N01899:155
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.
Per Plusquam Ducentos Annos, Haec Spiritus Prophetici Dona •cclesiam auxerunt atque rexerunt; et Ecclesia Sponsi sui Dilectissimi fic secum sensit Praesentiam, Quum vero Spinitus hujus Mundi carnalis, cum Epicureanae Philosoph• Veneno tumens: intravit in Ecclesiam, quae Salvatorem non amplius agnoscare voluit Gubernatorem Vexa us recessit hi• Paracletus, atque Successit Regnum Spiritu Antichristi foedissimo animatum; et per Tres Annos at Sex Menses, Pluvia terrae sub Indig natione Dei languenti, denegata fuerit.
Sed jam tandem, Quid si•post Elapsos Mille Ducentos et Sexaginta Antichristi Annos, Pluviae multae sonus audiatur! Quid si Columba his egressa ac mox reversa, tertia jam vice Egrediatur, idque sine animo revertendi; maneatque nobiscum, usque dumb Diluvium Ignorantiae atque Impietatis, quo Terra submersa jam tota javet, Superficiem Terrae relinquat exsiccatam! Quid si Regnum Dei cum Gaudio Spiritus Sancti promissis Donis Modisque, pro Evangelii tam Interna quam Externa propagatione operantis, adveniat! Hoc, an sit Futurum; [Greek or Hebrew].
Sed jam tandem, Quid si•post Elapsos Mille Ducentos et Sexaginta Antichristi Annos, Pluviae multae sonus audiatur! Quid si Columba his egressa ac mox reversa, tertia jam vice Egrediatur, idque sine animo revertendi; maneatque nobiscum, usque dum Diluvium Ignorantiae atque Impietatis, quo Terra submersa jam tota javet, Superficiem Terrae relinquat exsiccatam! Quid si Regnum Dei cum Gaudio Spiritus Sancti promissis Donis Modisque, pro Evangelii tam Interna quam Externa propagatione operantis, adveniat! Hoc, an sit Futurum; 〈non-Latin alphabet〉.