N01899:109
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Notitia Indiarum. › Note 2 › The RELIGION, Which ALL Good Men are united in.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The RELIGION, Which ALL Good Men are united in.
(1) There are Glorious Maxims of PIETY, whereto our Great SAVIOUR will have the Hearts and Lives of His People conformed, that He may Receive them to the Glory of GOD. There are the Things which accompany Salvation; The Things which must be found in all that shall be Saved; and are no where found but in those that shall be Saved; The Tempers and Actions of that Vital Piety wherein Men Live unto GOD.
(1) THere are Glorious Maxims of PIETY, whereto our Great SAVIOUR will have the Hearts and Lives of His People conformed, that He may Receive them to the Glory of GOD. There are the Things which accompany Salvation; The Things which must be found in all that shall be Saved; and are no where found but in those that shall be Saved; The Tempers and Actions of that Vital Piety wherein Men Live unto GOD.
There are certain Methods of PIETY directed by our SAVIOUR, that so a Just GOD, offended by our Sins, may be Reconciled unto us, and that so we may be Qualified for the Enjoyment of GOD in that Holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.