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<p>The Following is an account of the Exercise & Experience of an Indian<lb/>
Man as Related by him self to a Number of Friends, says I Dont often open<lb/>
my mind to any, but I now feel the way is open. and more than a freedom to<lb/>
Do it some years Past it was laid upon me to Encourage others to Do well;<lb/> I
thought I was a Poore ignorant Indian, I could not Encourage others to Do<lb/>
well, so I shoved it away (Puting his hand out as tho he had Put it from
him,<lb/> then fetching his hand back again & laying it on his breast, says
it was brought back<lb/> again & laid upon me, I then shoved it away again,
& so he Did a number of times<lb/> Implying the reasoning state of his Mind
It was then opened to my view, that<lb/> the truth was a Very precious thing,
very precious Indeed. Oh how Precious it Doth look<lb/> to me. He can say it is
innocent, we can say it is Innocent, thats all we can say.<lb/> words cannot say
half. I then said with Peter Depart from me O Lord, I am<lb/> a sinful man but
it was brought back & laid upon me again some<lb/> morning as I was going to
a <orgName key="presby">Prespeterian</orgName> meeting I saw a flock of sheep
along<lb/> before me Puting his hand to his Eyes, says I Did not see them with
these Eyes.<lb/> they appeard to be traveling a long before me. the foremost
ones was half grown<lb/> large, & I heard them talking to one another.
Puting his hand to his Ears says but<lb/> not with those Ears saying to one
another God speed help you on the way, the<lb/> hindmost looked Poore, small,
their heads hund Down seemed allmost ready to<lb/> give out I wondered what it
should mean Then something come & talked<lb/> with me Puting his hand to his
Breast, says it talked to me here, and told<lb/> me, these are my sheep &
this Day you shall see them lift up their heads in<lb/> hope, & feed on the
bread of Life Then it said to me, them that are before are<lb/> the Priest &
Deacons, they are grown fat & full, they can Encourage one an<lb/> others
but they forget the Poore of the flock. I went on to the meeting, the<lb/>
Priest Preached, Prayed, & sung & used the Very words, I heard the fat
sheep<lb/> use one to another, And after he had Done, I thought it my Duty to
tell them<lb/> what I see on the way; so I Did & thought I saw my Vision
fulfilled, the Poore<lb/> of the flock, lifted up their heads in hope & fed
on the bread of Life, the<lb/> Priest acknowledged in the Presence of the
People, that what I said was True<lb/> and that the Truth, had been Declared
among them by a Poore Ignorant <gap/><lb/> an; Then I went home Very
comfortable, Oh, how comfortable I Did feel<lb/> Then sometimes I feel my mind
Drawn in to simpathy with some, I want to<lb/> go & see them, I was <gap/>
yet would think it <gap/> other to Do well,<lb/> I Did not want folks to think
so I feel such a simpathy for one poore family<lb/> I want to go see them, at I
Did not no how to Do, so I thought I would take a<lb/> grist on my back & go
<gap/> beyond where they Live, so I Did, & when I come<lb/> back I stop in,
It was just night, there was a rich man lived on the other side<lb/> of the
road, I suppose I would let me have bed to sleep in, but I thought I<lb/> had
rather lay by the <gap/> mans fire, I felt their worth, I wanted to be with
them,<lb/> In the morning when I <gap/> going away I asked the women to hand me
a bowle<lb/> she was <unclear>unarilling</unclear> I <gap/> the most, she got
one for <gap/> I took out Part of my<lb/> meal & left it with her, felt the
wants of the Poore Children, so that <gap/> are not<lb/> carry all my meal away
<gap/> then I took leave of them & went home Quietly.</p>
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<p>And <unclear>so</unclear> kept along when I feel my mind in simpathy with any, I
try some<lb/> way to go & see them, <gap/> began to think I was geting along
Prety well, soone Day I was<lb/> thinking I should go to meeting 3 or 4 Days
hence, I began to think what I should say<lb/> when I should come there, so I
thought It over, I got something fixed in my mind, I<lb/> thought it would Do
Prety well, I hung it up, & by & by I took it looked at it again<lb/> I
thought it would Do very well, <del>I hung it up</del> so I Did good many times
before meeting Day come<lb/> I went to meeting & after the Priest got
through, I stood up & said it off as well as I could<lb/> and I thought I
said it off Prety well, but Oh how I was Distress & so I Passed along a
long<lb/> time, Did not know what the matter was Then something come &
talked to me & says, Did<lb/> you ever know a Great man if he want Great
Business Done away to Congress, or to<lb/>
<placeName>Philadelphia</placeName> to send a Poore ignorant unlerned man to Do
it No I say I Did not,<lb/> No more wont Great Spirit take you well I thought
sure Enough I have been mista<lb/>ken I never have known what good is, And Oh,
how I was Distress, but Did not<lb/> know where to find good (This he supposed
to be the bad spirit coming at a time<lb/> when he had mised it at the
Endeavouring to Persuade him, that he never had kno<lb/>wn what good was, Then
says somthing <unclear>& he</unclear> come & talked me, which he
sup<lb/>posed was the good spirit, and says Great One knows all things, he can
Do all<lb/> things, he knows what is Best, And if a King want great business
Done, & he has<lb/> servents under him, if he wants to send one to Do
business for him, if he is a wise<lb/> Learned man, he ought to say what the
King tell him to say, if he is an ignorant<lb/> unlerned man, if he can talk, he
can say over after the King, just what the<lb/> King tell him to say, if it 2, 3
or 4 words more or less just as the King says<lb/> just so he ought to say Then
it says to one supose one of your neighbour<lb/> have a Piece of <gap/> to him,
a very <unclear>got</unclear> when it was give<lb/> to him, he takes it, feels
of it, looks at it; handles it; hangs it up, then by & by<lb/> he takes it
Down, he feels of it, handles it, looks at it; hangs it up, so he Do a<lb/>
great many times, & keep it 3 or 4 Days, til it begins to stink, then he
take<lb/> it, cook it & set before you, to Eat, would you Eat it no I say I
would not<lb/> Eat it well it says just so your Preaching was the other Day The
Great<lb/> spirit wont have it <unclear>folk</unclear> wont have it Then it came
in to my<lb/> mind the Passage when there was a Piece of money brought to our
<unclear>savious</unclear><lb/> I Don't remember he asked them whose Image
& Inscription was on it<lb/> They told him <gap/> well he told them to
render to ceasars the things that<lb/> are cesars, & to God things that are
God <gap/> I see my Parking had<lb/> Cesar <unclear>inserption</unclear> on it
Because it was something of any own Prepareing<lb/> it Did not come from the
Great Spirit, therefore it had not his superscripti<lb/>on on it, & he would
not have it, & that was the reason I was so troubled; I see<lb/> that Every
thing of mans contrivance had cesar superscription on it<lb/> and only that,
that comes Immediately from the Great Spirit, that would return<lb/> to him, or
that would be food for his True sheep, my <gap/> says christ know any<lb/>
<gap/> & they follow but the Voice of a stranger they will not follow<lb/> I
thought some time heard a strange Voice, Puting his hand to his Breast<lb/> says
Did not feel <gap> </gap> I love to feel it here then</p><pb n="3" facs="SW_NYYM_Man_Page_003"/>
<p>Then it opened in my mind the Passage where the multitude followed our
<unclear>savior</unclear><lb/> in to the <gap/>, the disciples seemed
willing to send them away & give them no<lb/>thing; but he knew their wants,
he Did not want them to <gap/> by the way he<lb/> caled on the Disciples, &
asked them if they had any thing for them, they say we have<lb/> a few loves
& a few fishes, but what are they among so many, but he knew what<lb/> he
was going to Do, he Directed that the multitude should all sit Down in
compane<lb/> on the grass; then he caled on the Disciples & they give all up
to him that they<lb/> had, then he took & broke it, & Blessed it; then
gave it to the Disciples, after all this<lb/> was Done, then he Commanded them
to hand it to the Multitude, then it was food for<lb/> them, they had Enough to
spare Just so I see it is now, when the Great spi<lb/>rit is Pleased to brake
the bread of life, hand it to his Disciples, & Command them to<lb/> hand it
to the People, then it is food for them Now after this it was Laid upon<lb/> me
again to Encourage othersto Do well, but the work looked to be so great, &
I<lb/> felt like such a Poore Ignorant Indian, that I thought I could not give
up to it<lb/> And said to that that talked with one there is a great many that
can do better<lb/> than I can, take some this one & Excuse one, It asked me
who; I said such a<lb/> one, it told one to fetch him up, I Did in any mind
Putting his hand to his breast<lb/> as tho he brought it to the witness in him
self, but he would not have him, but<lb/> shoved him away & so in this way
he said he broought up a number, but he<lb/> would not have them, & told me
I must give up Now I found the Great<lb/> Spirit condescended to <gap/> weak
state & opened things to my understanding in<lb/> a way to meet my capacity
so I found it was necessary to wait upon him<lb/> to be instructed, what to say,
how to say, & when <gap/> and when I could say <gap/><lb/> the servents that
was sent out to Invite in to the feast, It is Done Lord as those<lb/> commanded
& yet there is room, then I find there is yet room for more Exercise<lb/>
more labour, more Invitation, the way is not shut up in any Heart<lb/>
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<p>Then it opened in my mind the circumstance of Joseph, how he was sold by<lb/> his
brethren, & the reason why they sold him, he was Designd by the great<lb/>
spirit to be greater then his brethren, he had some Dreams that seamed to<lb/>
lead them to think so, some of them had a mind to kill him, others thought<lb/>
best to sell him, & see what would become of his Dreams, so they sold him,
he<lb/> was carried <del>Down</del> of to Egypt, & Put into Prison,
wrongfully, but the Great spi<lb/>rit was with him there & knew what he was
a going to bring abought<lb/>
<gap/> get along Pretty well for a while, there was some<lb/>body in Prison with
Joseph, and he was released, & Joseph told him when<lb/> he come in the
Presence of the King to remember him, but he forgot Jo<lb/>seph till he was
brought into a strait, the King had some Dreams<lb/> I cannot read much, I
cannot tell just how it was, but I remember he<lb/> Dreamed something about some
Ears of corn, Eating up some Ears of<lb/>corn, & there nobody could
Interpret his Dreams, then this man<lb/> remembered Joseph, he was sent for, the
Great Spirit was with him & knowed<lb/> all things, so he could tell the
King the interpretation of his Dreams
</p><pb n="4" facs="SW_NYYM_Man_Page_004"/>
<p>So when he told him what was a going to <gap/> the King believed it<lb/> and
thought it best to Prepare against the time of Famine, that Joseph<lb/> said was
coming, & he thought there was no one so suitable as Joseph<lb/> because the
Great Spirit was with him, so he put all Power in to his hand<lb/> only the King
was greater, so Joseph ordered store houses to be built & laid<lb/> up Corn
for the time of famine that was coming & he had the Keys of the<lb/> stores,
now the famine come, his brethren come to want, they had sold<lb/> Joseph, &
Did not intend to bow to him, but they heard there was corn in<lb/> Egypt, their
father sent some of them Down to buy some, they applyed to Joseph<lb/> he knew
them, they Did not know him, he asked if they had any brethren &
whe<lb/>ther they had a Father living, they told him about them, so after a
while Joseph<lb/> sent for them, they all went Down & bowed to Joseph, for
there was no other way for<lb/> them to kept alive Now it looked Plain to me,
that we have a measure of<lb/> the good spirit afforded to lead us to Instruct
us & it is greater then we are & de<lb/>signed to Rule over us, or we
may Do as that tells us, or we may mind the bad spirit<lb/> But if we Do, it
will not yeald the Peaceable fruits of rightiousness, & we may say<lb/> to
the good spirit, we will not have this man to rule over us, we may Put it
away<lb/> and sell it, & it may be Put into Prison, yet a famine will
overtake there, & though<lb/> they may go into a far Country, far away from
that, that is Right, & and not Even<lb/> know Joseph or this good spirit,
yet that will know them, & it will there rise<lb/> up & Plead with them,
now there is no other way, but to go back again to that; that<lb/> is wright,
& acknowledge Joseph to be greatest he has all Power Commited to him<lb/> he
has the Keys of <gap/>, & they that will not <gap/> him, must Die.</p>
<p>The same Disposition, that was in Josephs Brethren, and in People in the<lb/>
Days of the Apostles, is now in People, I have seen some folks, so simple, that
they<lb/> got mad with a gun & Broke it all to Pieces, because it had Done
some Mischief,<lb/> as tho the Gun was to blame, if it had not been Charged,
& then fire Put to it,<lb/> it would not; Done any harm, so when the
apostles were Charged with some<lb/>thing & the Fire of Divine love operated
on them, her they could Do Execution<lb/> but after it had Passed through them,
they were like the Emty Gun, it was<lb/> not they that Did it; it was that flame
of Divine love & here the People<lb/> took the apostles, & Put them to
Death, as tho they Done it, & thought to<lb/> stop it from spreading, but
they could not, for <unclear>it operated</unclear> through
<unclear>otherng</unclear><lb/> And it operates the <gap/> purpose
<gap/><lb/> PL</p>
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