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A further account of the progress of the Gospel amongst the Indians in New…
A further account of the progress of the Gospel amongst the Indians in New England: being a relation of the confessions made by several Indians (in the presence of the elders and members of several churches) in order to their admission into church-fellowship. Sent over to the corporation for propagating the Gospel of Jesus Christ amongst the Indians in New England at London, by Mr John Elliot one of the labourers in the word amongst them.A further account of the progress of the Gospel amongst the Indians in New England: being a relation of the confessions made by several Indians (in the presence of the elders and members of several churches) in order to their admission into church-fellowship. Sent over to the corporation for propagating the Gospel of Jesus Christ amongst the Indians in New England at London, by Mr John Elliot one of the laborers in the word amonsgt them.
London: printed by John Macock, 1660
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.
Then that Winter God broke my head; I knew but little, I was almost dead: Then my heart said, Now I know God is angry with me for my sins, and hath therefore smote me; then I prayed hard, when I was almost dead. I remembered my sins much, and considered them much: I remembered that God made all the world, and therefore assuredly there is a God. I heard that God made Adam, and made him in his own image, Gen. 1. and assuredly none but God could make all the world, heaven, earth, sea, &c. then I did believe that God did make the world.
Then that Winter God broke my head; I knew but little, I was almost dead: Then my heart said, Now I know God is angry with mee for my sins, and hath therefore smote mee; then I prayed hard, when I was almost dead. I remembred my sins much, and considered them much: I remembred that God made all the world, and therefore assuredly there is a God. I heard that God made Adam, and made him in his own image, Gen. 1. and assuredly none but God could make all the world, heaven, earth, sea, &c. then I did believe that God did make the world.
Again, I confess, I saw that I had offended against God, and sinned against him, and that I had the root of ⟨p. 13⟩sin in me, and that I had deserved all miseries, and death, and hell. I heard, that God made a Covenant with Adam, and forbade him to eat of the Tree in the midst of the Garden; and yet he did eat, and therefore God was angry with man: and I was born in sin, and therefore God was angry with me: and because I have sometime forsaken God, and run wild, therefore I now know my sin and my offence against God. I desire no more to cast off God and prayer, for now I know my sins, and that I have deserved misery: therefore now I desired to pray to God, as long as I live. I desired pardon of my sins, and I thought it may be God will pardon me: and my heart prayed to God, Oh God if thou give me life again, I will assuredly believe and obey; and now I know my sins by the sin of Adam: but when I had thus done, quickly my heart would be vain again. After my wound, when I came to my self and awaked, I saw my sin, and promised God to pray unto him, when I saw the mercy of God was so great unto me: I heard that word, Say not, I will pray hereafter, but now, Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, but pray to God; and that made my heart to yield to do it. Then I understood,