N01899:144
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 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,
Imprimis, DEUS ille Unus, qui in Tribus Personis, nempe Patre ac Filio ac Spiritu Sancta subsistit, Mundumque in principio Creavit, est pro Deo nostro amplectendus atque adorandus; Praecipuus hic debet esse Vitae nostrae Scopus, huic soli in Omnibus Obtempetare; Omniaque quae hujus Lumen in Anima nost•a Lucens pro peccatis contra illum Condemnaverit, summa cum Animae cura evitate.