N01899:222
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 Theologico illis ostenduntur primo Theses fundamentales secundum omnes articulos fidei; deinde illae etiam ex Scripturae dictis probantur usque firmissimis, et ut huic scopo melius inserviremus, compendium aliquod Theologicum formae Octavae in lingua hnjus gentis Damulica conscripsimus.
Faxit DEUS ille Clementissimus, Pater omnium misericordiarum, ut hoc modo hi Catechetae ita praeparentur, ut ex illis ipsis tales eligi queant, qui in posterum loco Missionariorum operi hujus Missionis praeesse possint.
Omne nostrum studium eo vergit, ut numerus eorum magis atque magis crescat, spem sic certissimam ingredientes, fore ut in ecclesia et inter gentes eorum beneficio multum utilitatis, et larga messis sit olim nobis certe futura.
Ex illis unus jam loco Antistitis Ecclesiolae in Pago aliquo praeest, alios vero Seniors, alios Exhortatores denominavimus, quorum officium in eo consistit, ut membra Ecclesiae saepius ostiatim visitent, examinent, doceant, admoneant, atque preces cum illis conjungant: aliis denique ratio ipsius corum Officij praescribit, ut convertendis et Catechumenis solidiora Christianismi fundamenta Viva Voce inculcent, atque ad altiora, jactis primo fundamentis, cum illis contendant.