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Inasmuch 



First Bible 

 Published in 

 America, 1664 



1660 



1662 



Movement in 

 the National 

 Church 



not be prosecuted with that expedition and fur 

 ther success as was desired, unless fit instruments 

 were encouraged and maintained to pursue it,&quot; 

 and established &quot;a Corporation for the Promoting 

 and Propagation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ 

 in New England.&quot; This corporation provided 



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and bore the chief expense connected with the 

 publication of his translation of the Bible into 

 Mohican. Richard Baxter said of a copy of the 

 latter sent to Charles II. : &quot;Such a work and fruit 

 of a plantation was never before presented unto a 

 King.&quot; &quot;Of this Bible Cotton Mather wrote: 

 Behold Ye Americans, the greatest honour that 

 ever ye were partakers of, the Bible printed here 

 at our Cambridge; and it is the only Bible that 

 ever was printed in all America, from the founda 

 tion of the world.&quot; &quot;The longest word in it is in 

 Mark I, 40. Wutappesittukqussunnookweh- 

 tunkquoh (kneeling down to him).&quot; On the 

 restoration of the Monarchy the Corporation 

 became defunct, but was revived by a charter of 

 Charles II. , under the title of &quot;The Company for 

 the Propagation of the Gospel in New England 

 and the parts adjacent in America.&quot; and limited 

 to forty-five members, consisting of Churchmen 

 and Dissenters. It is now known as the New 

 England Company. 



About twelve years later the state of irreligion 

 in England stirred certain members of the 

 National Church to band themselves together 

 into Societies &quot;that so by their united zeal and 



