This one would think should be sufficient Encouragement for _Clergymen_
of good Lives and Learning (that are not better provided for elsewhere)
to go over and settle there; if they considered rightly the little
Danger and Fatigue they may expose themselves to, the great Good they
may do, and what Advantages they may reap with good Conduct and right
Management of their Fortunes and Conversations.

The Parishes are large, but then the Inhabitants are but thin; and there
are _Chapels of Ease_ in large Parishes, at which there is divine
Service in _Turns_ with the Churches; and frequently upon a _Vacancy_
some neighbouring Clergyman does the Duty of _another Parish_ besides
his own, on some _Week-Day_, for which he has the Salary, till it can be
better supplied.

Many Disputes and Differences arise between some of the Clergy and
People; but this generally proceeds from the uncertain and precarious
Footing of Livings, and some Disputes about the Nature and Manner of the
Payment of the established Salary; which though it may be esteemed
sufficient, yet is not so well regulated, as might be wished and
expected in such a _great Colony_ of so long a _standing_, and free from
the Molestation of Church Faction, and Dissenters.

Besides the Payment of the Salary, the _Surplice Fees_ want a better
Regulation in the Payment; for though the Allowance be sufficient, yet
Differences often and Ill-Will arise about these Fees, whether they are
to be paid in Money or Tobacco, and when; whereas by a small Alteration
and Addition of a few Laws in these and the like Respects, the Clergy
might live more happy, peaceable, and better beloved; and the People
would be more easy, and pay never the more Dues.

The Establishment is indeed Tobacco, but some Parts of the Country make
but mean and poor, so that Clergymen don't care to live in such
Parishes; but there the Payment might be made in Money, or in the
Produce of those Places, which might be equivalent to the Tobacco
Payments; better for the Minister, and as pleasing to the People.

Some Clergymen are indeed unskilful in, and others are not studious of,
reconciling their own Interest and Duty with the Humour and Advantage of
the People, especially at their first coming, when many Things seem very
odd to them; being different to what they have been heretofore
accustomed to.

These Things often occasion Uneasiness to the Ministers themselves, and
the People; but for the Generality they