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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.
But as a Testimony of your Zeal for this Good Work, and of the Sense which you have, that without the Influences of GOD our SAVIOUR we can do Nothing to purpose, You are this Day pouring out your Prayers before Him. These Prayers are doubtless a Token ⟨p. 44⟩for Good, that there may be some Reserves of Mercy, for a Remnant of the most Pitiable Ones, on whose behalf we are now concerned. If but a Few of them, should be brought into a Sincere Love of GOD and of their Neighbour, and a Living Faith on our only SAVIOUR, it will be richly worth all the Time and Cost that has been laid out upon them all. And the Acknowledgements which we now make of our Entire Dependence on the GOD of all Grace for all the Good that is to be done among them and unto them, are the most likely way for our coming to see that Sweet Thing, Our Desire accomplished.
But as a Testimony of your Zeal for this Good Work, and of the Sense which you have, that without the Influences of GOD our SAVIOUR we can do Nothing to purpose, You are this Day pouring out your Prayers before Him. These Prayers are doubtless a Token ⟨p. 44⟩for Good, that there may be some Reserves of Mercy, for a Remnant of the most Pitiable Ones, on whose behalf we are now concerned. If but a Few of them, should be brought into a Sincere Love of GOD and of their Neighbour, and a Living Faith on our only SAVIOUR, it will be richly worth all the Time and Cost that has been laid out upon them all. And the Acknowledgments which we now make of our Entire Dependence on the GOD of all Grace for all the Good that is to be done among them and unto them, are the most likely way for our coming to see that Sweet Thing, Our Desire accomplished.
While our Supplications to OUR Father are thus Engaged, we shall Remember our dear Brethren, of the Danish Mission as far off as Malabar; the Good News of whose amiable Enterprises have been as cool waters to our Thirsty Souls.