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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.
TO the REVEREND, and every where known and honoured Minister of the Gospel, Mr. Bartholomew Ziegenbalgh, Pastor of the Indian Church, And an Indefatigable Missionary, and most faithful and famous Servant of CHRIST, among the Malabarians in the East Indies; Much Happiness in the Lord.
TO the REVEREND, and every where known and honour'd Minister of the Gospel, Mr. Bartholomew Ziegenbalgh, Pastor of the Indian Church, And an Indefatigable Missionary, and most faithful and famous Servant of CHRIST, among the Malabarians in the East Indies; Much Happiness in the Lord.
That Evangelical and indeed Angelical work, in which (Reverend Sirs, You and your Colleagues) We with a Joyful & Grateful Mind, see you Engaged with such a toilsome Labour; 'Tis truly, the most Noble of all that are or ever can be undertaken among the Children of Men. Than this most Holy Work, there can be Invented, Nothing more Heavenly, Nothing more Gracious, Nothing more Agreeable & Subservient unto the First and Main End, and Chief Good, of Men; There can be nothing more Profitable to Mankind; or more worthy of Emulation even among the very Angels of GOD.
THat Evangelical and indeed Angelical work, in which (Reverend Sirs, You and your Collegues) We with a Joyful & Grateful Mind, see you Engaged with such a toylsome Labour; 'Tis truly, the most Noble of all that are or ever can be undertaken among the Children of Men. Than this most Holy Work, there can be Invented, Nothing more Heavenly, Nothing more Gracious, Nothing more Agreeable & Subservient unto the First and Main End, and Chief Good, of Men; There can be nothing more Profitable to Mankind; or more worthy of Emulation even among the very Angels of GOD.