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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.
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⟩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 Forlo•n People in the Western World now said, Thro' the Tender-Mercy of our GOD, the Day-Spring from on high has Visited us.
AND now, tho' ELIOT, and those that followed him, in the First Essays, to bring the Light unto the Nations, that were doomed unto Outward Darkness, be Dead, yet there has been a Succession of worthy Englishmen, who have gone on with the Essays; And there are Indians also, who are constant Preachers of the Gospel unto their Countrymen; so that the Good Work having Obtained Help from GOD, and having triumphed over the Plots of Ill-affected Men to divert from it the European Waters that nourish it, it continues to this Day.
AND now, tho' ELIOT, and those that follow'd him, in the First Essays, to bring the Light unto the Nations, that were doomed unto Outward Darkness, be Dead, yet there has been a Succession of worthy Englishmen, who have gone on with the Essays; And there are Indians also, who are constant Preachers of the Gospel unto their Countrymen; so that the Good Work having Obtained Help from GOD, and having triumphed over the Plots of Ill-affected Men to divert from it the European Waters that nourish it, it continues to this Day.