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bless your honours & crowne you all spiritual, the [[?]] | bless your honours & crowne you all with spiritual, temporall, & etternal felicity, & make you more & more tender nurssing [[fathers?]] to Christs interest & concernes among the English & Indians in New England, prayes, your obliedged servant in this worke of the Lord Jesus Christ D G Cambridge in New England December 18th 1677. The Reverend Mr John Eliot ( teacher unto the praying Indians) his letter to the Author of this narrative upon this [[per?]] usall of it. "Sir I have prerused this narrative of the Christian Indians, both their sufferings, & doings, though (as you intimate) more might have Been said yet here is enough, to give wisemen a task of what have passed, leave the rest unto the day of Judgment, when all the continuuences, and [and] actings of me, shal be opened, before the al seeing eye, of our Glorious Judge. I do not see yt any man, or order of men, can find just cause of accepting yt [human frailty excepted) any thing yt you have written. As natural fathers so foster fathers, are wel pleased to heare well of their children. I doubt not but the right honorable Corporation, wil, wel accept this good service & duty, to give them so cleare an [[account?]] of their Foster children, A srvice which I confes I am not able to performe, the Lord Bless you" good | ||
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bless your honours & crowne you all with spiritual, temporall, & etternal felicity, & make you more & more tender nurssing fathers? to Christs interest & concernes among the English & Indians in New England, prayes, your obliedged servant in this worke of the Lord Jesus Christ D G Cambridge in New England December 18th 1677. The Reverend Mr John Eliot ( teacher unto the praying Indians) his letter to the Author of this narrative upon this per? usall of it. "Sir I have prerused this narrative of the Christian Indians, both their sufferings, & doings, though (as you intimate) more might have Been said yet here is enough, to give wisemen a task of what have passed, leave the rest unto the day of Judgment, when all the continuuences, and [and] actings of me, shal be opened, before the al seeing eye, of our Glorious Judge. I do not see yt any man, or order of men, can find just cause of accepting yt [human frailty excepted) any thing yt you have written. As natural fathers so foster fathers, are wel pleased to heare well of their children. I doubt not but the right honorable Corporation, wil, wel accept this good service & duty, to give them so cleare an account? of their Foster children, A srvice which I confes I am not able to performe, the Lord Bless you" good