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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.
O Blessed People, who so Know the Joyful sound! We remember the Speech of the Pharisees, about the People which know not the Law,—How justly to be spoken about the People, who Know not the Gospel! But then, Blessed the People, who do know it! How it thunders, in Isai. XXVII. 11. It is a People of no Understanding; Therefore He that made them will not have Mercy on them; He that formed them, will show them no Favour. But then on the other side; A People that Understand well the Joyful sound, are a People that GOD has much Mercy for; much Favour for; A People greatly Blessed of the Lord.
O Blessed People, who so Know the Joyful sound! We remember the Speech of the Pharisees, about the People which know not the Law,—How justly to be spoken about the People, who Know not the Gospel! But then, Blessed the People, who do know it! How it thunders, in Isai. XXVII. 11. It is a People of no Understanding; Therefore He that made them will not have Mercy on them; He that formed them, will shew them no Favour. But then on the other side; A People that Understand well the Joyful sound, are a People that GOD has much Mercy for; much Favour for; A People greatly Blessed of the Lord.
Secondly. There are People who Esteem the Joyful sound. They so Know it, as to Prize it; Set a vast Price upon it. In the Bible, Words of Knowledge do signify sometimes Affection too. Some so Know the Joyful sound, as to be Well-affected unto it; Yea, to Prefer it above their Chiefest Joy. There are People, who had rather be with David, where they may hear what GOD the Lord shall say unto them in the Silver Trumpets of the ⟨p. 13⟩Gospel, than be with Belshazzar, at a Bout where Golden Vessels are caroused in. They count no Melody like that which is to be heard in the Courts of the Lord: And looking on the Silver Trumpets, they say, as he, Psal. XIX. 10