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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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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 fi•de, is this; I a• loth to divide my self from my Friends and Kindred If I should cha•ge 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.
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 bosome, I will shake them out if I can. I am ashamed of my old wayes, 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 unpersw•deable. I would not be my self of the number of them that are vicious and vile •bove restraint. VVhat I perswade others to leave, I would not do the same my self. VVe 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 perswaded, 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.