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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.) But their defection at this time had a tendency to exasperate the English against all Indians that they would admit no distinction b between on Indian underlined and another, forgetting that the Scriptures do record that unclear of the heathens in Israel's time being unclear to the church proved very faithful and worthy men and women and unclear the Hittite unclear the Ammonite, unclear the Moabite., Chronicles II 39.41.46. And Rohab the harlot, and Ruth the Moabitess and divers others men and women. But this is no wonder that wicked men, yea, sometimes godly man are angry and displeased with others that fear god and too readily pass judgement on them that they are hypocrites.