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Cotes, for Fulk Clifton and are to bee fold at his Ihop under Saint Margaretts Church on New-fifti-ftreet Hill, 1647. /JaffiH^SVMAi4^rM^fH^?l^r^^ To the Reader. Ee that perid thefe following Relations is a Minijier of Chriji in New Eng- land, yo eminently godly and faithfully that what he here reports, as an eye or an eare witnejfe, is not to be quejlioned; Were he willing his name Jhould be mentioned, it would bee an abundant, if not a redundant, Tejiimo- niall to all that know him, Nathan, Warde. *f*M««ffl!^Hkf«i|e«^^ TRVE RELATION OF Our beginnings with the INDIANS. Pon OiSlober 28. 1646. four of us (having fought God) went unto the Indians inhabiting within our bounds, with defire to make known the things of their peace to them, A little before we came to their Wigwams, five or fix of the chief of them met us with Englifh falu- tations, bidding us much welcome, who leading us unto the principall Wigwam of '^'Waaubon^ we found *The name of | many more Indians^ men women, children, gathered an Indian, together from all quarters round about, according to ap- pointment, to meet with us, and learne of us. Waaubon the chief minifl:er of Jufl:ice among them exhorting and inviting them before thereunto, bei^g one who gives more grounded hopes of ferious refj. ^*-. to the things of God,then any that as yet I have knowi.e of that forlorne generation ; and therefore fince wee firfl: began to deale ferioufly with him, hath voluntarily oflFered his eldeft fon to be educated and trained up in the knowledge of God, hoping, as hee told us, that he might come to know him, although hee defpaired much concerning himfelf ; and accordingly his fon was accepted, and is now at fchool in Dedhaniy whom we found at this time ftanding ( 2 ) (landing by his father among the reft of his Indian brethren in Englifh clothes. They being all there affembled, we began with prayer, which now was in Englifh, being not fo farre acquainted with the Indian language as to exprefle our hearts herein before God or them, but wee hope it will bee done ere long, the Indians defiring it that they alfo might know how to pray, but thus wee began in an unknowne tongue to them, partly to let them know that this dutie in hand was ferious and facred, (for fo much fome of them underftand by what is undertaken at prayer) partly alfo in regard of our felves, that wee might agree together in the fame requeft and heart forrowes for them even in that place where God was never wont to be called upon. When prayer was ended it was a glorious affeding fpedacle to fee a company of perifhing, forlorne out- cafts, dilligently attending to the bleffed word of falva- tion then delivered ; profeffing they underftood all that which was then taught them in their owne tongue ; it much afFeded us that they.fhould fmell fome things of the Alabafter box broken up in that darke and gloomy habitation of filthinefle and uncleane fpirits. For about an houre and a quarter the Sermon con- tinued, wherein one of our company ran thorough all the principall matter of religion, beginning firft with a reptition of the ten Commandements, and a briefe ex- plication of them, then fhewing the curfe and dreadfull wrath of God againft all thofe who brake them, or any one of them, or the leaft title of them, and fo applyed it unto the condition of the Indians prefent, with much fweet affedion ; and then preached Jefus Chrift to them the onely meanes of recovery from finne and wrath and eternall death, and what Chrift was, and whither he was now gone, and how hee will one day come ( 3 ) come againe to judge the world in flaming fire; and of the blefled eftate of all thofe that by faith beleeve in Chrift, and know him feelingly : he fpake to them alfo (obferving his owne method as he faw mofl: fit to edifie them) about the creation and fall of man, about the greatnefl!e and infinite being of God, the maker of all things, about the joyes of heaven, and the terrours and horrours of wicked men in hell, perfwading them to repentance for feverall fins which they live in, and many things of the like nature; not meddling with any matters more difficult, and which to fuch weake ones might at firfl: feeme ridiculous, untill they had tafl:ed and beleeved more plaine and familiar truths. Having thus in a fet fpeech familiarly opened the principal matters of Salvation to them, the next thing wee intended was difcourfe with them by propounding certaine queftions to fee what they would fay to them, that fo wee might fkrue by variety of meanes fome- thing or other of God into them ; but before wee did this we afked them if they underftood all that was already fpoken, and whether all of them in the fFig- warn did underftand or onely fome few ? and they an- fwered to this queftion with multitude of voyces, that they all of them did underftand all that which was then fpoken to them. We then defired to know of them, if they would propound any queftion to us for more cleare underftanding of what was delivered ; whereupon feverall of them propounded prefently feve- rall queftions, (far diflferent from what fome other In- dians under Kitchomakia in the like meeting about fix The name of weeks before had done, viz. i. What was the caufe of the chicfe In- Thunder. 2. Of the Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea. dians about us. 3. Of the wind) but the queftions (which wee thinke fome fpeciall wifedome of God directed thefe unto) (which thefe propounded) were in number fix. B How ( + ) I ^eft. How may wee come to know Jefus Chrift ? Anfw. 0"f fifft anfwer was. That if they were to read our Bible, the book of God, therein they fhould fee moft cleerely what Jefus Chrift was ; but becaufe they could not do that ; therefore. Secondly, we wiftit them to thinke, and meditate of fo much as had been taught them, and which they now heard out of Gods booke, and to thinke much and often upon it, both when they did lie downe on their Mats in their Wigwams^ and when they rofe up, and to goe alone in the fields and woods, and mufe on it, and fo God would teach them ; efpecially if they ufed a third helpe, which was, 3 Prayer to God to teach them and reveale Jefus Chrift unto them ; and wee told them, that although they could not make any long prayers as the Englifti could, yet if they did but figh and groane, and fay thus ; Lord make mee know Jefus Chrift, for I know him not, and if they did fay fo againe and againe with their hearts that God would teach them Jefus Chrift, becaufe hee is fuch a God as will bee found of them that feeke him with all their hearts, and hee is a God hearing the prayers of all men both Indian as well as Englifh, and that Englijh men by this meanes have come to the knowledge of Jefus Chrift. The laft helpe wee gave them was repentance, they muft confefle their finnes and ignorance unto God, and mourne for it, and acknowledge how juft it is, for God to deny them the knowledge of Jems Chrift or any thing elfe becaufe of their iinnes. Thefe things were fpoken by him who had preached to them in their owne language, borrowing now and then fome fmall helpe from the Interpreter whom wee brought with us, and who could oftentimes exprefle our minds more diftindly than any of us could ; but this wee perceived, that a few words from the Preacher were ( 5 ) if were more regarded then many from the Indian Inter- preter. One of them after this anfwer, reply ed to us that 2 ^efl. hee was a little while fince praying in his Wigwaniy unto God and Jefus Chrift, that God would give him a good heart, and that while hee was praying, one of his fellow Indians interrupted him, and told him, that hee prayed in vaine, becaufe Jefus Chrift underftood not what Indians fpeake in prayer, he had bin ufed to heare Englifli man pray and fo could well enough under- ftand them, but Indian language in prayer hee thought hee was not acquainted with it, but was a ftranger to it, and therefore could not underftand them. His quef- tion therefore was, whether Jefus Chrift did under- ftand, or God did underftand Indian prayers. This queftion founding juft like themfelves wee Avfw. ftudied to give as familiar an anfwer as wee could, and therefore in this as in all other our anfwers, we endeavoured to fpeake nothing without clearing of it up by fome familiar fimilitude ; our anfwer fummarily was therefore this, that Jefus Chrift and God by him made all things, and makes all men, not onely Englijh but Indian men, and if hee made them both (which wee know the light of nature would readily teach as they had been alfo inftruded by us) then hee knew all that was within man and came from man, all his defires, and all his thoughts, and all his fpeeches, and fo all his prayers ; and if hee made Indian men, then hee knowes all Indian prayers alfo : and therefore wee bid them looke upon that Indian Bafket that was before them, there was black and white ftrawes, and many other things they made it of, now though others did not know what thofe things were who made not the Bafket, yet hee that made it muft needs tell all the things in it, fo (wee faid) it was here. Another 3 Q.«^ft' AJnw, 4 6«C/?- Anfw. 5 Q«^A ( 6 ) Another propounded this queftion after this anfwer. Whether Englifli men were ever at any time fo ignorant of God and Jefus Chrift as thcmfelves ? When wee perceived the root and reach of this queftion, wee gave them this anfwer, that there are two forts of Englifli men, fome are bad and naught, and live wickedly and loofely, (defcribing them) and thefe kind of Engliflimen wee told them were in a manner as ignorant of Jefus Chrift as the Indians now are ; but there are a fecond fort of Englifli men, who though for a time they lived wickedly alfo like other prophan-i and ignorant Englifli, yet repenting of their finnes, and feeking after God and Jefus Chrift, they are good men now, and now know Chrift, and love Chrift, and pray to Chrift, and are thankfull for all they have to Chrift, and fliall at laft when they dye, goe up to heaven to Chrift; and we told them all thefe alfo were once as ignorant of God and Jefus Chrift as the Indians are, but by feeking to know him by reading his booke, and hearing his word, and praying to him, &c. they now know Jefus Chrift and juft fo ftiall the Indians know him if they fo feeke him alfo, although at the prefent they bee extremely ignorant of him. How can there be an Image of God, becaufe it's forbidden in the fecond Commandement ? . Wee told them that Image was all one Pifture, as the Pidlure of an Indian^ Bow and Arrowes on a tret , with fuch little eyes and fuch faire hands, is not an Indian but the Pidure or Image of an Indian^ and that Pidure man makes, and it can doe no hurt nor good. So the Image of Pidure of God is not God, but wicked men make it, and this Image can doe no good nor hurt to any man as God can. Wether, if the father be naught, and the child good, will God bee offended with that child, becaufe in the fecond ( 7 ) fecond Commandement it's faid, that hee vifits the finnes of fathers upon the children ? Wee told them the plaineft anfwerwee could thinkt ^ft/w. of, viZy that if the child bee good, and the father bad, God will not bee offended with the child, if hee re- pents of his owne and his fathers finnes, and followes not the fteps of his wicked father ; but if the child bee alfo bad, then God will vifit the fins of fathers upon them, and therefore wiflit them to confider of the other part of the promife made to thoufands of them that love God and the Evangenefli Jehovahy i. e. the Commandements of Jehovah. How all the world is become fo full of people, if 6 Qu.jL they were all once drowned in the Flood ? Wee told them the ftory and caufes of Noahs pre- ^nfw. fervation in the Arke at large, and fo their queftion- ing ended ; and therefore wee then faw cur time of propounding fome few queftions to them^ and fo take occafion thereby to open matters of God more fully. Our firfl: queftion was. Whether they did not defire Quejl. i to fee God, and were not tempted to thinke that there was no God, becaufe they cannot fee him ? Some of them replyed thus ; that indeed tb'^y did An/w. defire to fee him if it could bee, but they had heard from us that he could not be feene, and they did be- leive that though their eies could not fee him, yet that hee was to bee feene with their foule within : Here- upon we fought to confirme them the more, and aiked them if they faw a great tVigwamy or a great houfe, would they think that '^Racoones or Foxes built it that *a begft fome- had no wifedome ? or would they thinke that it made what like a Fox it felfe ? or that no wife workman made it, becaufe they could not fee him that made it ? No but they would beleeve fome wife workman made it though they did not fee him ; fo fiiould they beleeve con- cerning ■ Queji. 2. ♦Three Indian name of places where the Eng- lilh fit downe. That Hee was prefent every where. 3 QiifA An/w, { 8 ) cerning God, when they looked up to heaven, Sunne, Moone, and Stars, and faw this great houfe he hath made, though they do not fee him with their eyes, yet they have good caufe to beleeve with their foules that a wife God, a great God made it. We knowing that a great block in their way to be- leiving is that there Ihould bee but one God, (by the profeffion of the Engliih) and yet this God in many places ; therefore we afked them whether it did not feeme ftrange that there ihould bee but one God, and yet this God in ^MaJfachufettSy at Cone£facuty at ^imi- peiocky in old England, in this Wigwam^ in the next every where. Their anfwer was by one moft fober among them, that indeed it was ftrange, as everything elfe they heard preached was ftrange alfo, and they were wonderfull things which they never heard of before ; but yet they thought it might bee true, and that God was fo big every where : whereupon we further illuftrated what wee faid, by wifhing them to conftder of the light of the Sun, which though it be but a creature made by God, yet the fame light which is in this Wigwam was in the next alfo, and the fame light which was here at Majfachufetts was at ^inipeiock alfo and in old Eng- land alfo, and every where at one and the fame time the fame, much more was it fo concerning God. Whether they did not finde fomewhat troubling them within after the commiflion of fin, as murther, adultery, theft, lying, &c. and what they thinke would comfort them againft that trouble when they die and appeare before God, (for fome knowledge of the im- mortality of the foule almoft all of them have.) They told us they were troubled, but they could not tell what to fay to it, what ihould comfort them ; hee therefore who fpake to then! at iirft concluded with a ( 9 ) a dolefull defcription (fo farre as his ability to fpeake in that tongue would carry him) of the trembling and mourning condition of every foul that dies in finne, and that fhall be caft out of favor with God. Thus after three houres time thus fpent with them, wee afked them if they were not weary, and they an- fwered. No. But wee refolved to leave them with an appetite ; the chiefe of them feeing us conclude with prayer, defired to know when wee would come againe, fo wee appointed the time, and having given the chil- dren fome apples, and the men fome tobacco and what elfe we then had at hand, they defired fome more ground to build a Town together, which wee did much like of, promifing to fpeake for them to the generall Court, that they might poflefle all the compafle of that hill, upon which their Wigwams then ftood, and fo wee departed with many welcomes from them. A true relation of our coming to the Indians ajecond time, VPon November ii. 1646. we came the fecond time unto the fame Wigwam of Waawbon, we found many more Indians met together then the firft time wee came to them : and having feates provided for us by themfelves, and being fate downe a while, wee be- gan againe with prayer in the Englifti tongue ; our beginning this time was with the younger fort of In- dian children in Catechizing of them, which being the firft time of inftru