Pen. Aged Sachem, now that you and we are refreshed and strengthened •y this food, I will declare unto you strange News, to which I entreat your attendance a little while, and all the people here present. I am like a man that was looking for a shell, and found a Pearl of inestimable value, whereby he became very rich and renowned. I had a small occasion to come and visit you, gra•• Sachem, and by the way I met with this good man, a messenger o• God; by whose discourse my blind eyes are opened, my dead heart is made alive, my lame legs are enabled to walk in the way to heaven, where I shall enjoy an eternal Kingdom. Many miracles •ave been wrought upon me by the power of Gods Word spoken to me by this man: and that I may stir up your heart, and the hearts of the people here present to give diligent heed to what he saith, I will declare unto you what passed between us. I was a• you are, I lived as you live, I did as you do, and as the rest of ou• Countrymen and Neighbours do; I followed the sports, pleasures, vanities, and courses that other men, and you, to this day walk in• But I was not aware how blind, and dead, and vile, and wicked I was in the sight of God; nor was I aware that I was running o• in a pleasant delightful way, which led m• down to hell and eternal damnation.
But when I met this man, he discoursed with me about these things; he opened unto me, by the Word of God, the great Majesty of God, his Holiness, Justice, and Goodness; how God h•• made thi• great world, and all things in it, both things above, an• things below; how •e made man an eminent Creature, gave him dominion over all the creatures here below; & gave him an holy, ju•• ⟨p. 39⟩and good Law, in Ten Commandments, under the order of a Covenant of Works, and if he kept and obeyed this Law, he should live in glory and happiness for ever, but if he did break this Law, and sin against God, that great Majesty of heaven, then he should be answerably and justly pun••hed with eternal torments in hell fire, with the Devil and his Angels for evermore: and this L•w was for himself and all his posterity, in whose stead he sto•d as a public person.
Now he informed me, that Ada• the first man sinned by the temptation of evil Angels, which rebelled against God, and tu•ned Devils:
Pen. Aged Sachem, now that you and we are refreshed and strengthned •y this food, I will declare unto you strange News, to which I intreat your attendance a little while, and all the people here present. I am like a man that was looking for a shell, and found a Pearl of inestimable value, whereby he became very rich and renowned. I had a small occasion to come and visit you, gra•• Sachem, and by the way I met with this good man, a messenger o• God; by whose discourse my blinde eyes are opened, my dead heart is made alive, my lame legs are inabled to walk in the way to heaven, where I shall enjoy an eternal Ki••dome. Many miracles •ave been wrought upon me by the power of Gods Word spoken to me by this man: and that I may stir up your heart, and the hearts of the people here present to give diligent heed to what he saith, I will d•cl•re unto you what passed between us. I was a• you are, I lived as you live, I did as you do, and as the rest of ou• Countrymen and Neighbours do; I followed the sports, pleasures, vanities, and courses that other men, and you, to this day walk in• But I was not aware how blinde, and dead, and vile, and wicked I was in the sight of God; nor was I aw•re that I was running o• in a pleasant delightful way, which led m• down to hell and eternal damnation.
But when I met this man, he discoursed with me about these things; he opened unto me, by the Word of God, the great Majesty of God, his Holiness, Justice, and Goodness; how God h•• made thi• great world, and all things in it, both things above, an• things below; how •e made man an eminent Creature, gave him dominion over all the creatures here below; & gave him an holy, ju•• ⟨p. 39⟩and good Law, in Ten Commandments, under the order of a Covenant of Works, and if he kept and obeyed this Law, he should live in glory and happiness for ever, but if he did break this Law, and sin against God, that great Majesty of heaven, then he should be answerably and justly punhed with eternal torments in hell fire, with the Devil and his Angels for evermore: and this Lw was for himself and all his posterity, in whose stead he stod as a publick person.
Now he informed me, that Ada the first man sinned by the temptation of evil Angels, which rebelled against God, and tuned Devils:
