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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.
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.
A••. You say very true. Ha, ha, he!
Pium. Hearken to me, my friends, and see if I do not give a clear answer unto this seeming difficulty. Your dogs take as much delight in these Meetings, and the same kinds of delight as you ⟨p. 7⟩do; they delight in each others company; they provoke each other to lust, and enjoy the pleasures of lust as you do; they eat and play and sleep as you do▪ what joys have you more then d•gs have? to delight the body of f•••h and blood. But all mankind have an higher and better part then the body, we have a Soul, and that Soul shall never die: Our Soul is to converse with G•d, and to converse in such things as do concern G•d, and Heaven, and an eternal estate, either in happiness with God, if we walk with •im and serve him in this life, or in misery a•d torment with the Devil, if we serve him in this life. The service of God doth con••st in Virtue, and Wisdom, and delights of the Soul, which will reach to Heaven, and abide for ever. But the service of the Devil is in committing sins of the flesh, which defile both body and soul, and reach to Hell, and will turn all to fire and flame to torment your souls and bodies to all eternity. Now consider, all your pleasures and delights are such as defile you with sin, and will turn to flame, to burn and torment you; they provoke God to wrath, who hath created the Prison of Hell to torment you, and the more you have took pleasur• in sin, the greater are your offences against God, and the greater shall be your torments. But we that pray to G•d repent of our old sins, and by fith in Christ we seek for, and find a pardon of what is past, ad grace and strength to reform for time to come. So that our joys re Soul-joys in godliness, and virtue, and hope of glory in another world when we die. Your joys are bodily, fleshly, such as Dogs have, and will all turn to flames in Hell to torment you.