N01899:12
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.
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 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.
Unto YOU, & unto the Gentlemen of the Society with you, here is of Right now humbly made a small Present, with a short Account of some Things which you have a Relation to; whereto we add our Hearty Wishes & Prayers, that all the Blessings of Goodness, and the Rewards of all the Good you do for a poor People, may be Multiplied upon you.
But, as it has been, You know well, sometimes the custom of an Eminent Person, to carry about him the Picture of an Excellent FATHER, and often look upon it with Quickened Resolutions, To approve himself a Son worthy of such a Father, So, we can Desire no more, than what we not only Expect, but also already Enjoy in You; That you are the Worthy SON of a FATHER, had in Everlasting Remembrance, in these American Regions, as well […] in the City and Nation whereof he was a Conspicuous Ornament: But with none more affectionately, than, SIR,