I am, with true esteem Gentlemen &c Mess's Cooper & Ogilvie.

P. S. The great regard which I shall always pay to your Judgment & recommendation obliges me to observe that I drew my observations from what passed with respect to the Schenectady Mission, In which I may have been mistaken, for I have no objection to M* Griffiths Character or abilities, neither can I have any whensupported by authority that have somuch weight with me.

SIR WM. JOHNSON TO REVD CHS INGLIS.

Johnson hall March 27% 1771. Good Sir, » -

Ihave had the favor of yours of the 8th Inst, and I thank you aswell for the particulars:you Communicated to me, as for the kind manner in which your friendship has Induced you to speak of myself on the Subject I have so much at heart.

Tam persuaded from Dt Burtons Letter that the Society would willingly do all in their power, for carrying so important a plan into Execution, and Esteem it an honor to receive so many assurances of their favorable opinion of my little endeavors: But I have great Reason to apprehend that the Generality of the men of Rank are but Cool in matters of Religion, otherwise, I

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should think that a plan of that sort would come with great Weight & strict propriety from His Grace of Canterbury, or the Bishop of London, in their Ecelesiastick Capacity, and I am really concerned at reading that part where you say That similar applications from the Society first, have been frequently postponed and neglected because it is a proof that my apprehensions are but too well founded otherwise I cannot see why a Religious Society in which are Some of the Greatest Men in England should not meet With all Imaginable Countenance on any Religious Subject, where the Object appeared so meritorious, whilst every species of Dissenters finds favor, and Support on the application of the meanest Engines that can be found out--This extraordinary Inkewarmness in matters of this nature, may I believe in' some measure be attributed to the peculiar cast of Modern politicks, It being first forged by the Dissenters & echoed by every - Scribler, as now to be too generally believed, That the Missionaries busy themselves mostly in Converting worthy & pious Dissenters, and that these pious people will be alarmed.