N01899:67
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.
This Great Light had several Satellites waiting on it; Primers, and Grammars, and Catechisms, and The Practice of Piety, and, our BAXTERS Call to the Unconverted, and some other Composures. Unto which Indian-Library, there have been since added, The Confession of Faith; and, An Epistle giving the Indians an Account of what the English desire them to Know and to Do, in order to their Happiness: And, A Discourse concerning the Institution and the Observation of the LORDS-DAY; And, Family-Religion Excited and Assisted; And, A Monitor for Communicants. Doubtless there have been some Souls to be brought unto Life, where the Living Waters from the Sanctuary were to run in such Streams as these.
This Great Light had several Satellits waiting on it; Primers, and Grammars, and Catechisms, and The Practice of Piety, and, our BAXTERS Call to the Unconverted, and some other Composures. Unto which Indian-Library, there have been since added, The Confession of Faith; and, An Epistle giving the Indians an Account of what the English desire them to Know and to Do, in order to their Happiness: And, A Discourse concerning the Institution and the Observation of the LORDS-DAY; And, Family-Religion Excited and Assisted; And, A Monitor for Communicants. Doubtless there have been some Souls to be brought unto Life, where the Living Waters from the Sanctuary were to run in such Streams as these.
It was an odd Ceremony and Superstition in some ancient Baptisms, that when they Renounced Satan, they turned their Faces to the West, where the Sun sets in Darkness; ⟨p. 33⟩But Professing their Faith in our SAVIOUR, they turned their Faces to the East, the Region where Light arises. We now have seen the Sun Rising in the West; A Forlorn People in the Western World now said, Thro' the Tender-Mercy of our GOD, the Day-Spring from on high has Visited us.
It was an odd Ceremony and Superstition in some ancient Baptisms, that when they Renounced Satan, they turned their Faces to the West, where the Sun sets in Darkness; ⟨p. 33⟩