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India Christiana. A discourse, delivered unto the Commissioners, for the Propagation of the Gospel…
India Christiana. A discourse, delivered unto the Commissioners, for the Propagation of the Gospel among the American Indians : which is accompanied with several instruments relating to the glorious design of propagating our holy religion, in the Eastern as well as the Western, Indies. : An entertainment which they that are waiting for the kingdom of God will receive as good news from a far country. / By Cotton Mather, D.D. and F.R.S.
printed by B. Green, 1721
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IT is promised as a Felicity to the Church of GOD, Instead of thy Fathers there shall be thy Children; And it is received among its Maxims, The Glory of Children are their Fathers.
The People of NEW-ENGLAND, may count it their Felicity, and the Aboriginal Natives Christianized in that Country may very particularly do so, That when the Benign Influences of your Incomparable FATHER, are withdrawn from us, we have a SON of His to take, like Him, a kind cognizance of us. And You as well as we, esteem it Your Glory, that you are a SON of such a Valuable & Memorable FATHER.
The Honourable Persons, that compose a Society of the most Christian Intention, whose CHARTER feels no Feebleness, tho' near the Age at which the Natural Body is usually Enfeebled, have expressed for you the Reverse of what Regards the Romans had for the Son of Scipio Africanus, in that ⟨p. ii⟩they have chosen you to Succeed your FATHER in the Quality of their GOVERNOR. And indeed, when in a Succession of old there was Bonus a Bono, Pius a Pio, it was a very Happy Government.
The Honourable Persons, that compose a Society of the most Christian Intention, whose CHARTER feels no Feebleness, tho' near the Age at which the Natural Body is usually Enfeebled, have express'd for you the Reverse of what Regards the Romans had for the Son of Scipio Africanus, in that ⟨p. ii⟩they have chosen you to Succeed your FATHER in the Quality of their GOVERNOUR. And indeed, when in a Succession of old there was Bonus a Bono, Pius a Pio, it was a very Happy Government.