. An Historical account of the incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts : containing their foundation, proceedings, and the success of their missionaries in the British colonies, to the year 1728 . A N Hiftorical Account O F T H E Incorporated Society,S^cc. CHAP. I. The Occafions of the Jirfl Rife of ?or^ir^^t^: H E Britijh Colonies upon the The CaufesContinent of America^ were ^i^3^;^!^j^tj^g°^>all fettled firift by private Adventurers, under Grantsfrom the Crown, with fmallNumbers of Families. It was therefore notto be expeded that the
. An Historical account of the incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts : containing their foundation, proceedings, and the success of their missionaries in the British colonies, to the year 1728 . A N Hiftorical Account O F T H E Incorporated Society,S^cc. CHAP. I. The Occafions of the Jirfl Rife of ?or^ir^^t^: H E Britijh Colonies upon the The CaufesContinent of America^ were ^i^3^;^!^j^tj^g°^>all fettled firift by private Adventurers, under Grantsfrom the Crown, with fmallNumbers of Families. It was therefore notto be expeded that the proper Provifion,either in the Religious or Civil Concerns of B the The Occafwns of the the Inhabitants, could be at firft made. In-deed if a Colony had been planted imme-diately by the State here, it is not to bequeftioned, but proper Care had been takenthat both iliould have been duly as the firft private Adventurers labouredunder great Difficulties at their fettling,and under many Uncertainties, what theEvent would be: This, tho not a fufficientReafon, may yet be an Excufe, for their notmaking the proper Provifion in this Cafe. ATryal was firft to be made, of what Ad-vantage thefe Settlements would prove,either to the Adventurers, or Nation, beforeeither would engage themfelves in fartherExpence. Another Misfortune,
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