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Title: A Proposal for the Better Supplying of Churches in Our Foreign Plantations, and for Converting the Savage Americans to Christianity

Author: George Berkeley

Release Date: March 31, 2010 [EBook #31848]

Language: English

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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.