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tianity, and hereby to incline them to apostacy and if the devil by this stratagem could have prevailed, then the whole work of Christ among them, so spoken of, blessed and owned by the Lord, would have been utterly over thrown. This would have gratified Latern and his instruments greatly. A second root of this trouble arose from the perfidious and unfaithful dealing of the wicked Indian's underliined and their ceaseless rage and cruelty and fury against England and particularly the Spring ? and Northampton Indians who lived near the English and deemed to carry it fair for a time, but at last proved perfidious and treacherous. But there was not one of them, that ever unclearof that was a pretender to Christian religion. This defection of those Indians (though some near the mark have been ready to say that if they were prudently managed as others of their neighbours, the Mohegans were, they might have continued in amity and been helpful to the English to this day)