N01899:207
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.
(a) Ob singularem suam industriam ac vigilantiam, qua Operi huic Missionis praeerat.
(b) Ob frequentissima illa colloquia, quae ille cum gentibus de salute in Christo unico fundamento instituebat.
(c) Ob illam translationem verbi divini in lingua gentis hujus Damulicae: utpote quem DOMINUS in hisce omnibus ad singularem usum Ecclefiae colligendae tam bonis naturae quam gratiae vel optime exornaverat.
In memoriam hujus Viri, ut testis Veri• tis, Tibi, hic offero Novum illud Testamentum in lingua Damulica, una cum aliis libellis ⟨p. 78⟩de vero Christianismo conscriptis, quae omnia aequi bonique consulas, atque instat munusculi a nobis benevole admittas, obnixe velim; utpote qui pro tuis libris ad nos missis gratias agimus maximas.