A general history of Connecticut - Ramapough Lenape Nation

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CON NEe T I C:U T. flSt tohe .has utterly' excluded' oratory frorn them; anq, did they not fpeak the Eng... Hili language in greater perfet1:ion than any other of the Americans, few ftrangers would difoblige them '.'Vith their com- pany. .Their various fyftems are founded upon thofe of Peters, Hooker, and Davenport, of which I have already fpoken; yet the modern teachers have made fo many new-fangled refinements in the doCtrine and difcipline of thofe patriarchs, and of one another, as render their paffion for ecclefiafiical innovation and tyranny. equally confpicuous.-But the whole are enveloped with fuperfrition, which here paires for religion, as much as it does in Spain, France, or among the favages. I will inltance that of an infant in 1761. Some children were piling fand-heaps in Hertford, when a boy, only four years old, hearing it thunder at a difiance, left his companions and ran home to his mother, crying out, l' Mother I
1.k II 1ST d It Y d P II Mother 1 mcither t give mc my book, .. for I heard God fpeaking to hmo" His" moth6r gave him his book, and he read A, B,Cj D, E,F, G, &c. then ga\te up his book, faying; -., Here, mother, take ClI my book; I rnufl: go to my {and.. ,- houfes: now I.am not afraid etI aU the ,.. thunder and light'rlrng inthe'WCHld." As to their government, we miy com" paTe- it to the regnhtity of a tilad mbb in'London; with this exceptton,.the mdr aCtS without laW', and thecokmiful by law. They teach· that legal nghteoofneiSis liot faving grace. Herein they are tight; but it appears' they believe not their oWIi doctrine: for legal dghteouf.. trefs is their only Jhield trlJd buckle,.. In January county court, at Hertford only; I!768, there were above 3000 fuits on the 'docket J and there are four of thefe tour'nJ' in a year, and perhaps never lefg fuit's at a court than toao. In the couree of thi& work, nty readers muil
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