N01899:216
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.
(c) Quomodo autem DEUS filium suum dilectissimum unicum in hunc mundum miserit ad nos ex statu Maledictionis, cui natura quilibet subest, in statum Gratiae per veram poenitentiam vindicandos, ut translocati in statu gratiae iterum imaginem DEI in pectoribus erigi patiamur, in CHRISTO solo nostram quaerentes justitiam, per fidem quae per amorem efficax est in vita vitiis pura exercitioquc Pietatis quotidiano cautius incedamus, et magis magisque ad similitudinem et instar nostri Sospitatoris propius accedamus.
(d) Inculcamus, quod illi tantum, qui hac in vita per Christum in Gratiae statum vera ⟨p. 81⟩mentis immutatione transierunt, et ad fin•musque in fide permanent, soli participes sint spe• haereditatis illius fidelibus in luce olim manifestandae, quae aeterna existit beatitas.
Hunc ordinem salutis ubique observamus, ita ut non modo in lingua Damul•ca, quando ad Damulos loquimur, sed etiam in lingua Lusitanica, quando ex origine Lusitanorum ortis, aut mancipiis Christianos Dominos habentibus, imo ipsis Europaeis in lingua Germanico Verbum DEI proponimas, hano nobis legem ita tractandi usque praescribamus. Quapropter quae nobiscum hic aguntur et in praedicando, et in docendo, et in examinando et in colloquendo privatissime, omnia eo prorsus collimant, ut homines ad veram paenitentiam, ad fidem vivam, ad Pietatem haud fucatam admoneamus, excitemas atque exstimulemus: DEUM ardentissimis invocantes precibus, ut tales Missionarios extrudere velit, quorum haec cura sit maxima quomodo oves ad optimum pascuum JESU CHRISTI deducantur, et ex fonte Israelis purissimo reficiantur unice.