THE HISTORY OF MISSIONS;

Semeliler

OR, OF THE

PROPAGATION OF CHRISTIANITY

AMONG THE HEATHEN,

SINCE THE REFORMATION.

By The Rev. WILLIAM BROWN, M. D.

WITH

ADDITIONAL NOTES, AND A MAP OF THE WORLD.

ALSO,

A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST INTRODUCTION OF THE GOSPEL

INTO THE BRITISH ISLES.

BY ADAM CLARKE, LL. D. F. S. A. &c. &c.

» Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.”—Dan. xii. 4.
“And this Gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached in all the world, for &
witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come....Matt. xxiv. 14.

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION,

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

PHILADELPHIA:

PUBLISHED BY B. COLES, V. D. M.

1816.

L. S.

DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA, to wit:
Be it Remembered, That on the eighteenth day of September, in the

forty-first year of the Independence of the United States of Ame-
rica, A. 1). 1816, Benjamin Coles, of the said district, hath de-
posited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he

claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit: " The History of Missions, or of the Propagation of Christianity among the “ Heathen, since the Reformation. By the Rev. William Brown, M. D. with “ additional notes, and a map of the world. Also, a short account of the first “ introduction of the Gospel into the British Isles. By Adam Clarke, LL. D. "F. S. A. &c. &c... Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be in, "creased!'... Dan. xii. 4. And this Gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached " in all the world, for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end “come.'---Matt. xxiv. 14,"

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