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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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Giving thanks always for all
things unto God,
Perhaps there is no Duty
incumbent upon
tures, more frequently
the Providence of God, than this
Duty of giving thanks to
god,
there is nothing So
Becoming in
ing of thanks, to their great
ver
ver
the Inanimate Creation Seems to
Creator —
We may at once Perceive
ething
in
and a Glorious work too
In the
we find the work
Giving thanks,
inquiry to whom we are to give
thanks, we may find object,
unto GOD; Thirdly we find,
the Time when, this Duty, of
giving Thanks is to be Done it is
Always Fourthly we find the
Matter, or for
what we are to
give Thanks; for all Things
Shall endeavor to
in the following
vour
This, I Conclude is well
&slong;tood
stood
to Years of
It is to have a grateful
and Right
the Benefits Conferred upon us
and an Acknowledgment
of
to our Benefactors with glad
with Humility, and a Careful
and Right
we Receive, even
the Mind and
of Benefactors for which they
The work
work of the giver is one, and
the work of the Receiver is
a
nother,˄ we are dependent Crea
tures
upon one to another, the
out the vulgar Sort, and we,
as
give and receive
from another, The giver has
Benefactor, as we find
the Duty
in 2 to the
other Places in the Word of god —
and the
Receiver has another
Command or Precept from God th
Great Benefactor, their wor
is to Receive Right, and
to be
Place to God the only giver of
all good things, and next to
god
we are to be thankful to the
we
Received Benefits, — let the
Second
givers or
give as they
a right
of the Receivers
ought to See to it, to do the work
that is
Benefactors, to be
ly and
to god and to his People by wi
whom they
have received bene‐
factions — But man is Such a
Creature, many of them when
they Receive a
their
ry and
giver, gave freely and Cheerfully
or Grudgingly
and of
and if they
Benefactor, and are
gifts back in the Face of the
giver with
this Plainly Argues the Horrid
and dtue
unworthy
be thankful to god, for they don't
are from god, for it is he that
opens the Hands, if
not the Hearts
of his People, to give to the Nee‐
dy, and
is his Due Chiefly; and But if
the Receiver Cant be
thankful
to their fellow Creatures that have
Shown
they be
But
truly Thankful are melted
Down with the
liation and Self Loathing in them
As we find holy
Price upon the Benefits he
, or has a Scale as it were, So he
and
or rather his Blank Indgratitude
—
the ungrateful
he did enough in Religion ˄ —
But the Grateful Man Sets no
Price upon the Benefits he
nor limits to his
thinks he Can never be thankful
enough for Favours received
—
Thus we find the
Israel, the
what Shall
his Benefits towards me? it Seems
by st
found himself unable
ble
ble
nessfrom god
from him, and it was his Dili‐
gent
Search or Study to find a way
to
god, as his holy thanksgiving
abundantly Show, — if we
David in his great work of giving
Thanks, According to his Psalms
Notice and his
of the Benefits of god towards him
and this begets a grateful
of the Favours of god, and that
breaks forth into
and thanksgiving — Yea upon find
ing
cient
cient
both in Heaven and Earth to Join
with him
in his gr
giving thanks and
God; and indeed it
Right that Dependent Creatures
This Seems to be
Dumb
their Benefactors or
a Certain
of their Bodies,— the Fowls of
the
A
ven and Sing forth their
to God, — Toads and Frogs, and
all the venomous
Kind, have their
way of giving thanks to their Mas
Seing their various Notes of
to god, if all
thanks and
ought Man
is Mans Beauty and Glory as well
as Duty,
to give thanks and
to Heaven, and it is his
So to do —
Secondly let us t
the object, or to Whom we are
or ought to give thanks, it is
unto God, the Great Creator of
Heaven and Earth, and the upholder
and
Governor of the Same, and the only
Benefactor, unto him we are to give
thanks,
Even
To him we are to give thanks
that
of the Earth —
To him, that Breathed into
our Bodies the Breath of Life, t
To him we are under Infinite
obligations, who Confers, not few and
Small
on us, but very all godod
things
not at times only, but
To him we are to give thanks
who e
the whole
world for our Sakes —
To him we are under
obligations,
Made the Herb of the Field, and
all the Fruits of the Earth
for
the life of Man, He that
made all manner of
the Fowls of the Air, and the
given and
tures unto us, to him we are to ˄
unfeigned thanks
To him we are to give
humble thanks, into
we have yies, yet
Continues his Mercies to us
the Mediator
To him, in whom Live Move and
have our Beings, we owe all
To him, who
only begotten son into the World, to
Save us vile
Sinners from
Ruin, to Eternal
to him we are Bound to give
Sincere and humble, Yet Joyful
Thanks —
Thirdly let us
Time, when, this Duty of giving
thanks is to be done, it is
there is no Limited Time, or a Certain
all Times; this is
altogether
able
able
fits and Mercies of
various kinds
from god, we live and Move and
have our Being in him
all the Faculties and Powers Both
of Soul and Body are
in us by god
and Drink
which we have Always
return, as we always live upon
a
thanks be always to God — further
this giving of thanks
always may
to have grateful
ne&slong;s
ness
holy
thanks to
god always, as David
abundantly Shows in his holy P
his
all this Time; So
Creatures
tain
of giving Thanks to God;, whether
Privet
as there is no Minute of our lives
empty of Mercies
from god, So
we fill every Minute of our lives
with thanks I David
Says
I will
Day, or give thanks Seven Times a
Day, —
So
god, not only Seven Times a Day
but Seventy
Times Seven
I mean to have a T
of Heart all the Day Long —
we don't mean in all this that
we
obliged to
by word of Mouth or by the
of the Body for this is
in the
we are
enmediate Acts of Duty from
Day to Day, we
time in Sleep, But this need
not, yea Can't Break off our
fulne&slong;s
fulness
—As a
always whether he Sleeps or wakes
whether
is Still the Same
So a thankful Man is always
So —
Fourthly and
us
for
and any thing that we now
and Enjoy, and for all things t
we for
here we may be
to
which we are to give thanks to
god
Secondly for
Thirdly for Redemption
for
our Creation of our