The Persecuting GovernorDaniel Parish Kidder |
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Page 32 - Here I found a clergyman, Dr. Coke, late a gentleman commoner of Jesus College in Oxford, who came twenty miles on purpose to meet me. I had much conversation with him ; and an union then began, which I trust shall never end.
Page 58 - Fischal, which was, that they required us to promise, that we would not, publicly or privately, by day or by night, preach either to whites or to blacks during . our stay in that island, under the penalty, on default, of prosecution, arbitrary punishment, (that was the very expression,) and banishment from the Island. We withdrew to consult...
Page 49 - That if any white person should be found praying with his brethren — for the first offence he should be fined fifty pieces of eight ; for the second, one hundred pieces ; and for the third he should be whipped, his goods be confiscated, and he should then be banished the island.
Page 16 - To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
Page 50 - That if a coloured man should be found praying — for the first offence he should receive thirty-nine lashes ; and for the second, if free, he should be whipped and banished ; but if a slave, be whipped every "time.
Page 34 - To this ascendency in the affections of the people, the harmony of his voice, the engaging smile which his countenance displayed, and the clerical character which he sustained, no doubt, in part, contributed. But these inferior circumstances must be allowed to dwindle into their own insignificance, when compared with that peculiar unction with which God was pleased to attend his word."*
Page 33 - Square now stands, was at that time laid out in fields. In these he frequently collected large assemblies, and much good was there done through his instrumentality. " Nor was this popularity of a transient nature. His earnestness, his activity, his piety, his zeal for God; and, above all, his unconquerable desire to do good, which was always evinced by his warm addresses to the hearts of his hearers...
Page 44 - ... hours. This circumstance created an alarm among the planters; and the propriety of his preaching was viewed in a very questionable light. It happened one night, not long before Dr. Coke's arrival, that during Harry's preaching, no less than sixteen were affected in this extraordinary manner. This gave the finishing blow to his ministry. He was ordered to appear immediately before the governor, and was forbidden by him to preach any more, under very severe penalties."* It was a remarkable coincidence,...
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