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A history of the work of redemption. Containing the outlines of a body of…
A history of the work of redemption. Containing the outlines of a body of divinity, in a method entirely new. / By the late Reverend Mr. Jonathan Edwards, president of the College of New Jersey[.]
Boston: printed by Draper & Folsom, 1782
A HISTORY Of the WORK of REDEMPTION. › Period 3 › Part 2 › Section 1
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[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.
[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 labors 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.