A39225:65
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
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.
Again, we must not be like hypocrites in our fasting, for they disfigure their faces, and seem to men as if they mourned and fasted, and repented, but in their hearts they do not so, and therefore God who knoweth what is in the heart, and seeth in secret, he doth know their hypocrisy, and so he knoweth our hypocrisy, if we come here, and appear to man as if we fasted, and yet in our hearts we fast not, if we do not mourn and repent for sin, we do not fast, God doth not account that to be a fast. Again, such as fast an hypocritical fast, they shall be sure to be rewarded, and what reward will God give to such as fast like hypocrites? I answer, that you may see what the wages of hypocrites is, Mat. 24, 51. shall cut him asunder, & appoint him his portion with the hypocrites, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, and this is evil wages: and therefore let us be moved, to keep a right fast this day, by repenting of our sins, and amending of our lives, and then the Lord will reward us openly, if he see that our hearts are right before him.
Again, we must not be like hypocrites in our fasting, for they disfigure their faces, and seem to men as if they mourned and fasted, and repented, but in their hearts they doe not so, and therefore God who knoweth what is in the heart, and seeth in secret, he doth know their hypocrisie, and so he knoweth our hypocrisie, if we come here, and appear to man as if we fasted, and yet in our hearts we fast not, if we do not mourn and repent for sin, we do not fast, God doth not account that to be a fast. Again, such as fast an hypocritical fast, they shall be sure to be rewarded, and what reward will God give to such as fast like hypocrites? I answer, that you may see what the wages of hypocrites is, Mat. 24, 51. shall cut him asunder, & appoynt him his portion with the hypocrites, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, and this is evill wages: and therefore let us be moved, to keep a right fast this day, by repenting of our sins, and amending of our lives, and then the Lord will reward us openly, if he see that our hearts are right before him.