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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.
Indian Dialogues. › Dialogue 2: DIALOG. II. About calling home poor INDIANS.
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.
Wab. True, no Creature is able to deliver us, vain is the help of Man or Angel in this case. As you said before, your mournings, crie• a•d tears cannot do it, none but God himself can do it; and ⟨p. 29⟩your heart will say and yield that God himself can do it: Isa. 55.9. As heaven is above earth, so are Gods thoughts above ours.
Pen. Yea, that I can freely yield unto, that God himself can do it; what cannot he do? but will the offend•d just and holy God pacify himself for my offences, and pardon so great a sinner as I? God is just and holy, and how can it stand with his holy Justice to pardon a vile sinner, without satisfaction to his holy Justice? will the holy God cease to be just? will •e abrogate and disannul his holy Law, which I have so often, so deeply, so rebelliously broken? I have some hope, because you say it is so, but I see not yet how it can be, for God is Unchangeable.
Pen. Yea, that I can freely yield unto, that God himself can do it; what cannot he do? but will the offend•d just and holy God p•cifie himself for my offences, and pardon so great a sinner as I? God is just and holy, and how can it stand with his holy Justice to pardon a vile sinner, without satisfaction to his holy Justice? will the holy God cease to be just? will •e abrogate and disanul his holy Law, which I have so often, so deeply, so rebelliously broken? I have some hope, because you say it is so, but I see not yet how it can be, for God is Unchangeable.