N01899:168
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.
'Tis the Religion which brings the chosen of GOD into the Blessedness unto which He has Chosen them; and opens & sets up the Kingdom of GOD among the Nations. 'Tis the Religion that brings in Faithful Subjects and Soldiers for the Lord of Hosts, and builds up Living Temples for GOD, which are far more precious than any that are but Artificial and Inanimate. This Religion it is, that Invites and fetches down Heaven to the Earth, and prepares the Inhabitants of the Earth to be received into the most Blessed Mansions of Heaven.
'Tis the Religion which brings the chosen of GOD into the Blessedness unto which He has Chosen them; and opens & sets up the Kingdom of GOD among the Nations. 'Tis the Religion that brings in Faithful Subjects and Souldiers for the Lord of Hosts, and builds up Living Tempels for GOD, which are far more precious than any that are but Artificial and Inanimate. This Religion it is, that Invites and fetches down Heaven to the Earth, and prepares the Inhabitants of the Earth to be received into the most Blessed Mansions of Heaven.
A Work, How Illustrious! How Celestial! How Sublime! Oh! Thrice and four times Happy they, who are Ministers of GOD in such a Work! Happy, tho' never so much harassed with Labours, and Watchings, and Perpetual Troubles! Happy beyond all Expression, did they but know their own Happiness!
A Work, How Illustrious! How Celestial! How Sublime! Oh! Thrice and four times Happy they, who are Ministers of GOD in such a Work! Happy, tho' never so much harass'd with Labours, and Watchings, and Perpetual Troubles! Happy beyond all Expression, did they but know their own Happiness!
This Ministry, Suppose it a Load which even the Backs of Angels may tremble at; yet it is a work, which the Wings of Angels would ⟨p. 64⟩