N01899:172
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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But Blessed be the Name of our GOD, in that He hath inclined the Minds of some Eminent Persons, to take away such a Scandal, and instigated them to roll off this Reproach from us. And among these, if any have done virtuously, You, O Malabcrian Missionaries, (which I would Speak, not for the Flattering of you, but as Admiring the Divine Grace which has assisted you!) You have excelled them all.
But Blessed be the Name of our GOD, in that He hath inclined the Minds of some Eminent Persons, to take away such a Scandal, and instigated them to roll off this Reproach from us. And among these, if any have done vertuously, You, O Malabcrian Missionaries, (which I would Speak, not for the Flattering of you, but as Admiring the Divine Grace which has assisted you!) You have excelled them all.
The Report of your Mission and of your Diligence, hath reached from the Eastern even to the Western Indies. And what the Grace of Heaven has helped you to do, towards the producing of a Christian People among the Indians, is heard among the American Christians, with the highest Praises offered up to GOD on the occasion, and as cool waters to our Thirsty Souls is the Good News from a far Country.
Being Invited by your most Courteous and Christian Letters to me, and being a most hearty well-wisher to your Enterprises for the Enlargement of the Church, I am willing to declare, in a few words, and with the Modesty which becomes me, what my Apprehensions are concerning the Glorious and Weighty Affair which you have upon your hands.
Being Invited by your most Courteous and Christian Letters to me, and being a most hearty well-wisher to your Enterprizes for the Enlargement of the Church, I am willing to declare, in a few words, and with the Modesty which becomes me, what my Apprehensions are concerning the Glorious and Weighty Affair which you have upon your hands.