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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77274	Proposals for the incouragement and promoting of religion and learning in the foreign plantations and to induce such of the clergy of this kingdom, as are persons of sobriety and abilities, to accept of a mission into those parts.	Bray, Thomas, 1658-1730.; Lawrence, Thomas, Sir, b. ca. 1645. Present state of the Protestant religion in Mary-land.	1696-1697 (1697)	Wing B4296aA; ESTC R231814	4,511	4

will very much tend to Propagate Christian Knowledge in the Indies being it will in all likelihood invite some of the more Studious and Vertuous Persons out of the Vniversities to undertake the Ministry in those Parts and will be a means of rendring 'em useful when they are there And therefore as we shall contribute chearfully towards Promoting of these Parochial Libraries so we hope that many Pious Persons will be found who out of Love to Religion and Learning will also contribute thereunto Tho. Cantuar. Jo. Ebor. H. Lond. W. Cov. and Litch J. Norwich THE PRESENT STATE OF The Protestant Religion IN MARY-LAND Stands Thus. IN the Year 1691. His Majesty having graciously thought fit to take the Government of MARY-LAND into his own hands and the Province into his Immediate Care In May 1692. an Act of Assembly pass'd for the Establishment of the Protestant Religion there and for dividing of the TEN-COVNTIES thereof into Five and twenty Parishes each of which one with another are endowed with an Yearly Income of nigh Twenty thousand Pounds of Tabaco to be raised perpetually by a Yearly Assessment of 40 Pound per Pole upon all the taxable Persons in the Country the Profits of which Tabaco till such time as a sufficient Supply of Ministers shall be sent Viz. All which will Arise over and above what shall go for the Maintenance of Six Divines sent thither already with the present Governor by my LORD BISHOP of LONDON his pious Care there being but three before in the Country are Appointed for the Building of Churches in every Parish But the Execution of that Act hath been in a manner wholly neglected till it pleas'd His MAJESTY to confer the Government on the most Worthy and Excellent Person FRANCIS NICHOLSON Esq who since his Arrival in Aug. 1694. with an indefatigable Industry and Zeal to promote his MAJESTY's Honour the Int'rest of the Protestant Religion and the Good of the whole Province hath Revived and Reinforc'd the said Act by another Additional one for the Increase and Maintenance of Religion hath Collected the Arrears and is now Building a Fine Church at ANNOPOLIS in ARVNDEL County and by Midsummer next will besides four or five which were begun before have nine or ten Churches in very good forwardness with ma many Parsonage-Houses to the Building of each of which as of all the rest His EXCELLENCY hath given 5 l. Sterling and His Majesty's SECRETARY ten thousand Pounds of Tabaco to ten of the said Houses viz. one in each County And that a perpetual Succession of Protestant Divines of the CHURCH OF ENGLAND may be provided for the Propagation of the True Christian Religion in the said Colony His EXCELLENCY hath by the Consent of the Council and Burgesses in Assembly promoted a Law now humbly offered to His MAJESTY together with two Acts for Establishing the Protestant Religion according to the CHVRCH OF ENGLAND for His Royal Confirmation at his EXCLLENCY's Charge vesting a Power er in certain Trustees for Erecting one Free-School in each County under the Patronage of his Grace the LORD ARCH-BISHOP of CANTERBVRY One of which is already begun at ANNOPOLIS towards the Building of which his EXCELLENCY hath given 50 l. Sterling the Secretary 5000 the Council 15000 and the Burgesses 45000 Pounds of Tobacco And it is to be Endowed with 100 l. Sterling per Annum for the Maintenance of one Master and two Ushers to whom his EXCELLENCY will at present allow 25 l. Sterling per Annum during his Government and the Secretary 2000 Pounds of Tobacco so long as he continues in his Office for instructing the Youth of the said Province in ARITHMETICK NAVIGATION and all USEFUL LEARNING but chiefly for the fitting such as are dispos'd to Study DIVINITY to be further Educated at His Majesties COLLEGE ROYAL in VIRGINIA in order upon their Return to be Ordained by the Lord Bishop of LONDON's SUFFRAGAN Residing in the Province both for that purpose and to supervise the Lives of the Clergy thereof for whose Support also at the Request and Recommendation of the Assembly his EXCELLENCY hath settled a fair and competent Maintenance The Person now Deputed by the Lord Bishop of LONDON to be his COMMISSARY in MARY-LAND for the propagation of our most-Holy Religion amongst the Infidels for the Inducement of Sober and Serious Young Divines to go to the Foreign Plantations and for the better qualifying them for so Noble and Christian an Employment is now wholly busied in Collecting of PAROCHIAL LIBRARIES of Choice and Useful Books for the perpetual Use of such of the Clergy who shall now undertake that Voyage and for all those who shall succeed them AND certainly a more suitable Encouragement to Men of good parts and Inclinations to go upon so Blessed a Mission could not be thought of For as it is Books alone which will encourage the most Studious Vertuous and consequently the most Useful Persons to go over so it is an encouragement that is in a manner necessary to be provided in the Foreign Plantations since few or none at their first going over are in a Condition to provide themselves therewith and when they are there Books are hardly to be met with by those who shall be able to buy them And yet without a Competent Provision of several Useful and Necessary Books it is morally impossible that any should be enabl'd to instruct their People And now that such Excellent Works are Joyntly begun and carrying one What a happy Conjuncture is this which perhaps may not again recur for Persons who are Piously dispos'd to give their helping hand towards such Blessed and Glorious Designs as the propagating of true Christian Knowledge and Practice in places formenly so much Uncultivated therewith Sure if he who Converteth a single Sinner from the Error of his Ways shall hide a multitude of Sins what abundant matter for comfortable Reflections upon a Death-Bed shall that Person lay up who shall contribute towards providing of the most proper and Genuine Means next to the Divinely Inspired Writings of Converting many poor Souls not only in this but in all future Generations even so long as the Son and Moon endureth Thomas Laurence Secretary of Mary-Land Benedicat Deus Operi faventibus FINIS