 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1810 - 874 pages
...in England, out of towns ; every man, according to his ability, instructing his children. We have 48 parishes ; and our ministers are well paid, and by my consent should be better, if they would Jtray oftcner and Jireach less. But, of all other commodities, so of tliis, the worst are tent ut ;... | |
 | Virginia, William Waller Hening - Law - 1810 - 616 pages
...the paying *""'«>• of your ministry ? Answer. I he same course that is taken in England Parishes, out of towns; every man according to his ability instructing his children. We have fforty eight parish- Minister* es, and our ministers are well pa.id, and by my consent b',""(.cr p!yT? should be... | |
 | Abiel Holmes - America - 1829 - 616 pages
...in England : Out of towns every man instructs his own children, according to his ability. We have 48 parishes, and our ministers are well paid, and by my consent should be better, if they would pray offener, and preach less : But, as of all other commodities, so of this, the worst are sent us, and... | |
 | Edmund Ruffin - Agriculture - 1839 - 830 pages
...provision is there made for the paying of your ministry ? Answer. The same course that is taken ¡n England out of towns ; every man according to his ability instructing his children. We have fibrty-eighl parishes, and our ministers are well paid, and by my consent should be better, if they... | |
 | 1847 - 814 pages
...quit-rents. Every man instructed his children himself according to his ability. There were forty-eight parishes and " our ministers are well paid and by my consent should he better, if they would pray oftener and preach less. But as of all other commodi332 History of ihe... | |
 | James Stuart Murray Anderson - Blacks - 1848 - 796 pages
...religion ; and what provision is there made for the paying of your ministry?' To which, he replies: ' The same course that is taken in England out of towns...according to his ability instructing his children. We have fforty-eight parishes, and our ministers are well paid, and by my consent would be better if they would... | |
 | Literature - 1856 - 604 pages
...Out of towns every man instructs his own children according to his own ahilitr. We hare fortv-eight parishes, and our ministers are well paid, and by my consent should be better, if they would pray the Government in England, through the agency of the Rev. James Blair, and the assistance of Nicholson,... | |
 | William Henry Foote - Virginia - 1850 - 584 pages
...instructing the people within your government in the Christian religion?" says — " We have forty-eight parishes, and our ministers are well paid, and by my consent should be better, */ they would pray oftener and preach less. But of all other commodities, so of this, the worst are... | |
 | Timothy Shay Arthur, William Henry Carpenter - Virginia - 1853 - 354 pages
...parishes," adds Berkeley, from whose letter to the privy council in England this account is taken, " and our ministers are well paid, and by my consent should be better, if they wrould pray oftener, and preach less." A little farther on, he thanks God there are neither schools... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - Virginia - 1856 - 482 pages
...for one * Virginia's Cure, 4. Campbell, 79. Sir William Berkeley, writing in 1670 or 1671, said : " Our ministers are well paid, and by my consent should be better, if they would pray oftencr and preach less. But as of all other commodities, so of this, the worst are sent to us." (... | |
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The same course that is taken in England out of towns; every man according to his ability instructing his children. 
