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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. Your acceptance and approbation of what I say, and of what we do in this point, is a great argument that God doth bow your heart to pray unto God; for you acknowledge it to be our duty so to do, and the neglect of it would be against the light of your own Reason: so that this Conviction hath cast a chain upon your soul, to bind you to pray unto God. What say you my friends?
Pium. Your acceptance and approbation of what I say, and of what we do in this point, is a great argument that God doth bow your heart to pray unto God; for you acknowledge it to be our duty so to do, and the neglect of it would be against the light of your own Reason: so that this Conviction hath cast a chain upon your soul, to binde you to pray unto God. What say you my friends?
All. We cannot say any thing against what you say, but what we shall do, we cannot yet tell: we must first consider of it, for we are ignorant and foolish, we cannot do as you do.
Pium. Bend your hearts to it, and God will teach you by his ⟨p. 13⟩Word: for we were at first as ignorant as you are, but God helped us to hear the Word, and do what we could, and you see what God hath brought the matter unto. We now walk in the light, and now we call you to come into the light: therefore I say, Awake you that sleep, stand up from the dead, and Christ will give you light.