| John Aikin - Biography - 1813 - 720 pages
...Tennison to the archiépiscopal see of Canterbury, Dr. Prideaux addressed a letter to him, containing " An Account of the English Settlements in the East...Propagation of Christianity in «those parts of the World." Two years after •this he was instituted, on the presentation of the Dean and Chapter of Norwich,... | |
| Charles Webb Le Bas - Missions - 1831 - 528 pages
...in the Protestant religion." It was also CHAP. provided that these ministers should be approved ^^J^ by the Bishop of London, and consequently, 1813, should...care of the Dutch to promote the honour of God in CHAP. those regions, and the total neglect of that duty .*,v^ by the English. He complains that, while... | |
| Charles Webb Le Bas - 1831 - 542 pages
...provided that these ministers should be approved ^v~ by the Bishop of London, and consequently, 18I3should be of the Established Church. These enactments are...care of the Dutch to promote the honour of God in CHAP. those regions, and the total neglect of that duty ^v^ by the English. He complains that, while... | |
| 1839 - 550 pages
...in the year 1694, five years after the accession of William and Mary, Dean Prideaux drew up a paper, entitled "An account of the English settlements in...propagation of Christianity in those parts of the world." Contrasting the religious apathy of the nation with the religious vigour of the Dutch, he proposed,... | |
| Peter Percival - 1854 - 582 pages
...learned Dr. Prideaux, Dean of Nor•wich, drew up a paper entitled, An Account of the English Settlement in the East Indies, together with some Proposals for...Christianity in those parts of the World. In that paper the writer ascribes the superior prosperity of the Dutch to their greater solicitude to promote the... | |
| Theology - 1878 - 832 pages
...at them. But we must put to his credit the paper entitled " An Account of the English Settlements of the East Indies, together with some proposals for...Propagation of Christianity in those parts of the world." For Humphrey Prideaux was a tolerable Orientalist for his day, though a miserable timeserver, and full... | |
| James Edward Gillespie - Great Britain - 1920 - 396 pages
...more responsibility in the matter than the English did. Dr. Prideaux, Dean of Norwich, drew up a paper in 1694 entitled, " An Account of the English Settlements...Propagation of Christianity in those parts of the World." In this he complains that, while the Dutch settlements were provided with missionaries and in their factories... | |
| Stephen Neill - Religion - 1984 - 612 pages
...notable orientalist Humphrey Prideaux, dean of Norwich (1648-1724), returned to the charge, with a work entitled. An Account of the English settlements in...propagation of Christianity in those parts of the world. Like Fell, Prideaux points to the example of the Dutch, and contrasts it with the negligence of the... | |
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