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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.
¶ WHAT has been hitherto spoken, is but an INTRODUCTION, unto the Expressions which we are this Day to make, of our concern to have the JOYFUL SOUND of the Glorious Gospel conveyed unto the Aboriginal Natives of the Good Land, which the GOD, whose is the Earth and the Fullness thereof, has bestowed upon us; Our Concern, that the Promise made unto our SAVIOUR, I will give the Heathen for thine Inheritance, and the Uttermost Parts of the Earth for thy Possession, may have a very Illustrious and Conspicuous Accomplishment, in the Arrival of our INDIANS unto the Knowledge & Service of our Great REDEEMER.
¶ WHAT has been hitherto spoken, is but an INTRODUCTION, unto the Expressions which we are this Day to make, of our concern to have the JOYFUL SOUND of the Glorious Gospel convey'd unto the Aboriginal Natives of the Good Land, which the GOD, whose is the Earth and the Fulness thereof, has bestow'd upon us; Our Concern, that the Promise made unto our SAVIOUR, I will give the Heathen for thine Inheritance, and the Uttermost Parts of the Earth for thy Possession, may have a very Illustrious and Conspicuous Accomplishment, in the Arrival of our INDIANS unto the Knowledge & Service of our Great REDEEMER.
It is utterly Unknown unto us, How and When it was, that AMERICA came to be first Peopled with the Inhabitants of that Olive Complexion, which, they say, the Biggest Part of Mankind is Coloured with. Be sure, They •ho have Entertained us, with Dissertations upon that Obscure Subject, have been ⟨p. 23⟩sufficiently Luxuriant in their Fancies; and have sometimes allowed a little Resemblance in Sound, (as, for instance, Massagetae, and Massachusetts,) to be a Sufficient Bottom for their most Confident Conjectures.
It is utterly Unknown unto us, How and When it was, that AMERICA came to be first Peopled with the Inhabitants of that Olive Complexion, which, they say, the Biggest Part of Mankind is Coloured with. Be sure, They •ho have Entertained us, with Dissertations upon that Obscure Subject, have been