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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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It is very certain, That these few Articles of Practical Piety, being first offered and well ⟨p. 67⟩Received, the Mind thus Healed, will now make a Righter and •uller Judgment, of those Lesser Matters, upon which Good Men have many, mischievous and marvellous Controversies. The love of GOD will Enlighten the Mind that has it; And indeed they that manage Controversies, do on both sides make a profession of Zeal to maintain these Articles of Practical Godliness.
This therefore is the One Thing, which I earnestly Request of you; That you first of all propound unto the Nations among whom you abound in the work of the Lord, these Articles of the First Magnitude, wherein True Christianity does Firstly and Chiefly consist.
In the First Place; The One GOD, who Subsisteth in Three Persons, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit; and who in the Beginning did Create the World; is to be Embraced and Adored for OUR GOD. It must be the Principal Aim of our Life, in all things to yield Obedience unto Him. And it must be our most hearty Care, to Avoid every Thing which His Light shining in our Soul shall condemn as an Evil Thing.