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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.
Those Presents of Gold from your young Gentlemen, I have Distributed unto the Youth in our Charity Schools. GOD the best Rewarder, will render to every one according to his Work. And, that GOD would more and more adorn the Souls of these Young Gentlemen with a Clothing of wrought Gold; This is what is in the Prayers and Hopes of our Youth for them; who also render very great Thanks unto their Benefactors.
In the mean time, While these things are doing, and while Bartholomew Ziegenbalgh leaves Earth for Heaven, a Merciful GOD has remembered His Work of this Mission here in the midst of all its Troubles. For through His Governing Providence at the same time three Candidates for the Mission are sent unto us; who being endued with true Piety, industriously spend all their Time in Learning the Damulick Tongue. And so, as soon as they have attained a Competent Skill in this Malabarick Language, there will be Four of us who are principally employed in the ⟨p. 79⟩Conversion of the Nations, endeavouring to bring them out of Darkness into the True Worship of GOD. But since the Harvest of the Lord here is Great, and Four Missionaries are not enough, we have in this Year made known our Desires to the Curators of the Mission in Europe, about sending over Four Candidates more unto us; making in the mean time our most humble Supplication unto our GOD, that He would please anon to send yet more Labourers to us in this His so very large an Harvest.
In the mean time, While these things are doing, and while Bartholomew Ziegenbalgh leaves Earth for Heaven, a Merciful GOD has remembred His Work of this Mission here in the midst of all its Troubles. For through His Governing Providence at the same time three Candidates for the Mission are sent unto us; who being endued with true Piety, industriously spend all their Time in Learning the Damulick Tongue. And so, as soon as they have attained a Competent Skill in this Malabarick Language, there will be Four of us who are principally employed in the ⟨p. 79⟩