_Convocation and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts._--
"When the committee I have mentioned was appointed, March 13, 1700, to
consider what might be done towards _propagating the Christian Religion
as professed in the Church of England in our Foreign Plantations_; and
the committee, composed of very venerable and experienced men, well
suited for such an inquiry, had sat several times at St. Paul's, and
made some progress in the business referred to them, a charter was
presently procured to place the consideration of that matter in other
hands, where it now remains, and will, we hope, produce excellent
fruits. But whatever they are, they must be acknowledged to have sprung
from the overtures to that purpose first made by the lower house of
Convocation."--_Some Proceedings in the Convocation of 1705 faithfully
represented_, p. 10. of Preface.