Sketches from Formosa.

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with one shoulder ;
and all differences and envies amongst
them may be removed farre away, Isai. n. 9. Zeph. 3. 9.
John 17. 21, 23. And fourthly for all the Ends before-
said, that the fullnesse of the Gentiles might come in, and
that so all Israel (the remainder of Naturall Israel being
thereby provoked to emulation) might be saved, Rom. n.
i, n, 25, 26. Luke 21. 24. For which glorious time on
Earth, the very creature (which hath no hope of Heaven)
groaning and being in travell, earnestly expecting, waits
for, being subject to vanitie, untill that Glorious Libertie
of the Sonnes of God : How much more may wee, whose
Soules are alreadie freed, wait for that appointment for
his Sonnes, the freedome of our Bodies also from all
Thraldome ? as Rom. 8. 19-23.
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Therefore, what great matter of refreshing was ad-
ministered to my Spirit, when it was credibly reported
by M. Edw : Cresset, (then of Chelsey, now of London)
that some thousands of Indians had of late beene converted,
by meanes of a Dutch Minister conversing amongst them !
What hopes were hereby raysed, that the Fulnesse of the
Gentiles was readie to come in, and thereby of enjoying
my Soules longings shortly ! I delayed not therefore
to goe to Chelsey, to heare of this more fully from himselfe ;
a man well reported of, and well knowne to M. Lawrence,
of the House of Commons; and to M. Nye, M. Thomas
Goodwin, and M. Simon, and M. Bridge, lately of the
Assembly : I found, that he and his household lived there,
but himselfe, by a Providence, was then abroad : En-
quiring therefore of Mistris Cresset, she certified as
folioweth ; which I writ downe :
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That her Husband and she (with their Family]
came lately from Delft in Holland, where M. Junius
was then living, and of good repute among the Ministers
and best People there. He told, of above foure thousand
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Indians that were brought to confesse Christ, and were