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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.
The Joyful Sound reaching to both the INDIA's. › APPLICATION.
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.
Oh! How Thankful ought we to be unto our GOD, for His Gospel, and the Ordinances of it! When the Silver-Trumpets were of old going to Sound, the Angels of GOD were heard making those Acclamations thereupon, Glory to GOD in the Highest! And shall not we give Glory to the most High GOD, on the Occasion! O Gospelized People, GOD hath ⟨p. 20⟩showed His Statutes and His Judgments unto us, Praise ye the Lord. When the Trumpets of GOD are sounding, shall not our Trumpets he sounding too? His Trumpets are in His Ordinances; our Trumpets are in our Thanksgivings. We are so called upon, Psal. XCVIII. 6. i•th Trumpets make a Joyful Noise before the Lord.
Oh! How Thankful ought we to be unto our GOD, for His Gospel, and the Ordinances of it! When the Silver-Trumpets were of old going to Sound, the Angels of GOD were heard making those Acclamations thereupon, Glory to GOD in the Highest! And shall not we give Glory to the most High GOD, on the Occasion! O Gospellized People, GOD hath ⟨p. 20⟩shewed His Statutes and His Judgments unto us, Praise ye the Lord. When the Trumpets of GOD are sounding, shall not our Trumpets he sounding too? His Trumpets are in His Ordinances; our Trumpets are in our Thanksgivings. We are so called upon, Psal. XCVIII. 6. i•th Trumpets make a Joyful Noise before the Lord.
Such a Blessed People should be a Thankful People. But verily, our GOD will not look on us as a Thankful People, if we are not also a Fruitful People. A Barren People, Oh! what a Fearful Doom are they threatened with! what a Fearful Fate are they warned of? Heb. VI. 7. It is nigh unto Cursing. Sirs, Be Fruitful in every good Work; Fruitful, and always abounding in the Work of the Lord.