N01899:228
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.
Sub typographiae nostrae prelo quotidie sudat Vetus illud Testamentum in lingua Damulica.
Mola haec nostra papyro conficiendo apta tantum chartae praebet, quanti ad nostrum usum quotidie indigemus.
Quod attinet ad Missiones illas Papales in hac nostra India, opinion certe numerosiores sunt, ita ut bis mille hinc illinc circumambulare dicantur: verum proh dolour, gens ⟨p. 86⟩ethnica delusa ex tenebris ad tenebras, et ab una ad alteram-Idolatriam transfertar, nihil omnino utilitatis in CHRISTO verae sentiens; ne dicam quod Gentilismus Papismo nefarie inseratur.
Quod attinet ad Missiones illas Papales in hac nostra India, opinione certe numerosiores sunt, ita ut bis mille hinc illinc circumambulare dicantur: verum proh dolor, gens ⟨p. 86⟩ethnica delusa ex tenebris ad tenebras, et ab una ad alteram-Idolatriam transfertar, nihil omnino utilitatis in CHRISTO verae sentiens; ne dicam quod Gentilismus Papismo nefarie inseratur.