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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.
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With so saying, I will add, That I would, if I had Opportunity, bespeak the Prayers of the Faithful abroad in the World, for our own Affair, in such Terms, as are used for Theirs, by the College of Great Men, whom the King of Denmark has lately Incorporated, for the Propagation of the Gospel in the East-Indies; and who on the occasion thereof are also doing some New Things to Christianize their own Finlanders. The words used by these Great Men, in the Instrument lately Published by them, are such, as I would if I could address very many People with. Say they, Private Persons, who make Conscience of daily addressing their Heavenly Father in Secret, are Entreated to Remember this work, as a proper Subject in their constant Prayers and Supplications. The more fervent they are in their Addresses to GOD, the greater we trust will be the Blessings of Almighty GOD upon the whole Undertaking.
With so saying, I will add, That I would, if I had Opportunity, bespeak the Prayers of the Faithful abroad in the World, for our own Affair, in such Terms, as are used for Theirs, by the College of Great Men, whom the King of Denmark has lately Incorporated, for the Propagation of the Gospel in the East-Indies; and who on the occasion thereof are also doing some New Things to Christianize their own Finlanders. The words used by these Great Men, in the Instrument lately Published by them, are such, as I would if I could address very many People with. Say they, Private Persens, who make Conscience of daily addressing their Heavenly Father in Secret, are Entreated to Remember this work, as a proper Subject in their constant Prayers and Supplications. The more fervent they are in their Addresses to GOD, the greater we trust will be the Blessings of Almighty GOD upon the whole Undertaking.
Indeed, I despair of any very Great Matters to be done, for the Spreading of the Gospel, thro' the World, until the Israelitish Nation be Returned unto their Land, and Converted unto their GOD. The Camp in the ⟨p. 47⟩Wilderness cannot get much forward, until the Leprosy of Miriam shall be taken off, and the Rejected Lady be Restored. Our Prayers for that Happy Revolution ought mightily to be Excited and Enlarged. But yet, Let us be doing what we can!