Samson Occom, confession, to The Connecticut Board of the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge, 1769 January 4
Date4 January, 1769
ms number769104
abstractOccom confesses to being overtaken by strong drink, begs forgiveness and vows to “keep a better watch” over his conduct.
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and Honorable gentlemen
As I Stand in Connection to you, So I find it my Duty to make my
Faults known to you,— I have been shamefully, overtaken with Strong Drink, by which I have greatly wounded the cause of
God, and blemished the Pure Religion of Jesus
Christ and blackened my own Character, and
brought a reproach on the ministry, and
hurt my own Soul:— For which, as in the
Sight of
God, I am ashamed, I am Sorry, and Sincerely, Repent
— And I humbly Beg your forgiveness—and pray
you to
God for me.— I Resolve, relying upon the grace of
God, to keep a better guard and watch over myself in Time to Come and
desire to be restored to the charity of all all, who have been offended thereby.
Mohegan,
January 4: 1769
Mr. Occom's Confession
January
4th 1769—
To The Honorable Board of Correspondents of the Society in Scotland, Now sitting at Norwich.
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