N01899:16
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
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The Joyful Sound reaching to both the INDIA's.
A Discourse delivered unto the COMMISSIONERS, for Propagating the GOSPEL among the INDIANS, On 18. d. XI. m. 1720. A Time Set apart for Supplications to Heaven for a Blessing on their Intention, at the House of Judge SEWALL.
PSAL. LXXXIX. 15. Blessed is the People, that know the Joyful Sound.
THERE was a Direction given and taken in the Old Church of Israel, Numb. X. 2. Make thee Two Trumpets of Silver, that thou mayst use them for the calling of the Assembly. By the Sound of ⟨p. 2⟩such Silver Trumpets, the People of GOD' were called unto the Employments and Enjoyments of their Sacred Solemnities. And, was this the Joyful Sound, which the People that heard it, are now Pronounced a Blessed People? I deny not, the Reference here-unto, which may be here supposed. But then, we will suppose a further Intent of the Holy Spirit, by whom the Psalm was dictated. He may intend the Joyful Sound, which in the Gospel, and the Institutions thereof, His People are Blessed withal. And accordingly, It will be no wrong unto the Text, if we put it unto the use, of Supporting this DOCTRINE.