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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.
DIALOG. I.
Kinsman. Piumbuhhou. Speakers.
Kinsman. Well met, and welcome beloved Cousin, I am glad you are still alive; can you make shift to live in that new way of living that you have taken up at Natick? I am glad of your coming, because I shall thereby have an opportunity to be informed truly of your ways, and what your doings be, about which there be such various reports, some commending, some condemning, some deriding, some wondering; but so far as I see few desire to imitate you.
Kinsman. WEll met, and welcome beloved Cousin, I am glad you are still alive; can you make shift to live in that new way of living that you have taken up at Natik? I am glad of your coming, because I shall thereby have an opportunity to be informed truly of your wayes, and what your doings be, about which there be such various reports, some commending, some condemning, some deriding, some wondering; but so far as I see few desire to imitate you.
Pium. I am very glad that God hath guided my way so well, so that I should meet you, whom I have longed to see: you are my friend whom I purposed first to look out, and lo God hath ordered us to meet each other, at my first coming to your Town. Likewise I am glad that you are so desirous to speak with me about our Religion, and praying to God, for that is the very Errand I come upon, that I might persuade you to do as we do. I am like a friend that have found honey, and plenty of food, and I come to call my friends to come partake with me. But what noise is this that I hear?