We the
Muhheacunnuk Tribe, will now manifiſt to
you — our opinions Deſires and veiws of the Chriſtian Religion.
we believe that there is but one, the only true and living God,
And
that he is the Maker and preſerver of our lives, and upholder of the
Same — that he has Send his only
begotten Son into this w
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Saviour of mankind, and we believe that this God has brought u
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in to this wilderneſs — where we might begin to Serve him in Sincerity
and in truth —
Further we believe that this God has raiſed you u
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have kept you alive untill this time. and that he has Send you up
as an Ambaſsador into this wilderneſs upon this purpoſe that you might
be the firſt
inſtrument or means to Stir up you own Nation — to try embrace
His whole
Religion. And the,
^resons^ why we have such thoughts becauſe we have
felt a great weight of your errand — And in coming such a
manner, and
from such a quarter — as we did not expect — when we look
back, and
Consider, what poor progreſs the Re
[illegible]ligion of Jeſus
Chriſt, has made
amongſt the Natives of this Continent not withſtanding
^of^ the great
pains, that have taken with them in some Places
the Indians appeared
well and promiſing, but soon decay. — and now it looks very dark
upon us, all helps from a Broad are gone — and we are now brought to
look about
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Conſider of our Situation and we bel
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this will be the laſt. that God will make a trial with us — if this w
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not set us to contrive for our own souls — God will leaves us to our
[illegible] own Deſtruction — Theſe and other conſiderations
induceth us — to believe
that God d
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require from our own hands — to contrive — and to
try to bigin to support and maintain Religion among us — we
therefore, a Number of
us chearfully agreed to begin to purſue
what we bilieve to be our Duty since we have felt and ex=
=perience the great goodneſs of God — for raiſing and fiting one of
our own Collour — to be inſtrumental to build up the Cauſe and
the Kingdom of our Lord Jeſus
Chriſt — we therefore feel in duty
[gap: tear][guess: boun]d to come to requeſt you to come and settle with us — and to
take the charge over us
— and to die with us. in Conjunction with
Brotherton if it be agreable to them. so that we may enjoy all the
Previlidges and ordinances of the Goſpel which our Saviour has
left us in his word — So we the Subſcribers wittingly to begin with
twenty shillings — in firſt year and so in proportion that we
shall increaſe in Number and Subſtance — till we shall be
able to support you fully — so we done at present what
we
feel to be our duty and the reſt
^we^ will submitt to Gods will
and pleaſure —