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A Dialogue Between Andrew Trueman and Thomas Zealot - 6

A. I am afraid all this is wrong. I am a Presbyterian, you know, as well as yourself. But I would fain hope that I am a Christian also. Jesus Christ is the Prince of Peace, and has taught us the Doctrine of forgiving even our Enemies, as we expect that our heavenly Father will forgive us. I am afraid that you have done amiss. Many Things were permitted to the Jews because of the Hardness of their Hearts, which the Light of the Gospel has discovered to be wrong. But even the Jews paid the greatest Regard to their Treaties. And these Indians by Treaties have been acknowledged to be our Friends.
The Gibeonites were spared on Account of the publick Faith plighted to them, tho obtained by Fraud and Falshood. And tho Schechem had committed a Crime for which he ought to have suffered Death; Yet after Peace was made, we find the good old Patriarch Jacob, on his Death-Bed, bitterly cursing his Sons, for breaking the Peace. Instruments of Cruelty are in your Habitations. O my Soul come not thou into your Secrets, until your Assembly, mine

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