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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
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.
Out of Respect unto GOD and His CHRIST, I must heartily Love my Neighbour, and for ever do unto other Men, as I must own it Reasonable for them to do unto me.
(3) 'Tis a Soul Moulded according to these Maxims of PIETY that may, and none but such a Soul truly can, Rejoice in the Hope of the Glory of GOD.
(3) 'Tis a Soul Moulded according to these Maxims of PIETY that may, and none but such a Soul truly can, Rejoyce in the Hope of the Glory of GOD.
But then, this Vital PIETY, must be accompanied, with an Acknowledgement of those Truths, without the Fai• ⟨p. 55⟩whereof PIETY cannot be kept Alive, nor can Men Live unto GOD. We must therefore Acknowledge the Sacred Scriptures, for the Rule of what we are to Believe and Practise in Religion.
But then, this Vital PIETY, must be accompanied, with an Acknowledgment of those Truths, without the Fai• ⟨p. 55⟩whereof PIETY cannot be kept Alive, nor can Men Live unto GOD. We must therefore Acknowledge the Sacred Scriptures, for the Rule of what we are to Believe and Practise in Religion.