Ant. With due respect unto you, Sachem, I shall thus answer unto what you s•y. If a great Sachem in a far Country should send unto you a writing, wherein he giveth you wise Counsel, would you not read it? would you not hear what he saith? and would you not suffer your people to learn wisdom, but continue in their ignorance and blindness? Sure you would show so much respect to a man, a Sachem, that should do so kindly to you. Now so it is, that the great God who made these high heavens, and the great Lights that be therein; who made this Earth, and all this great World, and all things in it; who is King of kings, and Lord of lords: I say this Great God, pitying to see the ignorance that all men are darkened withal, he hath sent us his Word, which will make wise the ignorant, and will you not suffer your people to learn that wisdom? do you love darkness better then light?
Besides, all Mankind live in the ways of sin, which lead them to hell torments, where they shall be punished with eternal fire: but God pitying this miserable condition of man, hath sent us this Word of his, which showeth us the way to escape hell torments, and leadeth us into the way that leadeth us to eternal life, happiness and glory. And will not you suffer your people to learn this good way, when God offereth it unto us? Consider how your people will curse you, when they feel these torments, because you would not suffer them to learn the true way to heaven and happiness. And what though we are not wiser then our Forefathers, yet God can teach us such wisdom as our Forefathers did not know. I think, that we are bound to think that our fathers were so wise, that if Gods Word •ad been brought and offered to them, they would have received it, and would have learned by it to be wiser then they were, and why therefore should not we be so wise, as to do that which our wise fathers would have done, if this light had shined unto them, as it now doth unto us. Let not the deepness of that wisdom in Gods Word, hinder us that are ignorant from searching into it, for by reading of Gods word the ignorant may be made wise, Psal. 197. it maketh wise the simple: and Prov. 1.•. The Word gives wisdom to the simple, and to the young man knowledge ⟨p. 56⟩and discretion. David learned to be wise by reading the word of God, Wiser then his Enemies, wiser then his Teachers, wiser then the Ancients, Psal.
Ant. With due respect unto you, Sachem, I shall thus answer unto what you s•y. If a great Sachem in a far Country should send unto you a writing, wherein he giveth you wise Counsel, would you not reade it? would you not hear what he saith? and would you not suffer your people to learn wisdome, but continue in their ignorance and blindness? Sure you would shew so much respect to a man, a Sachem, that should do so kindly to you. Now so it is, that the great God who made these high heavens, and the great Lights that be therein; who made this Earth, and all this great World, and all things in it; who is King of kings, and Lord of lords: I say this Great God, pittying to see the ignorance that all men are darkned withall, he hath sent us his VVord, which will make wise the ignorant, and will you not suffer your people to learn that wisdome? do you love darkness better then light?
Besides, all Mankinde live in the wayes of sin, which lead them to hell torments, where they shall be punished with eternal fire: but God pittying this miserable condition of man, hath sent us this VVord of his, which sheweth us the way to escape hell torments, and leadeth us into the way that leadeth us to eternal life, happiness and glory. And will not you suffer your people to learn this good way, when God offereth it unto us? Consider how your people will curse you, when they feel these torments, because you would not suffer them to learn the true way to heaven and happiness. And what though we are not wiser then our Forefathers, yet God can teach us such wisdome as our Forefathers did not know. I think, that we are bound to think that our fathers were so wise, that if Gods VVord •ad been brought and offered to them, they would have received it, and would have learned by it to be wiser then they were, and why therefore should not we be so wise, as to do that which our wise fathers would have done, if this light had shined unto them, as it now doth unto us. Let not the deepness of that wisdome in Gods VVord, hinder us that are ignorant from searching into it, for by reading of Gods word the ignorant may be made wise, Psal. 197. it maketh wise the simple: and Prov. 1.•. The Word gives wisdome to the simple, and to the young man knowledge ⟨p. 56⟩and discretion. David learned to be wise by reading the word of God, Wiser then his Enemies, wiser then his Teachers, wiser then the Ancients, Psal.
