A Dialogue, Containing Some Reflections on the Late "Declaration and Remonstrance" - 15
12017-01-14T12:12:51-08:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a72001(annotation)plain2017-01-14T12:12:51-08:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aOne Word more, Gentlemen, and to come close to you, I appeal to your selves:-----Have not you, with your Ministers, often join’d in Prayer to GOD, that he would be pleas’d to send his Gospel among the Heathen? And do you not continue still to do so in your public Assemblie? And I think you cannot be ignorant that the Government at Home, as well as the Religious Societies there, have at much Pains and Expence, sent many of their Missionaries into these Parts for this laudable and Christian Purpose viz. To direct their Feet in the right Way, and to bring them to the Knowledge of the Truth as it is JESUS; and that their Labours have not been in vain, or altogether fruitless, is exceedingly evident from this Circumstance; it is well known that there are five or six Societies of converted, once Heathen or Savage Indians: And how must it hurt and retart their Progress in Christian Life, to find themselves grievously used and persecuted by their professed Christian Friends? And how do you think our SAVIOUR and common LORD must look upon this your evil and unkind Treatment of your Fellow Servants? Do you not make yourselves obnoxious to that sharp Reprehension in the 12th Chapter of St. Luke, Ver. Xlv? For shame, suffer you Eyes to be open’d, and your Hearts to become affected towards these poor suffering Exiles, and begrudge them not the scanty Pittance allow’d them by our Governor and Assembly for their present Substistance.----- I mention this, because I have heard many with ill-timed Heat, Zeal, and Ill-nature, express great Dissatisfaction against the Government for this very kind and benevolent Act of Charity, as this Juncture become so absolutely necessary and unavoidable, and which, I doubt not, our gracious and bountiful LORD takes notice of, and will reward an hundred Gold, since a Cup of Water given in his Name, shall not go unnoticed by him, tho’ bestow’d on the least or poorest of his Followers.
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12016-08-19T12:59:34-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aA Dialogue, Containing Some Reflections on the Late "Declaration and Remonstrance" - 151A Dialogue, containing some reflections on the late declaration and remonstrance, of the back-inhabitants of the province of Pennsylvania. With a serious and short address, to those Presbyterians, who (to their dishonor) have too much abetted, and conniv'd at the late insurrection. By a member of that community. [Four lines from Thomson]2016-08-19T12:59:34-07:00HSP in LCP Am 1764 Dia Ar.64 D 53Philadelphia : Printed: [by Andrew Steuart] and sold by all the pamphlet-sellers, M,DCC,LXIV. [1764]Ascribed to the press of Andrew Steuart by Hildeburn16 p. ; 17 cmEvans, C. American bibliography, 9638; English short title catalogue (ESTC), W31261; Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 1974 19741615Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a
