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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.
Keit. What second thoughts may come into my mind I cannot tell, but at present I find nothing in my mind to oppose against what you say. But yet there is another thing that I am much afraid of, and that is your Church Admonitions and Excommunications: I hear that your Sachems are under that yoke. I am a sinful man as well as others, but if I must be admonished by the Church, who are my Subjects, I know not how I shall like that. I doubt it will be a bitter Pill, too hard for me to get down and sw••l•w.
Keit. What second thoughts may come into my minde I cannot tell, but at present I finde nothing in my minde to oppose against what you say. But yet there is another thing that I am much afraid of, and that is your Church Admonitions and Excommunications: I hear that your Sachems are under that yoke. I am a sinful man as well as others, but if I must be admonished by the Church, who are my Subjects, I know not how I shall like that. I doubt it will be a bitter Pill, too hard for me to get down and sw••l•w.
Ant. Still your Objections are great and weighty. Sin is the sickness of the soul, even as diseases are the sickness of the body. Admonitions in the Lord, by the holy Scriptures are the Physic of the Soul, even as outward Medicines are Physic to the body. Now if your body be sick, you will no• refu•e Physic because it is bitter or sharp, and difficult to bear. No, but you will bear it patiently, because you know it is wholesome, a•d a means to cure your sickness. The same I say about the sickness of your soul, that Medicine which God hath appointed to purge awa• your sin, you must patiently submit unto, because it is wholesome and good for your soul. Yea, and you must be so much the more careful and willing to submit thereunto, by how much the danger of soul-sicknesses are deeper and greater then bodily sicknesses be. A bodily sickness, at the worst, doth but kill the body but soul-sicknesses, if not cured, do damn both body and soul in hell, with the Devil and his Angels for ever. It is a desperate danger to let soul sicknesses go uncured. It is pleasant and delightful to the flesh to sin without control, but remember wht the end of it will be. Solomon that wise King saith,