Une proposition pour mieux pourvoir en églises nos plantations étrangères, et…

https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) A PROPOSAL For the better Supplying of CHURCHES IN OUR _Foreign Plantations_, AND FOR Converting the Savage _Americans_ to CHRISTIANITY, By a COLLEGE to be erected in the _Summer Islands_, otherwise called the Isles of _Bermuda_. _The harvest is truly great, but the labourers are few_, Luke c. 10. v. 2. _LONDON_, Printed by H. WOODFALL, at _Elzevir's-Head_ without _Temple-Bar_: And sold by J. ROBERTS, near the _Oxford-Arms_ in _Warwick-Lane_, 1725. (Price Sixpence.) _A PROPOSAL for the better Supplying of Churches in our foreign Plantations, &c._ Although there are several excellent persons of the church of England, whose good intentions and endeavours have not been wanting to propagate the gospel in foreign parts, who have even combined into societies for that very purpose, and given great encouragement, not only for English missionaries in the West-Indies, but also, for the reformed of other nations, led by their example, to propagate christianity in the East: It is nevertheless acknowledged, that there is at this day, but little sense of religion, and a most notorious corruption of manners, in the English colonies settled on the continent of America, and the islands. It is also acknowledged, that the gospel hath hitherto made but a very inconsiderable progress among the neighbouring Americans, who still continue in much-what the same ignorance and barbarism, in which we found them above a hundred years ago. I shall therefore venture to submit my thoughts upon a point, that I have long consider'd, to better judgments, in hopes that any expedient will be favourably hearkned to, which is proposed for the remedy of these evils.…