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%n account of tfre atitfror
charge in my youth, as that opened me a way
into the Christian priesthood in the most excellent of all churches." This transparently sincere
declaration in near view of the end of life, reinforced as it was by thirty-six blameless years
spent in Narragansett, sufficiently disposes, also,
ofthe vague suspicions awakened at Bristol. The
foundation of S. Michael's Church in that town,
in 1719, primarily due, as it is believed to have
been, to the presence of early settlers already
strongly attached to the Church of England, was,
perhaps, expedited by the disaffection to the Puritan organization of a considerable number of Mr.
MacSparran's friends, in view of what they considered his unwarrantable treatment. Whether
the young Presbyterian licentiate accomplished
this transformation of his ecclesiastical convictions during the long voyage to the Old World,
in the Autumn of 1719, or after his arrival on
its shores, there is now no means of determining. What is a matter of record is that he was
ordained to the diaconate in the Church of England, by the Bishop of London, August 21,1720,
and to the priesthood, by the Archbishop of
Canterbury, on the 25th day of the succeeding
September, being licensed, by the former, on
October 3rd of the same year, to discharge his
ministerial office in the Province of New England.
It was not, however, until the following spring
that Mr. MacSparran sailed upon his return to
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| Title | A letter book and abstract of out services written during the years 1743-1751 |
| Creator | MacSparran, James |
| Publisher | D.B. Updike, Merrymount Press |
| Place of Publication | Boston |
| Date | 1899 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000033 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | %n account of tfre atitfror charge in my youth, as that opened me a way into the Christian priesthood in the most excellent of all churches." This transparently sincere declaration in near view of the end of life, reinforced as it was by thirty-six blameless years spent in Narragansett, sufficiently disposes, also, ofthe vague suspicions awakened at Bristol. The foundation of S. Michael's Church in that town, in 1719, primarily due, as it is believed to have been, to the presence of early settlers already strongly attached to the Church of England, was, perhaps, expedited by the disaffection to the Puritan organization of a considerable number of Mr. MacSparran's friends, in view of what they considered his unwarrantable treatment. Whether the young Presbyterian licentiate accomplished this transformation of his ecclesiastical convictions during the long voyage to the Old World, in the Autumn of 1719, or after his arrival on its shores, there is now no means of determining. What is a matter of record is that he was ordained to the diaconate in the Church of England, by the Bishop of London, August 21,1720, and to the priesthood, by the Archbishop of Canterbury, on the 25th day of the succeeding September, being licensed, by the former, on October 3rd of the same year, to discharge his ministerial office in the Province of New England. It was not, however, until the following spring that Mr. MacSparran sailed upon his return to [ xxii ] |
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