N01899:81
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.
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.
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 Enterprizes have been as cool waters to our Thirsty Souls.
I will recite a passage in One of their Letters, because we may make an Application of it unto our own Affair. Whenever the Sun riseth in these Eastern Parts of the World, it is always Surrounded with Thick Glouds; the common People of the Malabarians tell us, that these Clouds are huge overgrown Giants, thro' which the Sun every Morning must fight his way, before ever it can appear ⟨p. 45⟩in its Complete Lustre, and Brightness. This is a Fancy of the Vulgar Sort of our Malabarians; But the Application we might make of it, will hold too True in every Respect, The Sun of Righteousness would fain begin to Rise, in these benighted parts of the World: But what Opposition, what Contradiction, does this Sun meet with; even from those who should help to remove the Clouds and obstacles, which hitherto have intercepted His Light and Appearance, and this too, whilst this Light but just begins to break forth, and to appear in its first Dawn and Morning Red? However, 'tis to be hoped, that the Light will triumph at last over the Powers of Darkness, and spread its Rays over all the Regions of Heathenism and Superstition.
I will recite a passage in One of their Letters, because we may make an Application of it unto our own Affair. Whenever the Sun riseth in these Eastern Parts of the World, it is always Surrounded with Thick Glouds; the common People of the Malabarians tell us, that these Clouds are huge overgrown Giants, thro' which the Sun every Morning must fight his way, before ever it can appear ⟨p. 45⟩