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However small the propagation of the gospel among the Heathen here in America has been hitherto, yet I think we may well look upon the discovery of so great a part of the world as America, and bringing the gospel into it, as one thing by which divine providence is preparing the way for the future glorious times of the church; when Satan's kingdom shall be overthrown, not only throughout the Roman empire, but throughout the whole habitable globe, on every side, and on all its continents. When those times come, then doubtless the gospel, which is already brought over into America, shall have glorious success, and all the inhabitants of this new discovered world shall become subjects of the kingdom of Christ, as well as all the other ends of the earth: and in all probability providence has so ordered it, that the mariner's compass, which was an invention of later times, whereby men are enabled to sail over the widest ocean, when before they durst not venture far from land; should prove a preparation for what God intends to bring to pass in the glorious times of the church, viz. the sending forth the gospel where-ever any of the children of men dwell, how far soever off, and however separated by wide oceans from those parts of the world which are already Christianized.

[2] There has of late years been a very considerable propagation of the gospel among the Heathen in the dominions of Muscovy. I have already observed the reformation which there has lately been among those who are called Christians there: but I now speak of the Heathen. Great part of the vast dominions of the Emperor of Muscovy are gross Heathens The greater part of Great Tartary, a Heathen country, has in later times been brought under the Muscovite government; and there have been of late great numbers of those Heathens who are renounced their Heathenism, and have embraced the Christian religion.

[3] There has been lately a very considerable propagation of the Christian religion among the Heathen in the East Indies; particularly, many in a country in the East-Indies called Malabar, have been brought over to the Christian Protestant religion, chiefly by the labours of certain missionaries sent thither to instruct them by the King of Denmark, who have brought over many Heathens to the Christian faith, and have set up schools among them, and a printing ress to print Bibles and othe books for their instruction, in their own language, with great success.