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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.
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.
Pen. Aged Sachem, now that you and we are refreshed and strengthened by this food, I will declare unto you strange News, to which I entreat your attendance a little while, and all the people here present. I am like a man that was looking for a shell, and found a Pearl of inestimable value, whereby he became very rich and renowned. I had a small occasion to come and visit you, grave Sachem, and by the way I met with this good man, a messenger of God; by whose discourse my blind eyes are opened, my dead heart is made alive, my lame legs are enabled to walk in the way to heaven, where I shall enjoy an eternal Kingdom. Many miracles have been wrought upon me by the power of Gods Word, spoken to me by this m•n: and that I may stir up your heart, and the hearts of the people here present to give diligent heed to what he saith, I will declare unto you what passed between us. I was as you are, I lived as you live, I did as you do, and as the rest of our Countrymen and Neighbours do; I followed the sports, pleasures, vanities, and courses that other men, and you, to this day walk in. But I was not aware how blind, and dead, and vile, and wicked I was in the sight of God; nor was I aware that I was running on in a pleasant delightful way, which led me down to hell and eternal damnation. But when I met this man, he discoursed with me about these things; he opened unto me, by the Word of God, the great Majesty of God, his Holiness, Justice, and Goodness; how God had made this great world, and all things in it, both things above▪ and things below; how • made man an eminent Creature, gave him dominion over all the creatures here below; & gave him an holy, just ⟨p. 39⟩and good Law, in Ten Commandments, under the order of a Covenant of Works, and if he kept and obeyed this Law, he should live in glory and happiness forever▪ but i• he did break this Law, and sin against God, that great Majesty of heaven, then he should be answerably and justly puni•••d with eternal torments in hell fire, with the Devil and his Angels for evermore: and this Law was for himself and all his posterity, in who•e stead he stood as a public person. Now he informed me, that Adam the first man sinned by the temptation of evil Angels, which rebelled against God, and turned Devils: