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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.
We are as much at a loss about the Time, as we are about the Way. For, though we have Evidences as well as Traditions (confirming the ever-Triumphing Sentiments of our Excellent Woodward) that the Flood reached unto America, yet we have none, (except the Relics of Giants, like those at Albany should pass for such) that America was Peopled before the Flood.
We are as much at a loss about the Time, as we are about the Way. For, though we have Evidences as well as Traditions (confirming the ever-Triumphing Sentiments of our Excellent Woodward) that the Flood reached unto America, yet we have none, (except the Reliques of Giants, like those at Albany should pass for such) that America was Peopled before the Flood.
It is the Opinion of a Learned Englishman, who would fain make America to be the Seat of them that shall Think an evil Thought, in a Thing that is yet above a Thousand Years off; That when the Silver Trumpets of the Gospel, were going to Sound in the other Hemisphere, upon the Ascension of our SAVIOUR, the Devil then seduced Numbers into these Remote Regions, in hopes that the Joyful sound thereof, never would reach hither after them. The Deceiver of the Nations has been Deceived, if this were his Expectation; and that he may be more so, is that for which we now are Labouring.
Yea, The Sovereign Grace of Heaven in that for which we are now Labouring, is yet more to be Adored, if the Opinion of a Learned German should be any better than so; which is, That America was not Peopled until after the Preaching of the Gospel in the other Hemisphere, when GOD for their Contempt of it, Ordered their coming hither as into a Banishment, where they that would not be Saints, do now almost cease to be Men: A Sentence of Transportation into America, was by Heaven passed upon them. We may leave it unto a •bius to Dispute it with them.