A key into the language of America, or, An help to the language of the natives in that part of America called New-England together with briefe observations of the customes, manners and worships, &c. of the aforesaid natives, in peace and warre, in life and death : on all which are added spirituall observations, generall and particular, by the authour ... / by Roger Williams ...
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A key into the language of America, or, An help to the language of the natives in that part of America called New-England together with briefe observations of the customes, manners and worships, &c. of the aforesaid natives, in peace and warre, in life and death : on all which are added spirituall observations, generall and particular, by the authour ... / by Roger Williams ...
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Williams, Roger, 1604?-1683.
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London :: Printed by Gregory Dexter,
1643.
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Subject terms
Narragansett Indians.
Narragansett language.
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"A key into the language of America, or, An help to the language of the natives in that part of America called New-England together with briefe observations of the customes, manners and worships, &c. of the aforesaid natives, in peace and warre, in life and death : on all which are added spirituall observations, generall and particular, by the authour ... / by Roger Williams ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A66450.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 12, 2025.
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Observation generall of the VVeather.
That Judgement which the Lord Jesu•…•… pronounced against the Weather-wise (bu•…•… ignorant of the God of the weather) will fal•…•… most justly upon those Natives, and all me•…•… who are wise in Naturall things, but willing∣ly blind in spirituall.
English and Indians spie a Storme.and seeke a hiding place:O hearts of stone that thinke and dreame.Th'everlasting stormes t'out-face.
Proud filthy Sodome saw the Sunne,Shine 〈◊〉〈◊〉 her head most bright.
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The very day that turn'd she wasTo stincking heaps, 'fore night.
How many millions now alive,VVithin few yeeres shall rot?O blest that Soule, whose portion is,That Rocke that changeth not.
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