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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	heart_n	spirit_n	word_n	8,255	5	4.2520	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59662	The Day-breaking, if not the sun-rising of the Gospell with the Indians in New-England	Wilson, John, 1588-1667.; Shepard, Thomas, 1605-1649.; Eliot, John, 1604-1690.	1647 (1647)	Wing S3110; ESTC R21203	20,924	28

used in our Churches and they would know what that meant 3. Why the English call them Indians because before they came they had another name 4. What a Spirit is 5. Whether they should beleeve Dreames 6. How the English come to know God so much and they so little To all which they had fit answers but being not present I shall not set them downe onely their great desire this time was to have a place for a Towne and to learne to spinne Sir I did thinke I should have writ no more to you concerning the Indians but the Ship lingers in the Harbour and the Lord Jesus will have you see more of his conquests and triumphes among these forlorne and degenerate people surely hee heares the prayers of the destitute and that have long lien downe in the dust before God for these poore prisoners of the pit surely some of these American tongues and knees must confesse him and bow downe before him for the Saturday night after this third meeting as I am informed from that man of God who then preached to them there came to his house one Wampas a wise and sage Indian as a messenger sent to him from the rest of the company to offer unto him his owne sonne and three more Indian children to bee trained up among the English one of the children was nine yeares old another eight another five another foure and being demanded why they would have them brought up among the English his answer was because they would grow rude and wicked at home and would never come to know God which they hoped they should doe if they were constantly among the English This Wampas came also accompanied with two more Indians young lusty men who offered themselves voluntarily to the service of the English that by dwelling in some of their families they might come to know Jesus Christ these are two of those three men whom wee saw weeping and whose hearts were smitten at our second meeting above mentioned and continue still much affected and give great hopes these two are accepted of and received into two of the Elders houses but the children are not yet placed out because it is most meet to doe nothing that way too suddainly but they have a promise of acceptance and education of them either in learning or in some other trade of life in time convenient to which Wampas replyed that the Indians desired nothing more These two young men who are thus disposed of being at an Elders house upon the Sabbath day night upon some conference with them one of them began to confesse how wickedly he had lived and with how many Indian women hee had committed filthinesse and therefore professed that hee thought God would never looke upon him in love To which hee had this answer that indeed that sinne of whoredome was exceeding great yet if hee sought God for Christs sake to pardon him and confesse his sinne and repented of it indeed that the Lord would shew him mercy and hereupon acquainted him with the story of Christs conference with the Samaritan woman Iohn 4. and how Jesus Christ forgave her although shee lived in that sinne of filthinesse even when Christ began to speake to her whereupon he fell a weeping and lamenting bitterly and the other young man being present and confessing the like guiltinesse with his fellow hee burst out also into a great mourning wherein both continued for above halfe an houre together at that time also It is wonderfull to see what a little leven and that small mustardseed of the Gospell will doe and how truth will worke when the spirit of Christ hath the setting of it on even upon hearts and spirits most uncapable for the last night after they had heard the word this third time there was an English youth of good capacitie who lodged in Waaubons Wigwam that night upon speciall occasion and hee assured us that the same night Waaubon instructed all his company out of the things which they had heard that day from the Preacher and prayed among them and awaking often that night continually fell to praying and speaking to some or other of the things hee had heard so that this man being a man of gravitie and chiefe prudence and counsell among them although no Sachem is like to bee a meanes of great good to the rest of his company unlesse cowardise or witchery put an end as usually they have done to such hopefull beginnings The old man who askt the first question the second time of our meeting viz. whether there was any hope for such old men or no hath six sonnes one of his sonnes was a Pawwaw and his wife a great Pawwaw and both these God hath convinced of their wickednesse and they resolve to heare the word and seeke to the devill no more This the two Indians who are come to us acquaint us with and that they now say that Chepian i. e. the devill is naught and that God is the author onely of all good as they have been taught Hee therefore who preacheth to the Indians desired them to tell him who were Pawwaws when hee went againe to preach amongst them and upon speciall occasion this Decemb. 4. being called of God to another place where the Indians use to meet and having preacht among them after the Sermon hee that was the Pawwaw of that company was discovered to him to whom hee addressed himselfe and propounded these questions viz. 1. Whether doe you thinke that God or or Chepian is the author of all good he answered God 2. If God bee the author of all good why doe you pray to Chepian the devill The Pawwaw perceiving him to propound the last question with a sterne countenance and unaccustomed terrour hee gave him no answer but spake to other Indians that hee did never hurt any body by his Pawwawing and could not bee got by all the meanes and turnings of questions that might bee to give the least word of answer againe but a little after the conference was ended hee met with this Pawwaw alone and spake more lovingly and curteously to him and askt him why hee would not answer he then told him that his last question struck a terrour into him and made him afraid and promised that at the next meeting hee would propound some question to him as others did And here it may not bee amisse to take notice of what these two Indians have discovered to us concerning these Pawwaws for they were askt how they came to bee made Pawwaws and they answered thus that if any of the Indians fall into any strange dreame wherein Chepian appeares unto them as a serpent then the next day they tell the other Indians of it and for two dayes after the rest of the Indians dance and rejoyce for what they tell them about this Serpent and so they become their Pawwaws Being further askt what doe these Pawwaws and what use are they of and they said the principall