N01899:111
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.
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.
There are certain Points of the Everlasting Gospel, according to which, it must be with a loud Voice proclaimed unto us, That we must so Fear GOD, and give Glory unto Him; and Except the Kingdom of GOD, be therewithal first set up in us, we cannot be Received into His Heavenly Kingdom.
(2) There are Especially THREE Grand MAXIMS of PIETY, which we must yield our Assent and Consent unto.
The first is this.
The ONE most High GOD, who is the FATHER, and the SON, and the Holy SPIRIT, must be my GOD; and I must make it the Main Intention of my Life, to please Him with all Holy Obedience and Submission unto Him; and be afraid of Every Thing which His Light in my Soul shall condemn as an Evil Thing.