And abundance of pains is taken to make the ignorant think as bad as possible of her. And I really believe that more than half the people in that government, think our Church to be little better than the Papist. And they fail not to improve every little thing against us: but T bless God for it, the Society have robbed them of their best argument, which was the ill lives of our clergy that came into these parts. And the truth is, I have not seen many good men but of the Society's sending.

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And no sooner was that honorable body settled, and those prudent measures taken for carrying on of that great work, but the people of Connecticut, doubting of nriaintaining their ground without some further support, they with great industry went through their colony for subscriptions to build a college at a place called Seabrook. And the ministers who are as absolute in their respective pari&hes, as the Pope of Rome, argued, prayed, and preached up the necessity of it ; and the passive obedience people who dare not do otherwise than obey, gave even beyond their ability. A thing which they call a college was prepared accordingly, wherein, as I am informed, a commencement was made about three or four months ago. But notvvitbstanding their new college here, and old one in Boston, and that every town in that colony has one, and some two ministers, and have not only heard them say, but seen it in their prints, tliat there was no place in the world where the gospel shone so brightly, nor that the people lived so religiously and well as they : yet I dare aver, that there is not a much greater necessity of having the christian religion in its true light preached any where than amongst them.