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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Indian Dialogues. › Dialogue 2: DIALOG. II. About calling home poor INDIANS.
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.
Wab. The two first things you are to consider of now you are come into the light, and your heart willing to attend unto this great work of praying to God, are these: 1. To know God. 2. Our selves. Of God, know his Greatness, Goodness, Wisdom, and Power. He hath made all things in this great world; all things above us are his works, he made the Heavens, the Sun, Moon, Stars, Clouds, &c. and all things below, the Seas, the Earth, and all things that are in them: he made Man, and gave him dominion over all his works in this world, and a Law of Life, under the penalty of ⟨p. 27⟩damnation: and all this God did in six days; so great is God above man. The Law which he gave to man is holy, just and good: but man by the temptation of evil Angels, who by their sin became to be Devils, I say man broke the Law which God gave him, and sinned against God, turned Rebel against God, and served the Devil: and in this rebellion all the children of men go on to this day. Gods Law is in Ten Commandments, wherein he requireth of man to know and worship God, fear his Name, and keep his Sabbaths; and other Laws forbid Lust, Murder, Stealing, and all other evils. Moreover, God hath annexed unto his Law a great Promise, Do and live, with a just Punishment, Sin and die eternally; namely, that all the breakers of this Law, and sinners against him, shall be punished in hell fire with eternal torments. And this is the condition of all mankind, and it is our estate, that by our sins against God we have deserved to die, and then to be cast away down into hell fire, to be tormented among the Devils, who tempted us to sin, and whom we have served in our life time: now together with them we must be tormented for ever.
Wab. The two first things you are to consider of now you are come into the light, and your heart willing to attend unto this great work of praying to God, are these: 1. To know God. 2. Our selves. Of God, know his Greatness, Goodness, VVisdome, and Power. He hath made all things in this great world; all things above us are his works, he made the Heavens, the Sun, Moon, Stars, Clouds, &c. and all things below, the Seas, the Earth, and all things that are in them: he made Man, and gave him dominion over all his works in this world, and a Law of Life, under the penalty of ⟨p. 27⟩damnation: and all this God did in six days; so great is God above man. The Law which he gave to man is holy, just and good: but man by the temptation of evil Angels, who by their sin became to be Devils, I say man broke the Law which God gave him, and sinned against God, turned Rebel against God, and served the Devil: and in this rebellion all the children of men go on to this day. Gods Law is in Ten Commandments, wherein he requireth of man to know and worship God, fear his Name, and keep his Sabbaths; and other Laws forbid Lust, Murther, Stealing, and all other evils. Moreover, God hath annexed unto his Law a great Promise, Do and live, with a just Punishment, Sin and die eternally; namely, that all the breakers of this Law, and sinners against him, shall be punished in hell fire with eternal torments. And this is the condition of all mankinde, and it is our estate, that by our sins against God we have deserved to die, and then to be cast away down into hell fire, to be tormented among the Devils, who tempted us to sin, and whom we have served in our life time: now together with them we must be tormented for ever.