. Colonial Virginia . that, the Church reformedand in all this time of the Gospel (wherein the seed of theScripture hath so long been sown), they may be better dis-used by little and little than more and more urged. , in his English Colonization of America, quoting theabove statement, adds the following: The son of such afather was not the man to press for a literal conformity toecclesiastical canons, and was ready to encourage any sin-cere minister of Christ to take up his abode in Virginia. The extent of this Puritan influence is further illustratedin the work and life of the Bennetts
. Colonial Virginia . that, the Church reformedand in all this time of the Gospel (wherein the seed of theScripture hath so long been sown), they may be better dis-used by little and little than more and more urged. , in his English Colonization of America, quoting theabove statement, adds the following: The son of such afather was not the man to press for a literal conformity toecclesiastical canons, and was ready to encourage any sin-cere minister of Christ to take up his abode in Virginia. The extent of this Puritan influence is further illustratedin the work and life of the Bennetts, of whom there wereseveral. In the year 1621 a Mr. Edwin Bennett, an influ-ential citizen of London (who had been made, on motion ofSir Edwin Sandys, a free member of the Virginia Company,on account of services he had rendered in promoting the in-terests of the colony, and especially on account of the paperwhich he had submitted to the House of Commons urgingthe prohibition of Spanish tobacco), made a settlement near. THE CHURCH IN THE WILDERNESS. 201 the Isle of Wight. This settlement was made on the Nan-semond River. The minister accompanying that colony wasthe Rev. William Bennett. He remained for two years was succeeded by Rev. Henry Jacob, who had been inhis youth a preceptor at Christ Church College, at Oxford,had spent some time visiting Leyden and had really beenconverted to the faith of the Puritans, and who, on his re-turn, established the first independent church in died after a brief residence in Virginia. To this group of ministers laboring in the Nansemondsettlement was added Rev. Richard Bennett, a nephew ofEdwin Bennett. In connection with these ministers alsolabored the Rev. Thomas Harrison, who was at first a mem-ber of the Established Church and the chaplain of LordBerkeley, by whom, on account of his dissenting views, hewas finally expelled from the The settlement atNansemond became the great centre of the dissenting idea,and was
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