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A66681	The Glorious progress of the Gospel amongst the Indians in New England manifested by three letters under the hand of that famous instrument of the Lord, Mr. John Eliot, and another from Mr. Thomas Mayhew, Jun., both preachers of the word, as well to the English as Indians in New England ... : together with an appendix to the foregoing letters, holding forth conjectures, observations, and applications, by I.D. ... / published by Edward Winslow.	Winslow, Edward, 1595-1655.; I. D., Minister of the Gospell.; Mayhew, Thomas, 1621-1657.; Eliot, John, 1604-1690.	1649 (1649)	Wing W3036; ESTC R12394	24,811	38

THE Glorious Progress OF THE GOSPEL AMONGST THE Indians in New England MANIFESTED By three Letters under the Hand of that famous Instrument of the Lord Mr. JOHN ELIOT And another from Mr. Thomas Mayhew jun both Preachers of the Word as well to the English as Indians in New England WHEREIN The riches of Gods Grace in the effectuall calling of many of them is cleared up As also a manifestation of the hungring desires of many People in sundry parts of that Country after the more full Revelation of the Gospel of Iesus Christ to the exceeding Consolation of every Christian Reader TOGETHER With an Appendix to the foregoing Letters holding forth Conjectures Observations and Applications By I. D. Minister of the Gospell Published by EDWARD WINSLOW Mal. I. II. From the rising of the Sun even unto the going down of the same my Name shall be great among the Gentiles and in every place incence shall be offered unto my Name and a pure Offering for my Name shall be great among the Heathen saith the Lord of Hosts LONDON Printed for Hannah Allen in Popes-head-Alley 1649. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE Parliament of England AND THE COUNCELL OF STATE Right Honourable THat former Narative called The clear Sunshine of the Gospel breaking forth upon the Indians in New England dedicated to your Honours by divers Reverend and eminent Ministers of the Gospell in and about the City of London found such acceptance in your House as it begat a debate amongst your selves how the parliament of England might be serviceable to the Lord Jesus to help forward such a work begun which conduced so abundantly to the glory of God and good of men in the salvation of their soules And in order thereunto your Honours were pleased to refer it to the Committee of forraign plantations to prepare and bring in an Ordinance for the encouragement and advancement of Learning and Piety in New England as appeareth by your Order March 17. 1647. This Honourable Committee with great readiness and chearfulness took it into their serious consideration and presented the result of their mature debates to this honourable House But so many and weighty have been the occasions and businesses of the House that however the nature of the work and my duty being appointed Agent though unworthy on the behalf of New-England to this Parliament yet durst not presse too hard to interrupt the great affaires your Honours have been in hand withall Nevertheles I do now crave leave humbly to acquaint you that what was then judged deficient in the power granted to the Feoffees in that Ordinance is since corrected and amended and attendeth your Honours leisure for compleating and finishing the same Undoubtedly the common enemy of mans salvation hath rejoyced that this work so happily begun hath not as yet received that countenance and encouragement from hence which your Honours intended and resolved many months since Nevertheles I trust the most wise God hath turned this appearing losse into gaine by affording your Honours and the Nation a more clear account of the reall and glorious Progres of the Gospel among those poor Indians in AMERICA by such Intelligence I very lately received from thence under the hands of those Reverend learned Ministers which are principally employed in preaching the Gospel to them in their own Language And as I am daily and earnestly called upon to publish the same that the whole Nation may be acquainted therewith So I took it to be my duty to present it in the first place to this honourable House and the Councel of State that your Honours might perceive how these poor Creatures cry out for help Oh come unto us teach us the knowledge of God tarry longer with us come and dwell amongst us at least depart not so soon from us And others of them whose dwellings are near the Habitations of the English whose hearts God hath touched calling for and demanding a free and full participation of all the Ordinances of Jesus Christ All which and much more is evidently held forth in the following Narrative which I have with all faithfulnes collected and transcribed according as I received the same from persons that were Actors therein and are of known Integrity There are two great questions Right Honourable which have much troubled ancient and modern writers and men of greatest depth and ability to resolve the first what became of the ten Tribes of Israel that were carried into Captivity by the King of Siria when their own Countrey and Cities were planted and filled with strangers The second is what Family Tribe Kindred or people it was that first planted and afterwards filled that vast and long unknown Countrey of America Now however I confesse questions are sooner asked then resolved yet let me ac●…uaint your Honors that a godly Minister of this City writing to Rabbi-ben-Israel a great Dr. of the Jewes now living at Amsterdam to know whether after all their labor travells and most diligent enquiry they did yet know what was become of the ten Tribes of Israel His answer was to this effect if not in these words That they were certainly transported into America and that they had infallible tokens of their being there Unto which if I may take the boldnesse to adde what my self with many others in New England have observed in the practice of the Indians there in relation to some things enjoyned in the ceremoniall Law of Moses about the purification of weomen which no men at this day do observe no●… beside the Jewes were ever known in that strictness to observe as these Indians there daily do As also if the principles of the most grave and sober amongst them not only in reference to a Deity the soule of man the immortality of the soule and an eternity after death in happines or misery but also their manifold daily expressions bewailing the losse of that knowledge their Ancestors had about God and the way of his Worship the general deluge and of one man only that ever saw God which they hold forth to be a long time since even with the greatest expression of length of time that may be which certainly I believe to be Moses As also if many other Circumstances well known to many but not fit to be at large expressed in any Epistle be duly considered It is not lesse probable that these Indians should come from the Stock of Abraham then any other Nation this day known in the world Especially considering the juncture of time wherein God hath opened their hearts to enter tain the Gospel being so nigh the very years in which many eminent and learned Divines have from Scripture grounds according to their apprehensions foretold the conversion of the Iewes However Right Honourable the work of communicating and encreasing the light of the Gospel is glorious in reference to Iewes Gentiles And as God hath set a signall marke of his presence upon your Assembly in strengthning your hands to redeem

will he blesse him Who killed Christ If a man be almost a good man and dyeth whither goeth his soule How long was Adam good before he sinned Seeing we see not God with our eyes if a man dream that he seeth God doth his soule then see him Did Adam see God before he sinned Shall we see God in Heaven If a wicked man pray whether doth he make a good prayer or when doth a wicked man pray a good prayer If a man repent doth God take away his sinnes and forgive him Whether did God make hell before Adam sinned If two families dwell in one house and one prayeth and the o●…her not what shall they that pray do to them that do not Did Abimeleck know Sarah was Abrahams wife Did not Abraham sin in saying she is my sister Seeing God promised Abraham so many children like the starres for multitude why did he give him so few and was it true If God made hell in one of the six dayes why did God make Hell before Adam had sinned Now the Indians desire to goe to Heaven what shall we do that we may go thither when we dye How shall I bring mine heart to love Prayer If one man repent and pray once in a day another man often in a day whether doth one of them go to Heaven the other not or what difference is there I finde I want wisdome what shall I do to be wise Why did Abraham buy a place to bury in Why doth God make good men sick How shall the Resurrection be and when Doe not Enlishmen spoile their soules to say a thing cost them more then it did and is it not all one as to steale You say our body is made of clay what is the Sunne or Moone made of If one be loved of all Indians good and bad another is hated of all saving a few that be good doth God love both these I see why I must feare Hell and do so every day But why must I feare God How is the tongue like fire and like poyson What if false Witnesses accuse me of murther or some soul sin What punishment is due to lyars If I reprove a man for sinne and he answer why doe you speak thus angerly to me Mr. Eliot teacheth us to love one another is this well Why is God so angry with murtherers If a wise put away her husband because he will pray to God and she will not what must be done in this case If there be young women pray to God may such as pray to God marry one that will not pray to God or what is to bee done in this case Whether doth God make bad men dream good Dreames VVhat is Salvation VVhat is the Kingdome of Heaven If my wife doe some work in the house on the night before the Sabbath and some work on the Sabbath night whether is this a sin If I doe that which is a sinne and do not know it is a sin what will God say to that VVhether is faith set in my heart or in my minde VVhy did Christ dye for us and who did kill him By these questions you may see they somewhat savour the things of God and Christ and that their soules be in a searching condition after the great points of Religion and Salvation And I will say this solemnly not suddenly nor lightly but before the Lord as I apprehend in my conscience were they but in a setled way of Civility and Government cohabiting together and I called according to God to live among them I durst freely joyne into Church-fellowship amongst them and could finde out at least twenty men and women in some measure fitted of the Lord for it and soone would be capable thereof And we doe admit in charity some into our Churches of our owne of whose spirituall estate I have more cause of feare then of some of them But that day of Grace is not yet come unto them When Gods time is come he will make way for it enable us to accomplish it In the meane time I desire to wait pray and beleeve But I will proceed no further at this time to trouble you with these things though I doubt not but they will be acceptable tidings to your heart and will be an occasion of quickning your prayers for them and for me also that utterance may be given mee and further knowledge of their language wherein for want of converse I can make but slow progresse Thus commending you to the Grace guidance and protection of God in Christ I rest Yours to be commanded in Iesus Christ IO. ELIOT Roxbury this 12. of Nov. 1648. In the next place I shall offer a second Letter of his written to a Gentleman of New-England here residing at present upon his urgent occasions wherein the Reader may have further light concerning this great work now begun Take his Letter as it followeth Sir YOur faithfull and true love to Iesus Christ is expressed evidently to my heart among other waies very much in your solicitous thoughts and care about the good of these poor Indians and the furtherance of their conversion God guided your discretion very seasonably in the Letters and Tokens you were pleased to send to those leading men which reallity of love was very thankfully accepted by them and they desire thanks to be returned for it c. Your project for their Apparell which you first mention is very fitting but all the difficulty will be to get so much cloath as you speak of Yet this they doe some old things I have gotten and given them and some they buy and they carefully keep them till meeting times and many of them at such times are pretty handsome both men women and children also And whereas some good people may think fitting to send some gifts that way for them you shall find directions here inclosed what will best sute with their condition Your next project for imployment of them in planting Orchards and Gardens it suiteth very well with my apprehensions and I have encouraged them that way and have promised them many hundred trees which I reserve in nurseries for them hope they shall set them out or some of them the next Spring The onely remora the fensing in of an Orchard we yet being upon the fencing in of a great Corne field where they have made I think 200. rod of ditching already setting two rayles in the top and are to stone up the banks as they raise stones in planting And when the field is fenced then they shall fence Orchards but they are hindred for want of Tooles and by bad Tooles discouraged their skill also being weak though the tooles were good but of 30. or 40. I have scarce any left But we must endeavour to get a Magazine for them of all manner of Tooles c. They had Sawyers at work last winter and will have more this winter I hope for they saw very good board and planke and could I be

God was well pleased with her in Christ and hereupon her willingnesse to dye in assurance of going to Heaven 5. Her care of her Children upon her first knowing of God and her charging them not to live with their kindred pressing it chiefly with this that they prayed not and that they committed sin and were not punished Oh holy and high attainment to see an evlil in sinning and not being punished This was the great evill threatned Hosea 9. 14. What doe all these things declare but this That Christ hath made the day of his power to arise upon those poor soules In making them a willing people And what improvement should we make of this comment upon the work of the Lord if not this or the like First To study and search into the works of the Lord to see how he counterplots the enemy in his designes In making the late Bishops persecuting of the Godly tend to the promoting of the Gospel Secondly To take heed of dispising the day of small things It being Gods way to lay most glorious workes upon little and despicable foundations And to advance the Treasury of the Gospel in earthen vessels even to the ends of the Earth Thirdly To be ashamed of and bewaile our want of affection to and estimation of that glorious Gospel and those great things of Christ which these poor Heathens upon the little Glymmerings and tasts so exceedingly value and improve Fourthly Doth not the observation of the preceeding reports clearly confirme the Doctrine of the Sabboth and the practise of prayer Oh tremble ye Sabboth-slighters and duty-dispisers Christ hath witnesses against you in America Be ashamed ye pretended-Men and fathers in Christ for comming short of Babes and Children In truth the very light of Nature will condemne you Prayer in all ages and that not mentall but verball and expresse hath been that by which the Deity hath been agnized and worshipped The converted Heathens in New-Eng and goe beyond you O ye Apostate Christians in England Lastly be incouraged to put to your helping hand unto the work of the Lord And to that end 1. Arise ye heads of our Tribes in Old England and extend your help to further Christs labourers in N. -England Rather ste●…l from your sleep an houre then suffer that good Ordinance to lye asleep so long which if drawn into an Act will exceedingly further this blessed work Surely if you were petitioned to in the name of Christ and his Gospel to give money out of your own purse to exalt him in furthering it Durst you deny it How much lesse can you deny the passing of an Act to enable some to receive and dispose what others would gladly give The work is so clear that you need not many houres to debate it And I hope you are so willing that I shall not need more words to presse it only let me add this that as Ministers so Statists do finde personall examples the most powerfull motives to practick doctrines 2. Rouze up your selves my Brethren ye Preachers of the Gospel this work concernes you Contrive and plot preach for and presse the advancement hereof It s cleare you may do much Let not this be your condemnation that you did nothing 3. Come forth ye Masters of money part with your Gold to promote the Gospel Let the gift of God in temporal things make way for the Indians receipt of spiritualls If you give any thing yearly remember Christ will be yout Pensioner If you give any thing into banke Christ will keep account thereof and reward it You hear of what things are necessary in order to the advancement of that one thing necessary Rest assured of this what ever you give will be well and wisely improved And as far as the Gospel is mediately advanced by your money be sure you will be remembred But to winde up all Fal down O all ye who love the Lord Iesus bow your knees t●… his father yours in his name to prosper the progresse made of the Gospel among the Indians in N-England Pray that an effectuall door may be openned there Remember Mr. Eliot Forget not Mr. Mayhew and all other that labour in the work Pray for them that Christs work may prosper in their hands Christ calls upon you by these Letters and saith The harvest is great but the Labourers are few pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest to send forth Labourers into his vineyard If you thus heare Christ and obey his voice you shall accomplish the end of this Appendix and exceedingly rejoyce the heart of the Author thereof who is An unworthy Labourer in Christs work here and an ardent desirer of further progresse thereof in New-England J. D. FJNJS Mr. Mayhews Letter from Capawack Novemb 18 1647. * Such as cure by devil'i●…h sorcery and to whom the devil appeares sometimes * The Indians so call their houses * A Prince or Ruler amongst them An indian speech worthy our consideration The better sort of them are full of such like expressions affecting to speak in Parables Mr. Eliots 2. Letter in 48. concerning the progresse of the Gospel among the Indians A precious testimony of an indian woman conceived to dye a Christian A precious dying speech of an indian woman to her children Note what hinders the progresse of the Gospel amongst them Examples in Superio●… very prevalent The same signignification with Sagamore viz one b●…aring ●…le among them A beade they make and is highly esteemed among the Indians equal to money with u●… Bad Governour have an evill infl●…nce upon the p●…pl * These Letters and Passengers are not yet come n●… England They shal ask the way 〈…〉 ☞ * It would be neither pleasing n●…r 〈…〉 and ther●…o●…e are l●…t out The indwelling of the spirit in us is mysterious a A choice spirit looks after his prayers b See Eccles. 6. 7. c A soft and serious spirited Christian eyes his thoughts d Forced marriages scrupled by Indians Conjectures Mr. Shepherd in the clear Sun-shine pag. 33. See pag. 5. 1 Thes. 1. See the Womans speech pag. 7. Observation Vide pag. 27. pag. 6 7. Application