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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. I see my self very ignorant, and therefore I am very desirous to learn Catechism, because I have heard and do perceive that is the foundation of all knowledge in Religion, being wisely gathered out of the Scripture.
Wab. You say right about Catechism; we do therefore teach it our Children, that the principles of good knowledge may be sown and rooted in them from a Child: and for that reason also do we send them to School, to learn to read the Word of God, that they may be acquainted with the Word from a Child.
Wab. You say right about Catechism; we do therefore teach it our Children, that the principles of good knowledge may be sown and rooted in them from a Childe: and for that reason also do we send them to School, to learn to reade the Word of God, that they may be acquainted with the Word from a Childe.
Pen. Oh what a loss is this to me, that I am to begin to learn Catechize and the Word of God now I am a man, which I might have been acquainted with from a Child, had I been brought up among the praying Indians. How happy are your Children that are thus brought up. I suppose you are very diligent in this matter in Training up of your Children.
Pen. Oh what a loss is this to me, that I am to begin to learn Catechize and the Word of God now I am a man, which I might have been acquainted with from a Childe, had I been brought up among the praying Indians. How happy are your Children that are thus brought up. I suppose you are very diligent in this matter in Training up of your Children.