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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. Your words do put a fear into my heart, I know that old customs of sin are very hardly left, and I have been so long accustomed to sin, that I am afraid of my self.
Pen. Your words do put a fear into my heart, I know that old customes of sin are very hardly left, and I have been so long accustomed to sin, that I am afraid of my self.
Wab. Fear is a good watchman; Happy is the man that feare•• always: and let this put you on to a second Counsel that I give you, Be much and often in prayer, and that not only among othe• in Family-worship, and Public-worship, but also, and most frequently in secret prayer, for so Christ hath commanded, Mat. 6•• and Christ himself hath set us an example, who spent whole nights in prayer.
Wab. Fear is a good watchman; Happy is the man that feare•• alwayes: and let this put you on to a second Counsel that I giv• you, Be much and often in prayer, and that not onely among othe• in Family-worship, and Publick-worship, but also, and most frequently in secret prayer, for so Christ hath commanded, Mat. 6•• and Christ himself hath set us an example, who spent whole nights in prayer.
Pen. The night spent in prayer hath let me find a sweet taste in it, though I do already find that it is a weariness to my flesh. I thank you for this Counsel, I desire I may remember and do it. What further Counsel will you give me?