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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 Excerpt: ...North and South Holland, wherein they desire of the synod an account of the high and low Dutch churches in this Province, and also of the churches belonging to the presbyterian synod of Philadelphia; and whether the Dutch churches may be joined in communion with said synod, or if this may not be, that they would form themselves into a regular body and government among themselves. In pursuance of which letter, the synod agreed that letters be written in the name of the synod to the deputies of those synods in Latin, and to the Scotch ministers in Rotterdam, giving them an account of the churches here, and declaring our willingness to join with the Calvinistic Dutch churches here, to assist each other as far as possible in promoting the common interests of religion, and signifying the present great want of ministers among the high and low Dutch, with the desire that they may help in educating men for the ministry. And the synod ordered that Messrs. Andrews, Cross, Evans, and the moderator, (McHenry, ) write the said letters. 3 That there were already congregations formed and furnished with ministers in the frontier settlements in Virginia, appears from the following minute made in 1747. Upon considering the distance of the brethren in the back parts of Virginia, we think it necessary that we should know the i Minutes, p. 85. 'Ibid. voL UL p. 4. Ibid. p. 5. state of the churches which are under our care, though at a distance from us; and, therefore, it is ordered that at least one of those brethren shall every year attend us, that we may have the pleasure of knowing the state of Christ's kingdom among them, and that we may keep synodical communion in reality, and not in name only. And ordered that Messrs. McHenry and Sanchey write them a letter, acqu...

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