A further account of the progress of the Gospel amongst the Indians in New…

I may, not unfitly, make use of those Prophesies of Moses and Isaiah concerning the Jews and Gentiles (and so applied by the Apostle Paul, Rom. 10. 19, 20, 21.) in this present case between us in England and the Indians. The Lord hath begun to provoke us to Jealousy by them that were no people, and by a foolish Nation he hath angered us, he is ⟨image 4⟩found of them that sought him not, he is made manifest to them that asked not after him, but all the day long hath he stretched out his hands unto us a disobedient and gainsaying people. Conversions are grown somewhat rare (that's sad) in England; and such accounts of Conversion much more rare. And as we find but few able to give any passable account of their conversion to God, so we find not a few offended at the requiring and taking of it, before admission into complete Church-communion. We have many who profess the Religion they were born in, but we have (comparatively) only a few, who profess Religion upon the evidences of their New-Birth. And that's one great reason why the Church and the world, the precious and the vile, are in so lamentable a mixture in most places at this day.

I may, not unfitly, make use of those Prophesies of Moses and Esaias concerning the Iewes and Gentiles (and so applyed by the Apostle Paul, Rom. 10. 19, 20, 21.) in this present case between us in England and the Indians. The Lord hath begun to provoke us to Jealousie by them that were no people, and by a foolish Nation hee hath angred us, hee is ⟨image 4⟩found of them that sought him not, hee is made manifest to them that asked not after him, but all the day long hath hee stretched out his hands unto us a disobedient and gainsaying people. Conversions are grown somewhat rare (that's sad) in England; and such accounts of Conversion much more rare. And as we finde but few able to give any passable account of their conversion to God, so wee finde not a few offended at the requiring and taking of it, before admission into compleat Church-communion. Wee have many who profess the Religion they were born in, but wee have (comparatively) only a few, who profess Religion upon the evidences of their New-Birth. And that's one great reason why the Church and the world, the pretious and the vile, are in so lamentable a mixture in most places at this day.