N01899:199
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.
TO this Epistle, the Reverend Mr. Grundler, made the following Return; which was accompanied with a Present of the New Testament, and sundry small Treatises, in the Damul•ck Language and Letter, which were lately Printed in the East-Indies, and are the First Things that ever were so brought forth by the Press in those Parts of the World.
Viro plurimum REVERENDO, Doctissimo Ecclesiae in America Pastori, Fidelissimo ac vigilantissimo, Fautori in CHRISTO dilectissimo, Salutem dico plurimam.
EX literis tuis, Vir plurimum Reverend, quas trigesimo primo Decembris Anni 1717. ad nos exarasti, id mihi Primum observare licuit, Te esse Virum mente Jesu Christi exornatum atque in virture Ejusdem Spiritus probe incedentem, cui certe curae cordique est, ut opus illud DEI circa Conversionem et Salutem animarum non modo Tecum in India Occidentali fundetur ac in dies crescendo magis erigatur, verum etiam, ut idem nobiscum in India Orientali majora quotidie capiat incrementa, imo long lateque in omnium animas see vere insinuet, quo gens astu Satanae delusa ab idololatria sua ad verum DEI cultum brevi transferatur, atque desertis fanis, id unice curet, quomodo Sanctissimus DEUS in pectoribus fide plenis tanquam in Templo suo habitare queat.
EX literis tuis, Vir plurimum Reverende, quas trigesimo primo Decembris Anni 1717. ad nos exarasti, id mihi Primum observare licuit, Te esse Virum mente Jesu Christi exornatum atque in virture Ejusdem Spiritus probe incedentem, cui certe curae cordique est, ut opus illud DEI circa Conversionem et Salutem animarum non modo Tecum in India Occidentali fundetur ac in dies crescendo magis erigatur, verum etiam, ut idem nobiscum in India Orientali majora quotidie capiat incrementa, imo longe lateque in omnium animas se vere insinuet, quo gens astu Satanae delusa ab idololatria sua ad verum DEI cultum brevi transferatur, atque desertis fanis, id unice curet, quomodo Sanctissimus DEUS in pectoribus fide plenis tanquam in Templo suo habitare queat.