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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. If your praying to God do indeed teach you the true way of being rich, as you say, how then cometh it to pass that you are so poor still? for you have prayed to God these twenty years and more, and I do not see that you have increased in riches ver• much, you are still poor: where be your Riches? where be you• flocks and herds of Cattle? where be your Clothes? what great Houses have you built? where be your fields of Corn, Barns an• Orchards? Alas, you are not like the English; and therefore • doubt upon this point, it is not as you say, that praying to Go• teacheth you the right way to be rich.
Kinsm. If your praying to God do indeed teach you the true way of being rich, as you say, how then cometh it to pass that you are so poor still? for you have prayed to God these twenty years and more, and I do not see that you have increased in riches ver• much, you are still poor: where be your Riches? where be you• flocks and herds of Cattel? where be your Clothes? what grea• Houses have you built? where be your fields of Corn, Barns an• Orchards? Alas, you are not like the English; and therefore • doubt upon this point, it is not as you say, that praying to Go• teacheth you the right way to be rich.
Pium. This is one of the least, the last, the lowest of those things that our Religion teacheth us. There be two sorts of riches; Earthly riches, of which only you speak, and Heavenly riches, which Gods Word calleth true riches. These Earthly riches are but temporary, and shall soon perish, but the true riches are heavenly, and eternal, they last for ever. And we have spent these twenty Years in seeking chiefly after heavenly riches, for so God commandeth us in his Word, Seek first the Kingdom of Heaven, as for these earthly riches they shall be added to you, so much as you need. And the Word of God commandeth us to be content if we have food and clothes; Now we have food and clothes more then we were wont to have before we prayed to God, and we have contented our selves therewith, and have bent our minds more to look after heavenly riches, and in those things we have increased more, then in earthly riches.