N01899:32
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 are told, Psal. CXIX. 165. Great Peace have they that Love thy Law. If the Trumpets of the Gospel have our Love, they will then speak our Peace, cause our Peace. The Fruit of the Lips, that blow in those Trumpets, is, Peace, Peace, and all the Blessings of Goodness!
Thirdly. There are People who Believe the Joyful sound. We read of, the Good Seed, falling into good and Honest Hearts; Thus there is the Good Sound coming into Good and Honest Ears. There are some, that find no Jars in the Sound of the Silver Trumpets; They raise no Disputes about it; they start no Cavils upon it. It was a noble Confession of Faith; Act. XXIV. 14. I worship GOD, Believing ⟨p. 14⟩all things, which are written in the Law and the Prophets. Thus, There are People who Live unto GOD, and Live by the Faith of the Son of GOD; And it is because, they Believe all things that are Sounded in the Trumpets of the Gospel. About the Trumpets that Sounded on Sinai, it was the persuasion of the Godly People in all after ages; Lord, Thou spakest with them from Heaven, and gavest them Right Judgments. Truly, In the Trumpets that we have Sounding from Zion, we have the Lord speaking from Heaven unto us, and we have Right Judgments in them. This is the persuasion of the People that Know Right Judgments. They embrace the Gospel, with Reason satisfied, and Faith established.
Thirdly. There are People who Believe the Joyful sound. We read of, the Good Seed, falling into good and Honest Hearts; Thus there is the Good Sound coming into Good and Honest Ears. There are some, that find no Jarrs in the Sound of the Silver Trumpets; They raise no Disputes about it; they start no Cavils upon it. It was a noble Confession of Faith; Act. XXIV. 14. I worship GOD, Believing ⟨p. 14⟩