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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.
Pen. I feel my heart to answer your words like an echo; m• heart answers, All these things I desire to pray for. But alas, • am ignorant of fit words in prayer, and therefore I do request o• you, first do you pray, and set me a pattern. Waban prayeth
Pen. I feel my heart to answer your words like an eccho; m• heart answers, All these things I desire to pray for. But alas, • am ignorant of fit words in prayer, and therefore I do request o• you, first do you pray, and set me a pattern. Waban prayeth•
Pen. Many whole nights have I spent waking, sometime in hun••ing, sometime worse, in dancing and other sinful revels; but • never spent a night so well in my life before: it is the first nigh• of my new life; I have begun to live well, oh how full of fea•, and care and desire my heart is, that I may go on according to thi• good beginning. I hope the sweet savour of this good beginning to live well, shall abide with me, and I desire your help and counsel how I may so perform it.
Wab. Our state in this world is not perfect, corruption is killed but in part; there be old roots remaining, which upon occasion offered will still be stirring, acting, appearing, as a tree that is cut down, the old roots will be growing, which must be kept dow with a speedy cutting off. A field that is well weeded, will quickly produce new weeds again, out of that natural propensity of the earth to bring forth weeds; but a watchful and diligent husbandman will be often weeding over his Corn fields: and so will ou hearts be sending forth new weeds of sin, but we must be daily diligent to watch and weed them out; our hearts have a natural propensity to sin, and therefore must be kept with all diligence. An therefore that is the first counsel that I give you, out of the experience of my own naughty heart.