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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. I never heard so much before, nor thought of thes• things; but now you declare and teach them, my heart saith, tha• all is true which you say, and I now see great reason for this practise of you that pray to God, to pray and give thanks both before and after meat: and I see not but that there is good and just re••son so to do, every time we drink, and take in any sustenance, a• l•ast to lift up our hearts to God, who hath so eminent an hand i• doing us good thereby, or hurt if he will.
Kinsm. I never heard so much before, nor thought of thes• things; but now you declare and teach them, my heart saith, tha• all is true which you say, and I now see great reason for this practise of you that pray to God, to pray and give thanks both befor• and after meat: and I see not but that there is good and just re••son so to do, every time we drink, and take in any sustenance, a• l•ast to lift up our hearts to God, who hath so eminent an hand i• doing us good thereby, or hurt if he will.
Pium. Your acceptance and approbation of what I say, and […] what we do in this point, is a great argument that God doth bo• your heart to pray unto God; for you acknowledge it to be o•• duty so to do, and the neglect of it would be against the light o• your own Reason: so that this Conviction hath cast a chain upon your soul, to bind you to pray unto God. What say you m friends?