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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39228	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 Iesus Christ.	Eliot, John, 1604-1690.	1671 (1671)	Wing E513; ESTC R40409	79,586	82

I know that you s●y 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 taug●t us nothing about our Soul and God and Heaven and Hell and J●y and Torment in the life to come Are you 〈◊〉 th●n our fathers May not we rather think that English men have invented these Stori●s 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 knew them A●l. You say right Pium. The Book of God is no invention of English-men it is the holy Law of God himself which was given unto man by God before English-men had any knowledge of God and all the knowledge which they have they have it out of the Book of God and this Book is given to us as well as to them and it is as free for us to search the Scriptures as for them So that we have our instruction from an higher hand then the hand of man it is the great Lord God of Heaven and Earth who teacheth us these great things of which we speak Yet this is also true that we have great cause to be thankful to the English and to thank God for them for they had a good Country of their own but by Ships sailing into these parts of the World they heard of us and of our Country and of our nakedness ignorance of God and wilde condition God put it into their hearts to desire to come hither and teach us the good knowledge of God and their King gave them leave so to do and in our Country to have their liberty to serve God accordi●g to the Word of God And being come hit●er we gave them leave freely to live among us they have purchased of us a great part of those Lands which they possess they love us they do us right and no wrong willingly if any do us wrong it is without the consent of their Rulers and upon our Complaints our wrongs are righted They are many of them especially the Ruling part good men and desire to do us good God put it into the heart of one of their Ministers as you all know to teach us the knowledge of God by the Word of God and he hath Translated the holy Book of God into our Language so that we can perfectly know the minde and counsel of God and out of this Book have I learned all that I say unto you and therefore ●ou need no more doubt of the truth of it then you have cause to doubt that the Heaven is over our head the Sun shineth the Earth is under our feet we walk and live upon it and breathe in the Air for as we see with our eyes these things to be so so we reade with our own eyes these things which I speak of to be written in Gods own Book and we feel the truth thereof in our own hearts Kinswom Cousin you have wearied your legs this day with a lo●g Journey to come and visit us and you weary your tongue with long Discourses I am willing to comfort and refresh you with a ●hort Supper All. Ha ha he though short if sweet that has good savour to a man that is we●ry Ha ha he Kinswom You make long and learned Discourses to us which we do not well understand I think our best answer is to stop your mout● and fill your belly with a good Supper and when your belly is full you will be content to take rest your self and give us leave to be at rest from these g●stering and heart-trembling discourses We are well as we are and desire not to be troubled with these new wise sayings All. You say true Ha ha he Pium. It is good to be merry and wise I am an hungry and ●eary 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 blessing before we eat and therefore I intreat you ●o have so much patie●ce and compliance as to give me the quiet liberty to pray to God b●fore we eat Kinsm I pray do and we shall with quietness and silence attend to such a service unto God Pium. Let us lift up our eyes and ●earts to God in heaven and ●ay Almighty glorious merciful and heavenly Father thou dwellest in the high Heavens and fillest both Heaven and Earth with thy presence thou takest care of and governest us here on earth we are poor worms under thy feet thou feedest every living Creature and ●akest our food to be like a staff to sustain our faint and weary bo●ies thou renewest our strength every day and though we are sinners in thy sight yet thou art merciful to us and with long patience dost call us to repentance We confess all our sins before thee and pr●y thee for Iesus Christ his sake who died for sinners to have mercy on us and freely to pardon and forgive us all our sins Bless us at this time and this food which is set before us let it be blessed to us make us wise to receive it at thy hand and to use the strength we get by it to the glory of thy Name through Iesus Christ. And bless all our Souls ●eed them by thy Word and Truth and guide our Tongues to speak wise words that may minister grace to the hearers and help us all to rejoyce in the Lord through Iesus Christ. Amen Now let us eat and rejoyce together for God filleth our bodies with food and our souls with gladness Kinsm When the body is full of meat and the head full of wit and the mouth full of words there will be wise discourse Pium. Adde but one thing more If the heart be full of grace then the discourse will be both wise and godly Kinswom You talk much of a belly full I wish we have victuals enough to fill them All. Ha ha he They be not half full yet Ha ha he Kinsm What News do the Ships bring from beyond Sea Pium. They say wicked men are bold and that good men who pray to God are hated vexed troubled persecuted and not suffered to pray to God according to the Laws of Gods Word but by the Laws of men All. It is an ill time for you to come to perswade us to pray God when praying to God is so opposed hated and hindred y●● may be m●re like to prevail with us when praying to God is credit honour and good esteem Pium Such as

the best comp●ny in the world for yo● have the company of Jesus Christ. See Isa. 53 3. He is ●esp●sed a●● rejected of men a man of sorrows and acquainted with gr●efs 〈◊〉 we hid as it were our ●aces ●rom him he was de●p●●ed and we este●●ed him not W●en you ●re alone by your s●l● re●de all this C●●pter you shall finde that Christ w●s in grea●er distre●ses then yo● are which he suffered patie●●ly to procure for us pardon and salvation and by his ●u●fering he ●ad ex●erience of su●ferings that ●● might pity us in our g●ie●s and ●h●r●for● it is said Heb. 4.15 For we have not an high Priest which cannot be touched with the feelings of our infirmities but wa● in all points tempted l●ke as we are 〈◊〉 without sin Our aff●ictions al●s expose ●s oftentime● to ●in b●● in that case also Chr ist is very pitiful and gracious he remembre●● that we are but du●● Psal. 103.14 You adde You fear that your Sun will set in darkness and de●spair I answer to you Consider t●a● future things belong to God Do not afflict your self with future things Sufficient for the d●y● the evil thereof Mat. 6.34 Let ●he morrow care for it ●elf B●● suppose y●u should have no comfort t●ll you die it is the case ●● many of Gods children to die in a dark cloud and Christ himse●● sanctified that case Mat 27.46 50. He cried with a loud voice E●● Eli lamasabachthani Ver 5● Iesus when he had cried again with loud voice yiel●ed up the ghost Wh●t if some of Gods childre● should in this point be conformed to Jesus Christ do not adde ●● your sorrows fears of a sad condition which Christ hath sancti●fied Touching your Parentage and present state I know how it i● very well In this case I advise you to consider that if yo●● worldly Cup had been fill●d with such sweetness as flesh and bloo● desire it might have been much worse for your soul. A so●● drowned in earthly pleasure is rarely saved but a soul drowned i● worldly sorrows and griefs if instructed in the knowledge of J●●sus Christ shall never be lost because the sorrows and crosses ●● the world will keep him from surfetting upon the Creature an● drive him to s●tiate himself in Christ by the promises of the G●●spel Thus have I answered to the chief points in your Co●●plaint Penit. Oh the power of the word of God aptly applied unto t●● case of a distressed soul The sweet experience that I have no● found in those ●criptures which you have produced and applie● to my case shall make me hereafter to search and reade the Scri●ptures more then I have done I do like Hagar complain for ●●●ter when it is just by me if I would search I hope I shall rea● the Scriptures more then ever I have done Iohn You have prevented me or rather the Spirit of God hath put into your heart by power and grace that which I intended to have presented to you by way of Advice and Counsel namely To be frequent and abundant in reading the Scriptures for you see that all Soul-cordials are laid up there fetch them out therefore from that divine Treasury and make use of them for your comfort I know the Devil will oppose you in this matter and keep you from conversing in the Scriptures because they are the sword of the Spirit Eph. 6.17 whereby we resist his temptations as Christ himself hath set us an example Mat. 4.4 7 10. when the Devil assaulted him with a temptation he drew forth the sword of the Spirit a Text of Scripture and opposed the temptation thereby and that presently conquered the Tempter Do you the same you cannot imitate a better pattern then our Lord Jesus Christ and it is his Command also that we should so do Iohn 5.39 Search the Scriptures and David made them his meditation day and ●ight Psal. 1.2 and he had the like experience that you now have found and came to the like resolution Psal. 119.93 I will never forget thy precepts for with them thou hast quickned me Penit. I feel much tranquility in my minde in this way of seeking Soul-comfort in the Scriptures Oh I have found out a way of refuge comfort and rest in a stormy time I hope the Lord will give me grace and wisdome to make more use thereof then ever I have done in my life But still my soul is in great doubts and fears about my eternal condition if I spend this life in griefs and sorrows and when I finish here I go away to eternal misery Oh what a lamentable case is that and my fear is that this will be my condition my griefs indeed are many but they are worldly sorrow I cannot say that I am converted I desire to know what it is to be converted Iohn All Mankinde are once born by natural birth they come into this world but all Gods children are born again Iohn 3.3 Except a man be born again he cannot enter into the kingdome of heaven and this is a spiritual birth ver 5. Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit c. Baptism is an outward sign of it but the inward grace is a work of the Spirit and the Spirit worketh by the Word of God Iames 1.18 21. Of his own will begat he us by the word of truth and ver 21. Wherefore lay apart all fil●hiness and superfluity of naughtiness and receive with meekness the ingrafted word which is able to save your souls By faith in the Promise the soul is united to Christ and he that is joyned to the Lord is one Spirit 1 Cor. 6.17 When an afflicted soul doth venture it self and its All upon the faithful word of Promise and sayes to God as Iob said Iob 13.15 Though he kill me yet I will trust in him this is the new-born soul and this believing soul shall be surely saved at last whatever sorrows and afflictions it goes through in this life And wh ereas you say that your sorrows and griefs are but worldly sorrow I answer That the question is not what kinde of sorrow it is so much as what the effects of it is for no matter what the sorrow is if it drive the soul to Christ our salvation is by Christ and not by sorrow the use of sorrow is to imbitter sin and the world and to drive the soul to Christ for relief and rest if worldly sorrow or rather sorrow about worldly things do this it hath its end and proves to be a godly sorrow Sorrows are not to merit any thing from God but to force the afflicted soul to fly to him for refuge We shall finde examples in Scripture where sorrows about worldly things have effectually driven the soul to fly to God for refuge Psal. 88.18 Lover and friend hast thou put far from me and mine acquaintance into darkness This was an outward affliction and yet in the first verse of that Psalm it drives him