Obs: While they are amongst the English they keep on the English apparell, but pull off all, as soone as they come againe into their owne Houses, and Company. _Generall Observations of their Garments._ How deep are the purposes and Councells of God? What should bee the reason of this mighty difference of One mans children that all the Sonnes of men on this side the way (in Europe, Asia and Africa,) should have such plenteous clothing for Body, for soule! and the rest of Adams sonnes and Daughters on the other side, or America (some thinke as big as the other three,) should neither have nor desire clothing for their naked Soules, or Bodies. More particular: 1. O what a Tyrant’s custome long, How doe men make a push, At what’s in use, though ne’re so fowle, Without once shame or blush? 2. Many thousand proper Men and Women, I have seen met in one place: Almost all naked, yet not one, Thought want of clothes disgrace. 3. Israell was naked, wearing clothes! } The best clad English-man, } Not cloth’d with Christ, more naked is } Ex. 32. Than naked Indian. } CHAP. XXI. _Of Religion, the Soule, &c._ Manìt-manittówock, God, Gods. Obs: He that questions whether God made the World, the Indians will teach him. I must acknowledge I have received in my converse with them, many Confirmations of those two great points, Heb. 11. 6. viz: 1. That God is. 2. That hee is a rewarder of all them that diligently seek him. They will generally confesse that God made all: but then in speciall, although they deny not that Englishmans God made English Men, and the Heavens and Earth there! yet their Gods made them, and the Heaven, and the Earth where they dwell. Nummus quauna-mùckqun manit, God is angry with me. Obs: I heard a poore Indian lamenting the losse of a child at break of day, call up his Wife and children, and all about him to Lamentation, and with abundance of teares cry out! O God thou hast taken away my child: thou art angry with me: O turne thine anger from me, and spare the rest of my children. If they receive any good in hunting, fishing, Harvest, &c. they acknowledge God in it. Yea, if it be but an ordinary accident, a fall, &c. they will say God was angry and did it. Musquantum manit, God is angry. But herein is their Misery. First, they branch their Godhead into many Gods. Secondly, attribute it to Creatures. First, many Gods: they have given me the Names of thirty-seven, which I have, all which in their solemne Worships they invocate: as, Kautántowwit, The great South West God, to whose House all soules goe, and from whom came their Corne, Beanes, as they say. Wompanànd, The Easterne God. Chekesuwànd, The Westerne God.