N01899:193
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.
I Confess. That the Extraordinary Gifts of the Holy SPIRIT are to be less esteemed of, than that Quickening Grave, by which all that have their Names written in the Book of Life, are Ordinarily Sanctified, and Live unto their GOD. I most willingly Confess, That a Soul Sanctified with the Love of GOD and of CHRIST, and of our Neighbour, is altogether to be preferred before all the Extraordinary Gifts of the Holy SPIRIT. I most readily Confess, That the Extraordinary Gifts of the Holy SPIRIT best […] upon Men are ⟨p. 73⟩Regules esse Examinanda, et si Operationes, quae videntur Miraculosae, ad quidquam contra Pietatem ducant, has esse inter Principis Tenebrarum, see in lucis Angelum transformantis Technas, prorsus rejiciendas. Concedo etiam et semper censeo, Monito Franckiano nil quicquam salubrius unquam fuisse Inculcatum; Minus two Extraordinaria Dona affectari, quippe quae ingens periculum illis, qui firmas altasque in Humilitate Radices non Egerint, (Quis autem Istud de se spondeat?) creare, per accidens quidem possint.
I Confess. That the Extraordinary Gifts of the Holy SPIRIT are to be less esteemed of, than that Quickening Grave, by which all that have their Names written in the Book of Life, are Ordinarily Sanctified, and Live unto their GOD. I most willingly Confess, That a Soul Sanctified with the Love of GOD and of CHRIST, and of our Neighbour, is altogether to be preferred before all the Extradinary Gifts of the Holy SPIRIT. I most readily Confess, That the Extraordinary Gifts of the Holy SPIRIT best 〈…〉 upon Men are ⟨p. 73⟩Regules esse Examinanda, et si Operationes, quae videntur Miraculosae, ad quidquam contra Pietatem ducant, has esse inter Principis Tenebrarum, se in lucis Angelum transformantis Technas, prorsus rejiciendas. Concedo etiam et semper censeo, Monito Franckiano nil quicquam salubrius unquam fuisse Inculcatum; Minus tu•o Extraordinaria Dona affectari, quippe quae ingens periculum illis, qui firmas altasque in Humilitate Radices non Egerint, (Quis autem Istud de se spondeat?) creare, per accidens quidem possint.