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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Account of the Exercise and Experiences of an Indian Man

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Then it opened in my mind the Passage where the multitude followed our savior
in to the , the disciples seemed willing to send them away & give them no
thing; but he knew their wants, he Did not want them to by the way he
caled on the Disciples, & asked them if they had any thing for them, they say we have
a few loves & a few fishes, but what are they among so many, but he knew what
he was going to Do, he Directed that the multitude should all sit Down in compane
on the grass; then he caled on the Disciples & they give all up to him that they
had, then he took & broke it, & Blessed it; then gave it to the Disciples, after all this
was Done, then he Commanded them to hand it to the Multitude, then it was food for
them, they had Enough to spare Just so I see it is now, when the Great spi
rit is Pleased to brake the bread of life, hand it to his Disciples, & Command them to
hand it to the People, then it is food for them Now after this it was Laid upon
me again to Encourage othersto Do well, but the work looked to be so great, & I
felt like such a Poore Ignorant Indian, that I thought I could not give up to it
And said to that that talked with one there is a great many that can do better
than I can, take some this one & Excuse one, It asked me who; I said such a
one, it told one to fetch him up, I Did in any mind Putting his hand to his breast
as tho he brought it to the witness in him self, but he would not have him, but
shoved him away & so in this way he said he broought up a number, but he
would not have them, & told me I must give up Now I found the Great
Spirit condescended to weak state & opened things to my understanding in
a way to meet my capacity so I found it was necessary to wait upon him
to be instructed, what to say, how to say, & when and when I could say
the servents that was sent out to Invite in to the feast, It is Done Lord as those
commanded & yet there is room, then I find there is yet room for more Exercise
more labour, more Invitation, the way is not shut up in any Heart

Then it opened in my mind the circumstance of Joseph, how he was sold by
his brethren, & the reason why they sold him, he was Designd by the great
spirit to be greater then his brethren, he had some Dreams that seamed to
lead them to think so, some of them had a mind to kill him, others thought
best to sell him, & see what would become of his Dreams, so they sold him, he
was carried Down of to Egypt, & Put into Prison, wrongfully, but the Great spi
rit was with him there & knew what he was a going to bring abought
get along Pretty well for a while, there was some
body in Prison with Joseph, and he was released, & Joseph told him when
he come in the Presence of the King to remember him, but he forgot Jo
seph till he was brought into a strait, the King had some Dreams
I cannot read much, I cannot tell just how it was, but I remember he
Dreamed something about some Ears of corn, Eating up some Ears of
corn, & there nobody could Interpret his Dreams, then this man
remembered Joseph, he was sent for, the Great Spirit was with him & knowed
all things, so he could tell the King the interpretation of his Dreams