thou hast vouchsafed thy mercy bestow this goodnesse also that we may grow in thy grace that we be not instruments of thy wrath against them but rather both by the knowledg of thy word and by the examples of holy life we may by the assistance and vertue of thy holy Spirit reduce them into the right way that thou maist once be glorified of all Nations and people for ever Amen IEWES IN AMERICA OR Probabilities that the Americans be Iewes From Part. 1. Generall Introduction Chap. 1. Six severall conjectures 1. Conjecture Their own acknowledgement Ch. 2. 2. Rites and customes in both alike Common ceremonies such Chap. 3. and solemn Ch. 4. 3. Their words and manner of speech as the Iewes Chap. 5. 4. Their man-devouring Ch. 6. 5. They have not yet been Gospellized Ch. 7. 6. Their calamities as 28. Deut. Ch. 8. Part 2. Some contrary reasonings removed 1. In the Generall Ch. 1. 2. Particularly How 1. The Jewes should get into America Chap. 1. 2. So few empeople that great part of the world Ch. 3. 3. Become so prodigiously barbarous Chap. 4. Part. 3. Earnest desires for hearty endeavours to make them Christian. 1. To the Planters 1. Cause of their removall Chap. 1. 2. Hope of the Natives Conversion Chap. 2. 3. Directions to it Chap. 3. 4. Cautions about it Chap. 4. 2. To the English there 1. In behalfe of the Planters aspersions wiped off Chap. 5. 6. 2. Towards the Natives conversion 1. Motives Chap. 7. 2. Help●… Chap. 8. 3. Encouragements from our Countrymens plous endeavours there Ch. 9. 4. And the success●… thereof upon the Indians Ch. 10. An Epistolicall Discourse Of Mr. IOHN DURY TO Mr. THOROWGOOD Concerning his conjecture that the Americans are descended from the Israelites With the History of a Portugall Iew Antonie Monterinos attested by Manasseh Ben Israel to the same effect SIR I Am bound to thank you for the communication of your booke which I have read with a great deale of delight and satisfaction for the rarity of the subject and the variety of your observations thereupon which you have deduced with as much probability to make out your theme as History can afford matter I did shew it to another friend of great judgement and ingenuity who was so taken with it that he said he would have it to be coppied out at his cost if you would not publish it to the world which hee and I have resolved to imp●…rtune you to doe for although at first blush the thing which you offer to be believed will seeme to most men incredible and extravigant yet when all things are laid rationally and without prejudice together there will be nothing of improbability found therein which will not be swallowed up with the appearance of contrary likelyhoods of things possible and la●…ely attested by some to be truths whereof to confirme your probable conjectures I shall give you that information which is come to my hands at severall times in these late yeares which you if you shall thinke fit may publish to the world as I have received them which to the probability of your conjectures adde so much light that if the things which I shall relate be not meere fictions which I assure you are none of mine for you shall have them without any addition as I have received them none can make any further scruple of the truth of your assertion but before I come to particulars I shall tell you of some thoughts which are come upon this occasion into my minde concerning Gods way of dealing with mens spirits for the manifestation of his truth and wisdome to those that seeke after it and concerning the wonderfull contrivances by which he brings his counsell to passe beyond all mens thoughts I have observed and every one that will take notice must needs perceive that the spirits of men in reference to spiritual matters whether divine or humane by humane I meane all matters of science and industry depending upon judgement and sagacity are distinguishable into two kinds the one are stedfast to some principles and the other are unstable this distinction in divine matters is clear from 2 Pet. 3. 17. Iude ver 3 4 6 12 13 17 18 20 21. and in humane matters wee need none other proofe but daily experience Againe these that are stedfast to their principles will be found of two sorts some are led in an ordinary common way and rest therein admitting of nothing further then what they have attained unto some though they doe not undervalue the ordinary waies which in their owne kinds are usefull and necessary yet they aspire to something more then ordinary and rest not where they are they believe that both in humane and divine matters there is as long as we are in this life a plus ultra and that we never ought to rest in seeking after the advancement of learning and the increase of knowledge till wee shall come to see the Father of lights face ro face the different inclinations of these three sorts of men in the world leading them to different courses and straines in their proceedings and these begetting divers encounters amongst them wherein they disagree and know not how to right matters towards one another for mutuall content and edification are the causes of all our strife

in Alcair some in Persia and some in other places of Asia and of Africa but Mr Ritangle told me that their chiefe bodie is amongst the Asiatique and European Tartarians who now appeare upon the stage as beginning to be conquerers For besides that which they doe fully possesse in China they have tasted somewhat of a victorious progresse of late in Poland and they are the next pretenders to the Ottoman Crowne if the line faile which is like to be their rising and dissipation abroad from their owne centers to their circumferences towards neighbour Nations will weaken them at home and if then when they are not strong within their owne bounds and by their invasions have weakened their neighbours Southward on God call the ten Tribes to march toward the place of their inheritance the Caraits their brethren will be leaders of them on their way and so their march may be as Manasseh Ben Israel saith to make their Rendezvous in Assyria and on the other side the Jewes that are Pharisees may make their Rendezvous from Arabia and other neighbouring places and out of all Europe into Egypt that so when the Shunamite shall returne as it is said in the Canticles chap. 6. ver 13. the world may looke upon her and may see in her the company of two Armies which both shall look towards Ierusalem Then will the great battaile of Harmageddon be fought whereunto all these troubles and changes are but preparatives then shall the sword of the Spirit the word of God prevaile mightily over the spirits of all men the two edges thereof on the right hand and on the left will cut sharpe and pierce to the dividing asunder of soule and spirit and of the joynts and marrow and to the discerning of the thoughts and intentions of the heart and when this sword shall be thus powerfull in the hands of his Saints the true Protestants with the one troope and the true Caraits with the other then shall be fulfilled the Prophecie of the Psalmist that vengeance shall be executed upon the Heathen and punishments upon the people that their Kings shall be bound with chaines and their Nobles with fetters of iron and that the honour due to all Saints shall be given them to be made executioners of the judgement written in the word of God against them We know not how neare these things are at hand let us therefore be watchfull and put on the armour of light to be ready when the Bridegroome comes to goe with him in our wedding garment having our lamps burning and provision of oile into the wedding chamber And to this effect the Lord teach us to be diligent to be found of him in peace without spot and blamelesse that in the midst of these fightings and confusions we may not be found as many are smiting their fellow servants eating and drinking largely of the spoile of those that are spoiled and being drunken with the passions of malice entertained for the revenge of injuries or of covetousnesse and ambition prosecuted for self-interests and with this prayer I shall commend you to the grace of God and rest St Iames this 27 Ian. 1649. 50. Your faithfull friend and fellow labourer in the Gospel of Christ. J. DURY Ievves in America OR Probabilities that the Americans are Iewes CHAP. I. IT hath been much and many times in severall mens thoughts what Genius devoted our Countreymen so willingly to forsake their Friends and Nation exposing themselves by voyages long and perillous to so many inconveniences as are to be encountred with by Strangers in a forraigne and unchristian land some were hastened by their dislike of Church Government other perhaps were in hope to enrich themselves by such Adventures and 't is like divers of them did foresee those Epidemicall Calamities now for so many years oppressing this forlorne Nation following thereupon Solomons Counsell A prudent man foreseeth the evill and hideth himselfe c. Prov. 22. 5. Or else those pious soules by a divine instinct might happily bee stirred up to despise all hazards that the Natives for their temporall accommodations might bee spiritually enriched by the English and though this was little seen at first in the endeavours at least the successe of many gone thither yet who can tell but supreme Providence might then dispose mens hearts that way themselves not discerning that influence even as Cyrus promoted the cause of the Jewes he knew not why nor whence Esa. 45. 4 5. Upon confidence that the Gospell of Christ shall be revealed in the midst of that yet most Barbarous Nation the next desire was if possible to learne the Originall of the Americans and by observations from Printed Books and written Letters and by Discourse with some that had travelled to and abode in those parts severall years the probability of that opinion as yet praeponderates that the Westerne Indians be of Jewish race R. Verstegan proves the Saxons to be Germans because their speech is alike the names of persons and things sometimes agree and the Idols of them both are not different Bo●…ine mentioneth 3. Arguments by which the beginnings of People are discoverable the faire and true dealing of Historians the comparing of Language with the description of the Countrey such helps have assisted also in this enquiry Grotius conceiveth these Americans to have come out of Europe passing from Norway into Iseland thence by Friesland into Greenland and so into Estotiland which is part of that Western Continent hee is induced to that opinion from the names and words of places and things in both sounding alike but Io. de L●…et abundantly disproves this Conjecture which yet the Governor of the Dutch Plantation there told Mr. Williams was his judgement Some others take them to be a remnant of those Canaanites that fled out of that Land when the feare of Israel approaching thither fell upon them Iosh. 2. 9. Others thinke it most probable that they are Tartars passing out of Asia into America by the straights of Anian Emanuel de Moraes willingly believes them to be derived from the Carthaginians and Jewes from which latter that they be descended these following Conjectures are propounded to Consideration CHAP. II. The first Conjecture that the Americans are Iewes THE Indians doe themselves relate things of their Ancestors suteable to what we read of the Jewes in the Bible and elsewhere which they also mentioned to the Spaniards at their first accesse thither and here the Speech of My●…silus occurred as observable if we would know saith hee the Antiquity and Originall of a Nation there is more credit to be given to the Natives and their Neighbors than to strangers and Caesar concluded the Britons to be Gaules because that was the affirmation of them both P. Martyr tells at large how Muteczuma the great King of Mexico in an Oration made to his Nobles and People perswading subjection to the King of Spaine

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