N01899:280
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
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The Lord's Supper is ordinarily Administered in that Church about 7 or 8 times in a Year, and Discipline is in some measure kept up in it. Unto this End, besides other Church Meetings, there is constantly on the Thursday or Friday before that Sacrament is Administered, a Meeting of the Church, wherein such are suspended from the Lord's Table as having been over-taken in any fault, have not given due satisfaction. At this Meeting also there is ordinarily a Sermon Preached suitable to the occasion.
The Lord's Supper is ordinarily Administredin that Church about 7 or 8 times in a Year, and Discipline is in some measure kept up in it. Unto this End, besides other Church Meetings, there is constantly on the Thursday or Friday before that Sacrament is Administred, a Meeting of the Church, wherein such are suspended from the Lord's Table as having been over-taken in any fault, have not given due satisfaction. At this Meeting also there is ordinarily a Sermon Preached suitable to the occasion.
It must be acknowledged, that as the Indians are many of them much addicted unto strong drink; so some of the Members of the Indian Church have been sometimes found very faulty, on this account; yet it is also true, that such as these have generally appeared very Penitent. And tho' some have fallen quite away, and so have been cut off by the Sword ⟨p. 91⟩of Discipline; yet others through' the Grace of GOD, have been so far recovered out of the Sins into which they have fallen, as that it may be hoped they will not again return to them; and there have all along been, and still are, a considerable number, whose Conversation is, so far as I can understand, very blameless, and who may be justly looked upon as Exemplary Christians; what ever such English Men as are filled with Prejudices against the Indians, may say to the contrary.
It must be acknowledged, that as the Indians are many of them much addicted unto strong drink; so some of the Members of the Indian Church have been sometimes found very faulty, on this account; yet it is also true, that such as these have generally appeared very Penitent. And tho' some have fallen quite away, and so have been cut off by the Sword