A39225:28
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.
4. That sin is attended with guilt and punishment, & bindeth the sinner over unto death and judgment.
4. That sinne is attended with guilt and punishment, & bindeth the sinner over unto death and judgment.
5. That there is in him a natural desire to be delivered from death and to be happy.
5. That there is in him a naturall desire to be delivered from death and to be happy.
6. That he is not able by any strength or power of his own to free himself from death, or to make himself happy.
6. That he is not able by any strength or power of his own to free himselfe from death, or to make himselfe happy.
7. That that way of worship and service which he trusteth in for this deliverance, will never e able to effect it for him. For the vanity of Idolatrous and Satanical worship may by evidence of Reason, and by the inherent characters of impurity and absurdity within it self, be demonstrated. By that way the Lord in Scripture usually doth disprove it.