N01899:115
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 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.
The second is this.
A Glorious CHRIST, who is the Eternal Son of GOD, Incarnate and Enthroned in our Blessed JESUS, is the Redeemer of Mankind; ⟨p. 54⟩unto whose Great Sacrifice I must repair for Acceptance with GOD; And under His Conduct, I am to Expect a Complete Happiness for my Immortal Soul, to which He will Restore my Body, when He shall come to Judge the World.
A Glorious CHRIST, who is the Eternal Son of GOD, Incarnate and Enthroned in our Blessed JESUS, is the Redeemer of Mankind; ⟨p. 54⟩unto whose Great Sacrifice I must repair for Acceptance with GOD; And under His Conduct, I am to Expect a Compleat Happiness for my Immortal Soul, to which He will Restore my Body, when He shall come to Judge the World.