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Remarks on an Anonymous Tract, Entitled an Answer to Dr. Mayhew's Observations on the Charter and Conduct of the Society for the Propagation of the Go - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1764. Excerpt: ... the great benefit of the British colonies, had not the Society been so deeply engaged, and spent so much of their revenue, in supporting and increasing the episcopal party, as such, in New-England. What the gentleman has offered as to Mr. (now Dr.) Barclay's million to the Iroquois, his small encouragement from the Society, and being refused a school-master and interpreter to assist him, appears to.me unfatisfactory. I will not, however, spend time in controverting that matter; but am willing all fliould form a judgment, by comparing the extracts from Mr. Barclay's own letters in the Observations, with what this gentleman has offered upon the point. He proceeds, page 49, 50 and 51, to speak of what the Society has done for the support of God's public worship in the unprovided colonies. I shall not go into a particular consideration of what he has offered upon this head; partly, to avoid prolixity, and partly because it is sufficient for my purpose, if those colonies and the natives have Actually had so much the less care taken of, and the less money employed for their benefit, in proportion to what has been taken of, and expended for, the NewEngland Episcopalians; which is undeniable, since this money could not be employed in both these ways at once. Let me, however, just observe, that I can prove by a substantial living witness, that I received the account given by me of the repeated ineffectual applications of the North Carolinians to the Society for missionaries, from a gentleman of principal distinction cf that country; tho' I did not recollect, when I wrote the Observations, that I could bring any person to attest to the truth of it, and spoke with a degree of caution, being unwilling to trust my own memory too far; at which this grave gentleraao is ...
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