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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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Pium. It is good to be merry and wise. I am an hungry and weary, and willing to eat. God hath appointed food to be a means of sustaining, relieving and repairing our spent strength: This being a work above the power of the food we eat, or of our selves that eat it, and only in the power of God himself to bless it, for such great uses; therefore God hath taught us, and it is our custom, among all that are godly, to pray to God for a bleeding before we eat: and therefore I entreat you to have so much patience and compliance, as to give me the quiet liberty to pray to God before we eat.
Pium. It is good to be merry and wise. I am an hungry and weary, and willing to eat. God hath appointed food to be a means of sustaining, relieving and repairing our spent strength: This being a work above the power of the food we eat, or of our selves that eat it, and onely in the power of God himself to bless it, for such great uses; therefore God hath taught us, and it is our custome, among all that are godly, to pray to God for a bleding before we eat: and therefore I intreat you to have so much patience and compliance, as to give me the quiet liberty to pray to God before we eat.
Kinsm. I pray do, and we shall with quietness and silence attend to such a service unto God.