A39226:61
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.
Wutásakómpavin.
Wutásakómpauin.
OH Christ help me! I confess my sins before God, and before men. We are all born in sin, because Adam sinned, and made his sin ours. Our Parents knew not God, nor the way of life; we Indians are all sinners, and did all sins, afore we heard of God; we did pray to every thing that is in the world, and knew not the way of life. When English men came first, we did pray to the Devil, and many were our sins; and God doth know all our sins, all which we have committed, before the English came. After the English came, I went to Sudbury, to Mr Browns house, and he said to me, Pray to God; but I did not like it, nor to hear of praying to God; but afterwards I heard Waban prayed to God, and I was not glad of it; yet after Waban prayed, he told us of it, and that the Minister came to Noonantam. I heard him, and he taught, that the souls of good men die and go to heaven, the souls of the wicked, when they die, they go to hell; but I only heard it. Then we resolved we would pray to God, and carry our children to Roxbury, that they might learn to pray, but we feared that we should not learn to pray. After the Minister taught that word, that every man himself must pray and believe to be saved; and though your sons be at Roxbury, ⟨p. 28⟩and learn to pray, yet if you pray not, you must be damned.
OH Christ help mee! I confess my sins before God, and before men. We are all born in sin, because Adam sinned, and made his sin ours. Our Parents knew not God, nor the way of life; we Indians are all sinners, and did all sins, afore we heard of God; we did pray to every thing that is in the world, and knew not the way of life. When English men came first, we did pray to the Devil, and many were our sins; and God doth know all our sins, all which we have committed, before the English came. After the English came, I went to Sudbury, to Mr Browns house, and he said to me, Pray to God; but I did not like it, nor to hear of praying to God; but afterwards I heard Waban prayed to God, and I was not glad of it; yet after Waban prayed, he told us of it, and that the Minister came to Noonantam. I heard him, and he taught, that the souls of good men die and go to heaven, the souls of the wicked, when they die, they go to hell; but I only heard it. Then we resolved we would pray to God, and carry our children to Roxbury, that they might learn to pray, but we feared that we should not learn to pray. After the Minister taught that word, that every man himself must pray and believe to be saved; and though your sons be at Roxbury,