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. Iremember to have read of a king of France, forbidding a neighbouring state to build a single Galley as his fleet was sufficient to scour their seas, and I am certain the Conduct of the Dissenters greatly resembles that of the Monarch, but that their power is as yet less than his. For those of Consequence amst them, tho' many of them are Libertines in their sentiments, yet all of them are strongly interested in whatever regards their profession, and in this Country they foresee that if the Established Church is encouraged, its Comeliness may witht much Efforts of our Missionaries draw many of their people to it as well as regain sev! of its old Members who for want of any other places of Worship in some parts have become Dissenters, But as Pride & policy forbid their discovering the True Causes, they affect apprehensions that our Church may pursue unwarrantable measures to acquire a Dominion over their tender Consciences and In America presume even to take offence at any additional Establishments in our fav'.