N01899:220
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.
In Collegio Biblico sumitur liber aliquis totus, •t quidem ex Novo-foedere, in quo illis ostenditur, quot parts unicuique capitulo insint; postea per partes itur, et ip•i Catechetae dogmata quaedam cum applicatione usque conjuncta, inde eruunt. In proponendo autem ita procedunt, ut primo res exponant et contextum, deinde, his pofitis, ad propriam animae aedificationem ea applicant, quae huic potissimum inservire videntur. Qua Methodo autem eo imprimis collimatur, et illi ipsi partim solidiorem firmioremque de veritate ex sacris literis ⟨p. 83⟩acquirant cognitionem, partim vero ut majorem inde habilitatem induant pro concione, data occasion dicendi, imo inter gentes veritatem divinam aliquando proponendi.
In Collegio Biblico sumitur liber aliquis totus, •t quidem ex Novo-foedere, in quo illis ostenditur, quot partes unicuique capitulo insint; postea per partes itur, et ip•i Catechetae dogmata quaedam cum applicatione usque conjuncta, inde eruunt. In proponendo autem ita procedunt, ut primo res exponant et contextum, deinde, his pofitis, ad propriam animae aedificationem ea applicant, quae huic potissimum inservire videntur. Qua Methodo autem eo imprimis collimatur, et illi ipsi partim solidiorem firmioremque de veritate ex sacris literis ⟨p. 83⟩acquirant cognitionem, partim vero ut majorem inde habilitatem induant pro concione, data occasione dicendi, imo inter gentes veritatem divinam aliquando proponendi.
In Collegio Exegetico hactenus dicta tantum Biblica tractavimus, in quibus expositionem juxta regulas hermeneuticas illis suppeditantes porismata quaedam ad rem facientia eruimus, et quando ejusmodi dicta disposition aliqua enucleavimus, quam prius calamo excipiunt, Meditationi postea eorum in totum committimus. Unde fieri solet, ut ea, quae secum sunt Meditati, die dominica memoriter recitent, et loco Sermonis pro concione publice proponant.