N01899:142
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.
Certissimum est, Quod Religio Christana, nil aliud sit, quam Doctrina Deo per Christum vivendi, atque Practica potius quam Theor etica Scientia; cujus Intentio sit, Realem, Solidam, Vividamque animare Pietatem, atque homines in peccatis mortuos, ad piam, sobriam, justamque Vitam evocare.
Certissimum est, Quod in Religione Christiana, quae Pietatis est revera Doctrina, sint Practici quidam Articuli, in quibus Omnes Dei Filii uniuntur, et in hac Unione, qui serio ac sincere coalescunt, sunt inter Dei Filios Numerandi.
Certissimum est, Quod paucis hisce Practicoe Pietatis Articulis prius oblatis ac probe ⟨p. 67⟩Receptis, Mens jam Sanata rectius, ac plenius de rebus illis Minutionibus, de quibus inter Bonos non fine mala multa miraque lite disputatur, Judicabit. Amor enim Dei est Illuminatio Mentis, et qui Controversias movent, hos Practicae Pietatis Articulos defendendi Zelum, utrinque profitentur.
Hoc igitur, a vobis unice ac obnixe Peto, Quod Gentibus inter quos in Opere Dei abundatis, Hos primae Magnitudinis Articulos, in quibus Verus Christianismus primo consistit, primo Proponatis,