N01899:248
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.
First, We Declare to these Heathens, One only True GOD, who has manifested Himself in Three Persons: Fairly Noting to them therewithal, what Blessings each Person has given forth to Men, & will bestow upon them.
Next, We treat of Man, considering him according to his Fourfold State; while we show, in how Blessed a State he was, while he yet shone with the Image of GOD which was Concreated with him: Then, How, or in what way, he lost that Image of GOD, and put on the Visage of Satan, and of his own Accord run headlong into wickedness.
Next, How GOD sent His most Beloved and Only Son into the World, that he might bring us by Repentance out of that Cursed State, unto which every one is by Nature liable, into a State of Grace; that so being translated into a State of Grace, we may be willing to have the Image of GOD recovered in our Souls; seeking for our Righteousness in CHRIST alone, by Faith, which working by love, we may carefully walk on in a life pure from Vices, and in the daily Exercise of Godliness; and grow more and more into the Likeness and Resemblance of our SAVIOUR.