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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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Indian Dialogues. › Dialogue 2: DIALOG. II. About calling home poor INDIANS.
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Pen. Yea, that I can freely yield unto, that God himself can do it; what cannot he do? but will the offended just and holy God pacify himself for my offences, and pardon so great a sinner •s I? God is just and holy, and how can it stand with his holy Justice to pardon a vile sinner, without satisfaction to his holy Justice? will the holy God cease to be just? will he abrogate and disannul his holy Law, which I have so often, so deeply, so rebelliously broken? I have some hope, because you say it is so, but I see not yet how it can be, for God is Unchangeable.
Pen. Yea, that I can freely yield unto, that God himself can do it; what cannot he do? but will the offended just and holy God pacifie himself for my offences, and pardon so great a sinner •s I? God is just and holy, and how can it stand with his holy Justice to pardon a vile sinner, without satisfaction to his holy Justice? will the holy God cease to be just? will he abrogate and disanul his holy Law, which I have so often, so deeply, so rebelliously broken? I have some hope, because you say it is so, but I see not yet how it can be, for God is Unchangeable.
Wab. It is true that you say, God will never deny his own Justice, nor abrogate his holy Law for our sakes: But our God is a merciful God, and infinite in wisdom, and by his infinite wisdom he hath found out a way to satisfy the Justice of his own Law, and to deliver poor sinners from the condemnation of the Law.
Wab. It is true that you say, God will never deny his own Justice, nor abrogate his holy Law for our sakes: But our God is a merciful God, and infinite in wisdome, and by his infinite wisdome he hath found out a way to satisfie the Justice of his own Law, and to deliver poor sinners from the condemnation of the Law.