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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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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.
Kinsm. I perceive you have quite left off those delights and solemnities that your Country men use, and which you were in your young time accustomed to, because you have forgot the meaning of such noises. There is a great Dancing, and Sacrifice, and Play, and that is the noise that you hear.
Pium. You say right, we have indeed quite left off and cast away those works of darkness for we have great light shining among us, which discovers the filth and folly of those things; as when a light is set up in a dark room, in a dark night, it discovereth all the dirty corners of the house, and all the evil actions, that are wont to be done in the dark, without discovery. We plainly see the sinfulness of our own former, and of your still continued ways; and I desire that God would help me to open among you some of the Divine Light which God hath showed us, that it may shame you from such filthy practices and shine them away for ever as the rising Sun doth dissipate and drive away all the darkness of the night, and maketh Wolves, Bears, and all other wild beasts hide themselves in thickets, and not dare to be seen in the daylight.
Pium. You say right, we have indeed quite left off and cast away those works of darkness for we have great light shining among us, which discovers the filth and folly of those things; as when a light is set up in a dark room, in a dark night, it discovereth all the dirty corners of the house, and all the evil actions, that are wont to be done in the dark, without discovery. We plainly see the sinfulness of our own former, and of your still continued wayes; and I desire that God would help me to open among you some of the Divine Light which God hath shewed us, that it may shame you from such filthy practices and shine them away for ever as the rising Sun doth dissipate and drive away all the darkness of the night, and maketh Wolves, Bears, and all other wilde beasts hide themselves in thickets, and not dare to be seen in the daylight.