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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
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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.
And in the First Place, this is the very First born of my Wishes; nor is there any thing that I more wish, or have more Earnest desires for, than this: That all the Servants of GOD, who Do and Endure many Things for the Evangelizing of the World may Exhibit unto the whole World the Pure Maxims of the Everlasting Gospel, and would Preach unto the Nations, the Weightier Matters of the Gospel, and the Wheat well cleansed from the Chaff, and from those Lesser Matters, whereabout Good Men, may and often do, carry on their Disputations.
'Tis most certain, That the Christian Religion is no other than the Doctrine of Living to GOD by CHRIST; and is a Practical Thing rather than a mere Theory; the Intention whereof is, to animate a Real, Solid, Vital PIETY, and Call forth such as•y dead in their Sins, unto a Godly, & a Sober, & a Righteous Life.
'Tis most certain, That the Christian Religion is no other than the Doctrine of Living to GOD by CHRIST; and is a Practical Thing rather than a meer Theory; the Intention whereof is, to animate a Real, Solid, Vital PIETY, and Call forth such asy dead in their Sins, unto a Godly, & a Sober, & a Righteous Life.