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A38196 An act for the promoting and propagating the gospel of Jesus Christ in New England England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. 1649 (1649) Wing E2505A; ESTC R29774 3,464 6

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AN ACT For the promoting and propagating the GOSPEL OF Jesus Christ IN NEW ENGLAND WHereas the Commons of England assembled in Parliament have received certain intelligence by the testimonial of divers faithfull and godly Ministers and others in New-England That divers the Heathen Natives of that Country through the blessing of God upon the pious care and pains of some godly English of this Nation who preach the Gospel to them in their own Indian Language who not onely of Barbarous are become Civil but many of them forsaking their accustomed Charms and Sorceries and other Satanical Delusions do now call upon the Name of the Lord and give great testimony of the power of God drawing them from death and darkness into the life and light of the glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ which appeareth by their diligent attending on the Word so preached unto them with tears lamenting their mis-spent lives teaching their Children what they are instructed in themselves being careful to place their said Children in godly English Families and to put them to English Schooles betaking themselves to one wife putting away the rest and by their constant prayers to Almighty God morning and evening it their families expressed in all appearance with much Devotion and Zeal of heart All which considered we cannot but in behalf of the Nation represent rejoyce and give glory to God for the beginning of so glorious a propagation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ amongst those poor heathen which cannot be prosecuted with that expedition and further success as is desired unless fit instruments be encouraged and maintained to pursue it Universities Schooles and Nurseries of literature setled for further instructing and civilizing them Instruments and Materials fit for labor and clothing with other necessaries as incouragements for the best deserving among them be provided and many other things necessary for so great a work the furnishing of all which will be a burthen too heavy for the English there who although willing yet unable having in a great measure exhausted their Estates in laying the Foundations of many hopeful Towns and Colonies in a desolate Wilderness and therefore conceive our selves of this Nation bound to be helpful in the promoting and advancing of a work so much tending to the honor of Almighty God Be it therefore Enacted and it is hereby Enacted by this present Parliament and by the authority therof That for the furthering so good a work and for the purposes aforesaid from henceforth there shall be a Corporation in England consisting of sixteen persons viz. a President Treasurer and fourteen Assistants And that William Steel Esq Harbert Pelham Esq James Sherley Abraham Babington Robert Houghton Richard Hutchinson George Dun Robert Tomson William Mullins John Hodgson Edward Parks Edward Clud and Richard Lloyd Thomas Ares John Stone and Edward Winslow Citizens of London be the first sixteen persons whereof the said Corporation shall consist out of whom the said sixteen persons at such time and place as they shall think fit by themselves or the greater number of them shall elect and choose one of the said sixteen persons to be President and another of them to be the present Treasurer and ●●at the said sixteen persons or the greater number of them shall have power and are hereby authorized at any time or times to Elect a new President Treasurer or Assistants so often and from time to time as any the said President Treasurer and assistants shall dye or be amoved which said President Treasurer and Assistants for the time being shall for ever hereafter in name and fact be one Body Politique and Corporate in Law to all intents and purposes and shall have perpetual Succession and shall be called by the name of the President and Society for propagation of the Gospel in New-England and shall be from time to time Eligible as aforesaid and by that name they and their Successors shall and may without License in Mortmain Purchase or Acquire to themselves any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments in England or Wales not exceeding the yearly value of Two thousand pounds and any goods and sums of money whatsoever to the uses and purposes herein limited and expressed and sue or plead and be sued or impleaded by the name aforesaid in all Courts and places of Judicature in England or Wales And that the persons of the said Corporation or any nine of them shall have power and are hereby authorized when they shall think fit to make and appoint a common Seal for the use of the said Corporation and from time to time to meet and choose such Officers and make such allowance to them and them also to remove and after death or removal to choose such others and to make from time to time such Orders and By-Laws for the better ordering and carrying on of this work as they shall think fir and also to make conclusive bargains for Lands and Tenements to be purchased by the said Corporation for valuable consideration And for the better ordering of the Government of the said Corporation Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid That the President or Treasurer and foure or more Assistants shall and may from time to time upon summons from the President or Treasurer hold a meeting for the debating and concluding of affaires concerning the Collecting and bringing in the profits and revenues to the said Corporation accrewing into their Treasurie and for direction in all emergent occasions execution of all Orders and By-Laws and for Summons of a generall meeting of all the Society as the cause shall require In all which the conclusion shall be made by the said President or Treasurer and the said Assistants or the major part of them the said President or Treasurer and Assistants so meeting and that they shall and may adjourn their meeting from time to time as shall be by them deemed most expedient And it is Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Commissioners of the United Colonies of New-Engl in New-England for the time being by themselves or such as they shall appoint shall have hereby Power and authority to receive and dispose of the monies brought in and paid to the said Treasurer for the time being or any other moneys goods and commodities acquired and delivered by the care of the said Corporation at any time Whose Receipt or the Reccipts of such person and Persons so authorised by them shall be a sufficient discharge to the said Corporation and Treasurer Which said Commissioners are hereby Ordered and appointed to dispose of the said monies in such manner as shall best and Principally conduce to the Preaching and propagating the Gospell of Jesus Christ amongst the Natives And also for maintaining of Schooles and Nurseries of Learning for the better Education of the children of the Natives And forasmuch as we cannot but be induced from the consideration of the Premises to recommend the furthering thereof to the charity of all such whose hearts God shall incline thereunto by their Christian and charitable contributions to be as the Foundation of so Pious and great an undertaking Be it therefore and it is hereby Enacted by the Parliament assembled and by the authority thereof That a generall Co●ection 〈…〉 all the counties cities Towns and Parishes of England and Wales And for the more speedy and better effecting thereof Be it Enacted by the authority aforesaid That the severall Ministers within the said severall places are hereby required to read this Act or a copy thereof in the presence of their severall congregations upon the next Lords Day after the same shall be delivered unto them and to exhort the People to a chearfull and lyberall contribution and are to give their best asistance to so pious a worke and the Ministers and church-wardens or Overseers of the Poor of every such Parish and place together with such other well-affected Persons as God shall stir up to be active in such an undertaking and as shall be nominated and aproved by the Minister for that purpose are hereby authorised after the reading hereof to go with all convenient speed from house to house to every of the Inhabitants of the said Parishes and Places respectively and to take the Subscription of every such person in a Schedule to be presented by them for that purpose and accordingly at the same time to collect and gather the same A Duplicate whereof as also the money so to be collected shall be paid within ten daies after the collection so made into the hands of Persons of quallity resident in each County specially deputed by the said Corporation under their common Seale to be Treasurers for the receiving of the sane and the names of such respective Treasurers shall be notified in writing to every place wheresoever such collection is to be made and the receipt under the land of such respective Treasurer so appointed and authorised shall be a sufficient discharge for the said severall Ministers churchwardens and Overseers for the collection by them payd Provided all-waies That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not be construed to extend to the enabling or allowing of transportation of any Gold Silver Plate Bullion Money or other commodities inhibited by the Lawes and Statutes of this Nation other or otherwise then according to the said Lawes and Statutes and the true sence and meaning of them Hen Scobell Cleric Parliamenti Die Veneris 27 July 1649. ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament That this Act be forthwith printed and published Hen Scobell Cleric Parliamenti THe Corporation within mentioned desire all men to take notice That all such whom God shall stir up to contribute to help forward this great worke may repaire to Coopers Hall in London where the said Corporation 〈…〉 have the sight of their bookes how the Moneys collected and received for the use above-said are from time to time disposed and improved according to the true intent and meaning of the said Act. London Printed for Edward Husband Printer to the Parliament of England and are to be sold at his Shop in Fleetstreet at the Sign of the Golden-Dragon nere the Inner-Temple 1649.