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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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Wherefore he
we may at once Perceive from
words, the Infinite
de&slong;ention
descension
for we have willfully Departed from
god our Maker and in
Departing
from him, we Depart from our own
ne&slong;s
ness
Claim nothing at the Hands of god
Better
than Damnation, and god mig
have
Face, and when he had thoughts
of mercy he might have By us
and
Placed his love on the fallen Angels
who are greater in Power than men
they are
Better than we; But behold his
mercy is towards the fallen Children
of Adam,
and there is no other
Can be given why he does,
whom he will have Mercy and he
will have
will have
his hPity to us, is brought abou
in a way that Men or Angels
it
Death of his only
here is
Loved the World that he gave his
only ald
that
not
Life, this is good News good News
unto
that there is a Saviour given a migh
Saviour —
and in further Speaking upon
text I Shall Endeavour, as god Shall
help. to give
the Import of it, in
Several
and here
It Plainly
yea he is fallen Down Dead in
And here I Shall endeavour to
two Sorts of People in t
the one is Bealiever, and up
unbeliev
er, Yet Both are
The one is in a Dead Sleep, yet
not in a Dead Sleep but it is a
Sinful and abominable Sleep
The other is in a Dead Sleep
a very Dangerous Sleep, they Lie
by it —
But Secondly
this text Plainly
the Infinite Mercy of God to us; in
Sending his own Dear Son
to a
wake us out of this Dangerous yea
And
with the Improvement of the wh ole
and have
thing as Believers being
and when they are So, they are unfit
to Serve god. Yea they are
ing
ing
we Read of ten h
that were Slumbering and Sleeping
while the Bride
till there was a great Cry or a
Loud Call ma
Seems in Such a Language as
awake thou t
Ri&slong;e
riseand
for behold the Bridegroom Cometh
go ye out to meet him.
and then when they
heard this Voce
Heavenly-Voice, and
they
and when they Came to look about
order, their Lamps were d
they
fit to Meet the Bridegroom with —
and Now there is
and a wvery Short time to do it in
for the
Bridegroom is already i
the Ears of the
behold I Come quickly and my re
ward is with me, to give every man
according as his works Shall be —
is now on his way,
Doors, to
O! me think there was great
the Virgins at that
and further — to
of Truth, let us Compare l–
Sleep with Natural Sleep,
See what
be — and here, we know
experience and
a man, that is
ther unfit for t
he is not Doing the
Neighbours or his King. for he
has
So is a
Spiritually
again when a man is
he
all the Carryings
he is Ignorant of the
have, the News from
no
fellow
Neighbours either
So is a
knows not what a Sweet
&slong;ation
sationw one with
the other t
returns they have from
with god, or what
they have one with other nor
what Joys or Sorrows they
meet with
in their
like unto Thomas
the means of grace have but
the them —
Again a man t
is
many Danger's he is liable
to be taken by his Enemies —
a
So, is a n
t
they are liable to all Dangers
— — — watch
and Pray —
again a man t
Dream Dreams, They may have
they may Dream of
and Peace — —
of
ASo may a n
many things
Now let us Bring Peter as
an t
and See what was the fruit
of his Sleep, and t
has
and what was e
Now let us
of t
are in a Dead Sleep, Dead in
gerous Sleep, they are liable
to
all the
Death
of Hell forever, and in this State
and
for them
they have no life or
fore they Can't do the work of
god Acceptably, they
are Dea
and So all their Services are Dead
by
no
no right
heaven or Hell, they have
no fear of god; and no love
to him,
no
no love to his
to his Commandments Laws or
his Precepts
yea they have
fo things, Spiritual things are
of Charmers from
ing Never so
the Tender Bowels of
move them not, and the Dread
ful Thunders and
Lightnings of
gods
Sinai, Don't make them afraid —
and the
god, t
Lead them to
the
to
is
Sleep, they have no heart
for Heart for god or
Doesn't this greatly argue
the
Stupidity and
Souls. — — and
ly
lys
Sleep they
pery Places
they are liable to be Cut
Sunder
sunder
Tree, and every Tree t
eth not good fruit, Shall
be hewn Down and
to
And Secondly and
this Text
tion
sion
Name alone is Jehovah, in
Sending his own Son into the
world,
after our willful
po&slong;ta&slong;ie
postasywthat
&slong;oever
soever
Life — here is Love indeed
god
to Save them. and the Son freely
work Redemption
the Dear Lamb of god Leaves
the
As it were bids farewell to all
the Heavenly
Down to this benighted World
like our own ,— took upon him
the Iniquity of the
of men ,—
of man that we the Sinfu l
r
come the Sons of the living
god — he
his Life. and Died the
they
t
Alive unto god —
all this was done to
t
ly
a glorious
I Conclude you havet
y those t
Shall give thee Light —
To Conclude
let us Improve the whole
and
have heard, that there is as
Such a thing
as ns
mbring
mbering
and if thou
hear the Voice of
and obey,
your Lamps, and
give you Light, — for all
thy Work is to do —
and
behold the
go ye out to meet him
and
Hear e
word, — in the s
In his Laws Precepts and
&slong;titutions
stitutionsordernances
In the
of e
In
e
In the Providence of god
In mercy
— in health t
In
O! Sleeper isn't here Enough
to awake you, hear the
of
ri&slong;e
rise
ne&slong;s
nessee
to the
1
Cor
Luke 15
and ye all Receive the
of glorious Light, of Life
and light at
venly
Revel — Behold I Come
My friends we are not to live here
only to gratify our Carnal isences
But the great End of our Being
is to glorify god,
our futur
our Behaviour in this life
according as we behave in this
World So Shall our Rewards be
in the World to Come
Here
I Shall
of Text 1 There
and thent Improve the W
by
way of Inquiry —
Saints — and then to Sinners