Now our Church is in a flourishing state & by the blessing of God many are added to it now we are at peace with those several Sectaries that are round about us and I hope that by God's help peace will subsist amongst us --

To sow the seeds thereof shall be my endeavour to be of a loving charitable demeanor to all men of whatever persuasion in matters of Religion shall be (by G(jd's help) my practice that so discharging my duty herein I may contribute my mite to the good of the Ciiurch of Christ, this is the promise of him who begs leave to subscribe himself &,c ^c

. Thomas Colgan-

*THE SAME TO THE SAME.

Jamaica on L. I. 1735.

Revd Sir

According to my duty I take this opportunity for sending to the Venerable Society the follo\\ing accounts of afi'.iirs relating to my mission -- in my last I gave the information concerning the Clmrch that has been lately erected here, of the flourishing and peaceable condition it was then in, and in this happy state (by the Blessing of G<;(1) it is at this pjesent.

Those of tiie Independent persuasion who formerly through their ignorance or ui reasonable prejudice conceived it to be a

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crime to join witli the Church in Divine Worship do now very freel}^ k witli all tlie seeming sanctity k satisl'action that can be, come to our Church when there is no service in their meeting house. And several of tlie Quakers of Flusliiiig (which is a town inhabited chiefly toy those sort of people) do as often as it is my turn to officiate there attend upon Divine Service. This it is that opens a clear prospectus of the conversion of many Souls which God in his own time will make to the true Church of Christ since my removal into this parish I have baptized a considerable number of Children and several grown people but what may be thought wortliy of particular notice herein is the case of 2 persons a man and a Woman wlio were brought up in the principles k lived many years in the profession of Quakerism, the Man when upon his death bed sent for me, accordingly I visited him often and lie confessed before witnesses that he had been ignorant of the true soul saving knowledge of Christ.