N01899:261
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 our Schools, where all things are dispensed upon free-cost, there are fourscore Children daily fed; Enjoying such Victuals and Garments as may be necessary for them. Unto the rest, there is most willingly allowed the Benefit of Instruction, and such Books as they may want, without their paying of any thing for it.
Our Press is now every day at work upon the Old Testament in the Damulick Tongue.
Our Paper-Mill here, yields us as much Paper as we have daily occasion for.
As to the Popish Missions in this our India, they are thought more Numerous than ours; insomuch that they say, there are no less than Two Thousand who here go to and fro in the Earth: But, alas, the deluded Heathen ⟨p. 86⟩People, is translated out of Darkness into Darkness, and from one Idolatry to another, without the least sense of the Good that in a CHRIST is to be met withal: That I may not say, Paganism is wickedly grafted into Popery.