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warmly disputed validity of Lay or Anti-EptocopaHan baptisto . J . T . RUTT . A \
Archbishop Tennlson to Archbishop Sharp . Lambeth , My Loud , April 27 , 1712 . Iii pursuance of the agreement Ynade here by your Grace and the rest of my brethren the Bishops , when I
had the favour of your good companies on Easter-Tuesday , I met yesterday with some of them , and we drew up a paper suitable ( as we judged ) to the proposal then made . It is short
and plain , and , I hope , inoffensive , and for a beginning ( as I humbly conceive ) full enough . I here inclose a copy of it for the use of your Grace , and of as many others as your Grace shall think fit to shew it to . I send
the declaration unsigned , because we , who were present , desired first to have the opinions of your Grace and others , who were absent , and should be glad to know , whether you would have any thing added to it , or altered in it - , for we affect not the vanity of dogmatizing *
We hope for your Grace ' s speedy answer , ( to-morrow , if it may be , ) because the evil grows , and we have heard of more odd books and sermons since we met , and of an increase of the scrupulous , and your Grace well
knows , that the more timely the check is given , the likelier it is to have , through God ' s blessing , a good effect . I commend this weighty affair to your Grace's most serious consideration , and yourself to the protection of the great Shepherd of souls , and
rem Your Grace ' s most affectionate Servant , CANTERBURY . Endorsed , copy of my letter to A . B . Y ., April 2 / , 1712 , concerning a declaration against Rebaptization .
/> r . Sharp , Archbishop of Yorky to A rch b ish op Tennison . My Lord , April 28 , 1712 . I had the honour of your Grace ' s letter , with the declaration inclosed , the last night . I am entirely of the same sentiments that we all declared we were of , when we had the honour
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to dine with your Grace the las * weeJt But yet for all that , X <^ ua by joo means come into the proposal your Graee has now made in your letter ,
viz ., that we shoulo-alldeclare under our hands , the validity of lay-baptism $ for I am afraid < thjs would be too great an encouragement to the Dissenters , to goon in their way of irregular , uncanonical baptism .
I have , as your Grace desired me , communicated the matter to three of our brethren the Bishops , andwe have had a full discourse a ^ bout it , and are all of the same opinion , that I have nOw represented .
I am , with all sincere respects and hearty wishes of health and happiness to your Grace , Your Grace ' s nxost faithful Friend and humble Servant , JO . EBOR . Ayscough , 4292 . 67-
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Mr . Cooper on the Disposition of the Negroes to embrace Christianity . Letter III . ( For Letter 1 . see p . 217 , and Letter II . p . 297 . ) Newcastle-under-Lyrne , Sir , August 2 , 1822 .
YOUR readers will remember my stating , that during a part of the time I was in Jamaica , I paid eon * siderable attention to the instruction of the Negro children . I formed them into a class , had them to my house every day in the week , and with the assistance of Mrs . C , succeeded ia
teaching a few of them to read . At one period we had as many as twenty under our care , but this number was soon diminished , in consequence of four or five of them falling ill with an infectious disease ; and we were never
able to get a sufficient supply of recruits to repair the breach . That such should actually be the case , will , I doubt not , appear rather an extraordinary case to persons unacquainted with the state of society in the West Indies , but who have been told that
we resided on " an estate containing a population of four hundred souls . The fact is , the Negroes in Jamaica are a very unprolific race : not that they are naturally so , for they are evidently made barren by that brutal and demoralizing system of government tinder which they are doomed to pass
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492 Mr . £ fooper on the Disposition frf th& Negroes 49 embm&e Ghriftianity .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1822, page 492, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2515/page/36/
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