Indian dialogues for their instruction in that great service of Christ, in calling home…

Name: Indian dialogues for their instruction in that great service of Christ, in calling home…
Author: John Eliot

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.

John Eliot 1604–1690Printed at Cambridge : s.n., 1671

[4], 81 [i.e. 75] p. · 40k words · Wing E513 · ESTC R40409

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Indian Dialogues. › Dialogue 1: DIALOG. I.

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Pium. Let us first give Thanks, and then we will discourse that point. Attend all. We do give humble thanks unto thy holy Name, O Lord our God, for our life, health, food, raiment; and for this present food whereby we are refreshed. We thank thee, O Lord, for the love we find among our friends, and for our freedom in good discourse for the good of our Souls: We do pray for a blessing upon both, what our food may strengthen our Bodies, and our discourse may do good to our Souls. Help me so to declare thy Word and thy Works, that I may win their Souls to love thee, and to forsake their sins, and turn unto the Lord by true Repentance. These, and all other mercies we pray for, in the Name, and for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

Pium. Let us first give Thanks, and then we will discourse that point. Attend all. We do give humble thanks unto thy holy Name, O Lord our God, for our life, health, food, raiment; and for this present food whereby we are refreshed. We thank thee, O Lord, for the love we finde among our friends, and for our freedome in good discourse for the good of our Souls: We do pray for a blessing upon both, what our food may strengthen our Bodies, and our discourse may do good to our Souls. Help me so to declare thy Word and thy Works, that I may win their Souls to love thee, and to forsake their sins, and turn unto the Lord by true Repentance. These, and all other mercies we pray for, in the Name, and for the sake of our Lord Iesus Christ. Amen.

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All. Tabat, tabat, tabat.

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Pium. Now my Kinsmen and Friends let us discourse a little about the Question propounded, Why we pray unto God before and after Meat? Our Lord Jesus Christ did so before meat, as it is written of him in many examples; and we are not to doubt but he did the same after meat, because the Lord hath commanded the same so expressly, saying, When thou hast eaten and art full, then beware lest thou forget the Lord. And to show you what great reason we have thus to do, consider that God doth some of his chief works in this world, in the matter of our eating, which no creature can do: for take you a Tray of meat, and ask, Who can turn this into blood, and flesh, and siew, and bones, and skin? and who can give every part of our body its due proportion, that one part shll not overgrow the other, but every part alike? Who but God can do this? And

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