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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 sevice 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. : [Seven lines from Malachi]Indian dialogues, for their instruction in that great sevice of Christ, in calling home their country-men to the knowledge of God, and of themselves, and of Iesus Christ. : [Seven lines from Malachi]
Cambridge: printed by Marmaduke Johnson, 1671
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All. We shall attend.
All. VVe shall attend.
Pium. Prayeth for a blessing—
Kinswom. Cousin, I am glad to see you eat so heartily, you are ⟨p. 17⟩very welcome to it. And I see that praying to God doth not fill your bellies, you need food to eat for all that.
All. Ha, ha, he. Praying to God would starve them if they should not eat. Ha, ha, he. Praying Indians are as weary and hungry as other men, for ought we ever saw by them. Ha, ha, he.
Pium. It is true that you say, and therefore we pray unto God to give us food, and to bless it to us when we eat it. This discourse bringeth to my mind a word which Christ spake, Man liveth not by bread only but by every word of God Man hath two parts, A Soul, and a Body, and both are to be fed. The body is fed by food, the Soul is fed by the Word of God and Prayer. You that pray not to God, you feed your bodies only, but you starve your Souls: we that pray to God feed our Souls as well as our bodies. And this is one reason why we persuade you to pray to God, because we would not have you to star your Souls. The Soul is the most excellent part of man, and shall never die; the body shall die. If you have so much wisdom as to fed your bodies we pray you be yet more wise, and feed your Souls also.