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Indian dialogues for their instruction in that great service of Christ, in calling home…
Indian dialogues for their instruction in that great service of Christ, in calling home their country-men to the knowledge of God, and of themselves, and of Jesus Christ.Indian dialogues for their instruction in that great service of Christ, in calling home their country-men to the knowledge of God, and of themselves, and of Iesus Christ.
Printed at Cambridge : s.n., 1671
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Sont. But why do you say that we feed upon trash, st•• ⟨p. 19⟩meat and poison? wherein doth our food differ from yours, and wherein do you in that respect excel us?
Pium. In bodily food we differ not from you; but it is Soul food I speak of. We feed our Souls with the Word of God and Prayer; you feed and satiate your Souls with lust, lying, stealing, Sabbath-breaking, and such like sins: and I appeal to your own Conscience, whether these are not trash and filthiness; and what fruit can you expect from such actions, but punishment and wrath?
Pauwau. Let me add a few words to give check to your highflown confidence in your new Way, and new Laws, and to your deep censoriousness of our old Ways, the pleasancy and delight whereof, every one, both man, woman and child can judge of; and we cannot but dislike to have such pleasant Delights taken from us. Tear our hair from our heads, our skin from our flesh, our flesh from our bones, you shall as soon persuade us to suffer you to do so by us, as to persuade us to part with our old delights and courses. You tell us of the English-man's God, and of his Laws: We have Gods also, and more then they; and we have Laws also by which our forefathers did walk, and why should not we do as they have done? To change our Gods, and Laws, and Customs, are great things, and not easily to be obtained and accomplished. Let us alone, that we may be quiet in the ways which we like and love, as we let you alone in your Changes and new Ways.
Pauwau. Let me adde a few words to give check to your highflown confidence in your new Way, and new Laws, and to your deep censoriousness of our old Wayes, the pleasancy and delight whereof, every one, both man, woman and childe can judge of; and we cannot but dislike to have such pleasant Delights taken from us. Tear our hair from our heads, our skin from our flesh, our flesh from our bones, you shall as soon perswade us to suffer you to do so by us, as to perswade us to part with our old delights and courses. You tell us of the English-man's God, and of his Laws: We have Gods also, and more then they; and we have Laws also by which our forefathers did walk, and why should not we do as they have done? To change our Gods, and Laws, and Customs, are great things, and not easily to be obtained and accomplished. Let us alone, that we may be quiet in the wayes which we like and love, as we let you alone in your Changes and new Wayes.