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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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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.
Kinsm. I perceive you have quite […] o•f th•se delights and […] that your Country men use, and […] you were in your young time accustomed to, because you have forgot the meaning of such noises. There is a great Dancing, and Sacrifice, and Play▪ and that is the noise that you hear.
Kinsm. I perceive you have quite 〈…〉 o•f th•se delights and 〈…〉 that your Country men use, and 〈…〉 you were in your young time accustomed to, because you have forgot the meaning of such noises. There is a great Dancing, and Sacrifice, and Play▪ and that is the noise that you hear.
P•um. You say right, we have indeed quite left off and cast away those works of darkness for we have great •ight shi•ing among us▪ which discovers the fil•h and folly of those things; as when a light is set up in a dark room▪ in a dark night▪ it discovereth all the dirty corners of the house▪ and all the evil actions that are wont to be done in the dark, without discovery. We plainly see the sinfulness of our own former, and o• your still continued ways; and I desire that God would help me to open among you some of the Divin• Light which Gd hath showed us, that it may ame you from such filthy practices and hine them away for ever, as the ring Sun doth dssipite ad drive away all the darknesss of the night and maketh Wolves Bears and all other wlde beats hide themselves in thickets, and not dare to be seen in the daylight.