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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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Keit. Who can oppose or gainsay the mountainous weight of the•• Arguments? I […] more then satisfied, I am ashamed of my ignorance, and I abhor my self that ever I doubted of this point; and I desire wholly to give up my sel• to the knowledge of, and obedience to the word of G•d, and to abandon and forsake these sins w•i•h the wo•d •f God reproveth and condemneth.
Keit. Who can oppose or gainsay the mountainous weight of the•• Arguments? I 〈…〉 more then ••tisfied, I am ashamed of my ignorance, and I abhor my self that ever I doubted of this point; and I desire wholly to give up my sel• to the knowledge of, and ob•dience to the word of G•d, and to abandon and •orsake these sins w•i•h the wo•d •f God reproveth and condemneth.
Wi••. I will add one Consideration further, to manifest that the Scriptures are the word of G•d; and that is, By the great Antiquity of these writings; which have been extant so many thousand years, and have […] through to many enemies hands, who •ave used all ar and frce to abolish them, or corrupt them, and yet they could never d it. Mses wrote te first Five Books of Scripture above a thousand ad our hundred years before Christ came, and it is above a thousand and […] hundred years since Christ came, and since the Gpl, the last part of the Scripture, was written. Put these two Numbers together, and they make three thousand years. So long the Church have had the Scriptures: and all this while the Devil and wicked men have endeavoured either to abolish them, or corrupt them, but they could never do it; we have every wrd of God perfect and pure unto this day which cannot be said of any other writing in all the world. And this wonderful divine protection of this Boo, doth greatly manifest, that doubtless it is God own word, over which he hath bestowed such eminent care.