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A further account of the progress of the Gospel amongst the Indians in New-England,…A further accompt of the progresse of the Gospel amongst the Indians in New-England,…
A further account of the progress of the Gospel amongst the Indians in New-England, and of the means used effectually to advance the same set forth in certain letters sent from thence declaring a purpose of printing the Scriptures in the Indian tongue into which they are already translated : with which letters are likewise sent an epitome of some exhortations delivered by the Indians at a fast, as testimonies of their obedience tot he Gospel : as also some helps directing the Indians how to improve natural reason unto the knowledge of the true God.A further accompt of the progresse of the Gospel amongst the Indians in New-England, and of the means used effectually to advance the same set forth in certaine letters sent from thence declaring a purpose of printing the Scriptures in the Indian tongue into which they are already translated : with which letters are likewise sent an epitome of some exhortations delivered by the Indians at a fast, as testimonies of their obedience tot he Gospell : as also some helps directing the Indians how to improve naturall reason unto the knowledge of the true God.
London: printed by M. Simmons for Corporation of New England, 1659
To the reader: TO THE CHRISTIAN READER.To the reader: TO THE CRISTIAN READER.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
AS it is the Ardent prayer of all that love the Lord Jesus in sincerity, that his Kingdom may be enlarged, and the glorious light of 1the Gospel may shine forth into all N•ions, that all the ends of the world may see the salvation of our God, that the Stone cut out without hands may become so great a mountain as to fill the Earth, that the Idols may be utterly abolished, and the Gods of the Earth famished, and that all the Isles of the Heathen may worship the only true God: So the strange & scarcely to be paralleled concussions which have been in the world of late years, and so still continue, may seem to be no improbable harbingers of the more glorious manifestations of Christ thereunto, in answer to those desires of his servants. For the Shaking of all Nations maketh way for the coming 2of him, who is the desire of all Nations. The wind, and the earthquake, and the fire did usher in the still voice 3which sp•ke unto Elijah. When the Spirit came down upon the Apostles. there was a sound as of a rushing mighty wind, and the house was shaken, when the people therein 4were to be filled with the holy Ghost.
AS it is the Ardent prayer of all that love the Lord Iesus in sincerity, that his Kingdome may be enlarged, and the glorious l•ght of 1the Gospell may shine forth into all N•ions, that all the ends of the world may see the salvation of our God, that the Stone cut out without hands may become so great a mountaine as to fill the Earth, that the Idols may be utterly abolished, and the Gods of the Earth famished, and that all the Isles of the Heathen may worship the only true God: So the strange & scarcely to be paraleld concussions which have been in the world of late yeares, and so still continue, may seeme to be no improbable harbingers of the more glorious manifestations of Christ thereunto, in answer to those desires of his servants. For the Shaking of all Nations maketh way for the coming