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Have Christian Missions to India Been Successful ?
“The distance between God and the creature is so great, that although reasonable creatures do owe obedience unto him as their creator, yet they could never have any fruition of him, as their blessedness and reward but by some voluntary condescension on God's part, which he hath been pleased to express by way of covenant.
The first covenant made with man was a covenant of works wherein life was promised to Adam and in him to his posterity, upon condition of perfect and personal obedience.
Man, by his fall, having made himself incapable of life by that covenant the Lord was pleased to make a second, commonly called the covenant of grace: requiring of them faith in him, that they may be saved, and promising to give unto all those that are ordained unto life, his holy spirit, to make them willing and able to believe.
Also I find this teaching viz., “that the sinfulness of that estate where into man fell, consisted in the guilt of Adam's first sin, the want of that righteousness wherein he was created, and the corruption of his nature, whereby he is utterly indisposed, disabled and made opposite unto all that is spiritually good, and wholly inclined to all evil, and that continually; which is commonly called original sin, and from which do proceed by the fall of man through one man Adam, all men have been cursed of God and are the bond-slaves of Satan."
This is the kind of teaching which the American people are spending thousands of dollars to propagate. We, the heathens of India, fail to see the Christian God in the light of a God of love and mercy. I have no time in which to speak of the pernicious effects of the doctrine of vicarious atonement and eternal hell. But this is the Christianity offered to the poor illiterate of India. A mere outside husk of the most exoteric form and that not even the teaching of Jesus. The cruel and bloody Jewish Jehovah is only masked, not
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