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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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Pium. Your Prayers and Pauwavings are worshipping of the Devil, and not of God, and they are among the greatest of your sins. Your murders, lusts, stealing, lying, &c. they are great sins▪ your Pauwavings are worse sins, because by them you worship the Devil in stead of God. When you Pauwau's use Physic by Roots, and such other things which God •ath made for that purpose, that is no sin, you do well to use Physic for your recovery from sickness; but your praying to, and worshipping the Devil, that is your great sin, which now God calls you to forsake. Use only such Remedies as God hath appointed, and pray only to God; this we call you to do, and this is the way of true wisdom.
Pium. Your Prayers and Pauwauings are worshipping of the Devil, and not of God, and they are among the greatest of your sins. Your murthers, lusts, stealing, lying, &c. they are great sins▪ your Pauwauings are worse sins, because by them you worship the Devil in stead of God. VVhen you Pauwau's use Physick by Roots, and such other things which God •ath made for that purpose, that is no sin, you do well to use P•ysick for your recovery from sickness; but your praying to, and worshipping the Devil, that is your great sin, which now God calls you to forsake. Use onely such Remedies as God hath appointed, and pray onely to God; this we call you to do, and this is the way of true wisdome.
Kinsm. I feel my heart broken and divided, I know not what to do. To part with our former lusts and pleasures is an hard point, and I feel my heart very loth and backward to it, many objections against it: yet I cannot but confess, that I do not in my inward heart approve of them. I know they are vile and filthy, and I desire to forsake them, they are like burning coals in my bosom, I will shake them out if I can. I am ashamed of my old ways, and loth I am to keep that which I am ashamed to be seen in. The wiser men be, the more they abstain from such lusts, and we account such to be foolish, vile and wicked, that are unbridled and unpersuadable. I would not be my self of the number of them that are vicious and vile above restraint. What I persuade others to leave, I would not do the same my self. We do account it commendable in such as do bridle and refrain themselves from those vices; and what I judge to be commendable in others, would be therein exemplar and a pattern unto such as be young and foolish, and run mad after such beastly courses. In that point I would easily be persuaded, or at least I desire so to be: But the greatest difficulty that I yet fide, is this; I a loth to divide my self from my Friends and Kindred If I should chage my course and not they, then I must leave and forsake their company, which I am very loth to do. I love my Sachem, and all the rest of you my good Friends; if I should change my life and way, I greatly desire that we might agree to do it together.