Two Hundred Years of the S.P.G.: An Historical Account of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 1701-1900 (Based on a Digest of the Society's Records.)

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Published at the Society's office, 1901
 

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Page iii - be, When the earth shall be filled with the glory of God, as the waters cover the sea. All we can do is nothing worth, unless God blesses the deed, Vainly we hope for the harvest, till God gives life to the seed ; Yet nearer and nearer draws the time, the
Page 459 - in anywise favoured, none molested or disquieted, by reason of their religious faith or observances, hut that all shall alike enjoy the equal and impartial protection of the law; and we do strictly charge and enjoin
Page xlv - continued till his death in 1690. Through his tracts the wants of the Indians became known in England, and so impressed was " the Long Parliament " that on July 27, 1649, an ordinance was passed establishing " A Corporation for the Promoting and Propagating the Gospel of Jesus Christ in New
Page 120 - Churches hereafter to be built within our said Island, be well and orderly kept; and that, besides a competent maintenance to be assigned to the Minister of each Orthodox Church, a convenient house be built at the public charge for each Minister; and you are in an especial manner to take care that one hundred acres of
Page 62 - without him, except in case of sickness, or that, after notice of a Vestry summoned, he omit to come. " 68. You are to enquire whether there be any Minister within your Government, who preaches and administers the Sacrament in any orthodox Church or Chapel without being in due orders, and to give
Page 459 - in authority under us that they abstain from all interference with the religious belief or worship of any of our subjects, on pain of our highest displeasure.
Page 62 - account thereof to the said Bishop of London. " 64. And to the end the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Bishop of London may take place in that Province so farr as convenienly may be, wee do think fit that you give all countenance and encouragement to the exercise of the same, excepting only the collating to benefices, granting Lycences for marriages, and
Page iii - 1701—1900. (BASED ON A DIGEST OF THE SOCIETY'S RECORDS.) BY CF PASCOE, KEEPER OF THE RECORDS. " GOD is working His purpose out, as year succeeds to year : God is working His purpose out, and the time is drawing near— Nearer and nearer draws the time, the time that shall
Page 459 - the right and the desire to impose our convictions on any of our subjects. We declare it to be our Koyal will and pleasure that
Page 62 - Reverend Father in God, the Bishop of London, of his being conformable to the doctrine and discipline of the Church of England, and of a good life and conversation. And if

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