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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
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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. Nothing that is holy just and good is impossible with God; and therefore to show you God hath done this, know, that God hath done it himself, and whatever God hath done is holy just and good.
Wab. Nothing that is holy just and good is impossible with God; and therefore to shew you God hath done this, know, that God hath done it himself, and whatever God hath done is holy just and good.
Pen. But I pray tell me how this can be: Oh how I long to hear of this way of deliverance of a poor sinner out of the hands of Gods holy Justice and unchangeable Law.
Wab. I will (as well as I c•n) declare it unto you. God is One in Three; Father, Son, and Holy Ghost: which we must believe and admire, though we cannot demonstrate. I shall at this time say no further of that point, only thus much; God one in Essence, in his infinite Wisdom and Understanding, conceiveth the Image of himself as the only adequate object of his infinite wisdom. God conceiving is the Father: God conceived is the Son; this intellectual act of conceiving, is called Begetting: God conceiving, and God conceived, by an infinite act of volition, lov••h himself; and this Love is the holy Ghost, proceeding from th• Father and the Son. God as he is Father hath made all ••ings, and given man a Law. God in the dispensation of the Covenant of Works hath agreed within himself that the Son of God should assume unto himself an humane Nature, which is subject unto the Law of God. This glorious Person is God and Man in one Person, named Jesus Christ. This glorious Person Jesus Christ, is a Person of more worth then all Mankind beside. This glorious Person Jesus Christ came into this world, and offered to God by Covenant his own life in our stead, and died for us to satisfy divine Justice for the sin of man: with this Sacrifice God hath said he is