 | Adelaide Louise Rouse - United States - 1904 - 508 pages
...of, their Desires for the Furtherance of so noble a Work, which may, by the Providence of Almighty God, hereafter tend to the Glory of his Divine Majesty,...human Civility, and to a settled and quiet Government; DO, by these our Letters Patents, graciously accept of, and agree to, their humble and well-intended... | |
 | William T. Hagan - History - 1993 - 260 pages
...Company's charter that led to the founding of Jamestown included as one of its objectives, "propogating of Christian Religion to such people, as yet live...ignorance of the true knowledge and worship of God. "Down to the outbreak in 1622 this seems to have received more than just lip service. Company officials... | |
 | Robert Earl Hood - Religion - 220 pages
...civility and the Christian faith: [A plan of colonization] which may, by the Providence of Almighty God, hereafter tend to the Glory of His divine Majesty,...true knowledge and worship of God, and may in time 24. Act 4, sc. 3, line 254. 25. Quoted in Jordan, White over Black, 41. 26. Cited in George M. Fredrickson,... | |
 | Christian Liberty Press, Geoffrey Parsons - United States - 2007 - 196 pages
...accepting of their desires for the furtherance of so noble a work, which may by the providence of Almighty God hereafter tend to the glory of His Divine Majesty, in propagating of the Christian religion to such people, as yet live in darkness and miserable ignorance of the true... | |
 | William J. Federer, William Joseph Federer - Literary Collections - 1994 - 868 pages
...accepting of their Desires for the Furtherance of so noble a Work, which may, by the Providence of Almighty God, hereafter tend to the Glory of His Divine Majesty,...Parts, to human Civility, and to a settled and quiet Government....11 CoCony of Virginia May 14, 1607, was planted with settlers who had left England in... | |
 | John Martin Evans - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 220 pages
...Divine Majestic, in the propagating of Christian Religion to such people as yet live in darknesse, miserable ignorance of the true knowledge and worship...the Infidels and Savages (living in those parts) to humane civilitie and to a settled and quiet government," and in the charter of 1609 he again gave priority... | |
 | Barbara Arneil - Political Science - 1996 - 248 pages
...for colonizing America was religious. Thus Article 3 of the First Charter of Virginia calls for 'The propagating of Christian religion to such people as...miserable ignorance of the true knowledge and worship of God'.1 The first Governor of the Massachusetts Company states in a letter to Captain Endicott of Salem:... | |
 | V. Norskov Olsen - Religion - 1996 - 116 pages
...religious overtone. It expressed the desire and hope for a work which would "by the Providence of Almighty God, hereafter tend to the glory of his Divine Majesty, in propagating of Christian-Religion to such People, as yet living in Darkness and miserable Ignorance of the true Knowledge... | |
 | Wesley Frank Craven - Virginia - 1993 - 71 pages
...suggestion at the beginning of the first charter that the adventurers sought chiefly to propagate the "Christian Religion to such people, as yet live in...ignorance of the true knowledge and worship of God?" It is simple enough to point out diat the first adventurers in Jamestown showed very little of the... | |
 | Walter S. H. Lim - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 292 pages
...the Virginia colony. The Charter of the Virginia Company in 1609 expressly states as its purpose the "propagating of Christian religion to such people,...worship of God, and may in time bring the infidels and salvages living in these parts to humane civility and to a settled and quiet government."49 This does... | |
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WE, greatly commending, and graciously accepting of, their Desires for the Furtherance of so noble a Work, which may, by the Providence of Almighty God, hereafter tend to the Glory of his Divine Majesty, in propagating of Christian Religion to such People,... 
