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The Occom Circle Project is a digital edition of letters from and to Samson Occom (1727-1792), with other of his works. The documents in question are all housed in Dartmouth College's Rauner Special Collections Library. Occom was a Mohegan Indian, intertribal leader, public intellectual, and the most important Indian writer in North America in the 18th century.
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Neighbour Drink! that
thy Bottle to him,
and
him Drunken
they may follow Strong Drink,
that
Continue
Wine
drink wine, and men of Strength
to mingle
Strong Drink. — —
God, the Eternal
Father of all — Saw fit to Cre
ate this World, and he
with
Animate and Inanimate Creature
The
moving Creatures upon the
Face of the earth are innu
rable and various, both great
and Small, — And the
Without Number, and of all sort
and the productions of the
earth
amazing in their
upon the Face of the Earth, — And
the Lord,
ma
we
the Very Choice and the
lent things in the World. — And the
Sea the
Lakes and all Streams were
all full of every kind of
great and Small. — and the
naries
naries
vens, Like
Moon and the Stars, were made
to give Light to this
wWorld. —
and when the Lord God, had Boun
tifully
and Richly
World, with every
Then last of all, he made man
for whom he made this
World, —
he was the Crown, the Glory, and
the Excellency and
the Beauty
of the whole Creation. For God
made
and
him the Breath of Life and he
became a living and
Soul, — and the Lord formed
Wo
little lower the Angels — and
the Lord
and freely
gave it to them, and
every ꞈ in it except one Tree
which was in the
garden, and they were not to
eat of that, for in the
Day, that
they
and we
they stood in their
they
Glorified god in all things —
and they fully
that was their
pineſs
piness
in that State of
might hence been happy to
ages — But alas we find a
loncholy
lancholy
the Tempter Came to our Mother
with a lie; She
put forth her Hand
eat of it, and gave unto her
their
Light and Comfort, — They
into Sin and
manner
ral Spiritual and Eternal —
This is
the
mankind, he is now prone to all
manner of Sin, —
alas, where is man
and what is man? The most Noble
Creature is become the most
Igno
ble Creature. from being
an Angel, is become a Devil. —
He is now practicing all
manner
of Sins, — and
ous
of the
mongſt
mongst
I Shall now Say Something from
the Texts I have read; Some may
think it Strange, that I
so many Texts to make one
upon; I aim to Speak to two sorts
of People in particular
—
I shall now take notice of the
tk
ful
they were made for our Support
and Comfort
in Life — but when
we
of Temperance we
lawfully, and Sin
the Giver of all
and there is Sin, both in Commu
nicateing and receiving
forts, as we See in our Text. —
A dreadful is
him that gives Drink to his Neigh
bour, a bad intention
—
d
as
go to
we Saviour.
Acts. 4. 12.
we
Saviour. —
we
Sins.
we
of the Law.
we
t.
we
t.
we l
John. 10. 10. John. 20. 31. John
yea our all. —
dly.
the Sons of god. John. 1. 12.
if sons then heirs.
heirs to. 1.
the
Method of
st.
call, or invitation is
d
how they
dly.
this invitation in mind of the great
thly.
of this call or invitation of
thly.
few words
of Exhortation. —
st.
men. not devils. to
now in the Land of the Living. not the
Damne
wonders, that
are going
to