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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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Kinsm. If these things be so, we had need cease laughing, and fall to weeping, and see if we can draw water from our mournful eyes to quench these tormenting flames. My heart trembles to hear these things: I never heard so much before, nor have I any thing to say to the contrary, but that these things may be so. But how shall I know that you say true? Our fore fathers were (many of them) wise men, and we have wise men now living, they all delight in these our Delights: they have taught us nothing about our Soul, and God, and Heaven, and Hell, and Joy and Torment in the life to come. Are you wiser th•n our fathers? May not we rather think that English men have invented these Stories to amaze and scare us out of our old Customs, and bring us to stand in awe of them, that they might wipe us of our Lands, and drive us into Corners, to seek new ways of living, and new places too? and be beholding to them for that which is our own, and was ours, before we kn•w them.
Kinsm. If these things be so, we had need cease laughing, and fall to weeping, and see if we can draw water from our mournful eyes to quench these tormenting flames. My heart trembles to hear these things: I never heard so much before, nor have I any thing to say to the contrary, but that these things may be so. But how shall I know that you say true? Our fore fathers were (many of them) wise men, and we have wise men now living, they all delight in these our Delights: they have taught us nothing about our Soul, and God, and Heaven, and Hell, and Joy and Torment in the life to come. Are you wiser th•n our fathers? May not we rather think that English men have invented these Stories to amaze and scare us out of our old Customes, and bring us to stand in awe of them, that they might wipe us of our Lands, and drive us into Corners, to seek new wayes of living, and new places too? and be beholding to them for that which is our own, and was ours, before we kn•w them.
All. You say right.