 ... hath increased to an alarming degree ; and during such pretended preaching, teaching, and expounding, and pretended worshipping of God, divers indecent and unseemly noises, gesticulations, and behaviour, often are used and take place, to the great...  A History of the West Indies: Containing the Natural, Civil, and ... - Page 16by Thomas Coke - 1810Full view - About this book
 | Missions - 1807 - 672 pages
...of God, divers indecent and 'unseemly noises, gesticulations, and behaviuur, often ar« u«eii tied take place, to the great annoyance of the neighbours,...and to the disrepute of religion itself; and also to th« great detriment of slaves, who ara induced, by divert artifices and pre. tences of the »aid pretended... | |
 | Claudius Buchanan - Church and state - 1813 - 230 pages
...pretended worshipping of God, " divers indecent and unseemly noises, GESTICU" LATIONS, and behaviour, often are used and " take place, to the great annoyance of the neigh" hours," &c. It was therefore enacted, That if any person, under pretence of being a minister... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1816 - 608 pages
...and pretended worshipping of God, divers indecent and unseemly noises, gesticulations, and behaviour, often are used and take place, to the great annoyance...of the said pretended preachers, to attend the said irregidar assemblies, whereby such slaves are continually kept and detained from their owners' necessary... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1816 - 614 pages
...and pretended worshipping of God, divers indecent and unseemly noises, gesticulations, and behaviour, often are used and take place, to the great annoyance...the disrepute of religion itself, and also to the greit detriment of slaves, who are induced, by direr* artifices and pretences of the said pretended... | |
 | Joseph Marryat - Africa - 1816 - 286 pages
...during such pretended preaching, divers indecent and unseemly noises, gesticulations, and behaviour, often are used and take place, to the great annoyance...and to the disrepute of religion itself, and also to flie great detriment of slaves, who are induced by divers artifices and pretences of the said pretended... | |
 | Colonist, Colonist (Writer on colonial West Indies politics) - Abolitionists - 1816 - 390 pages
...enacted? Because, at such meetings, M divers indecent and unseemly noises, gesticulations, and behaviour, often are used and take place, to the great annoyance of the neighbours," and, " in some cases, the minds of slaves have been so operated upon and affected by the fanaticism of the... | |
 | Thomas Southey - West Indies - 1827 - 634 pages
...and pretended worshipping of God, divers indecent and unseemly noises, gesticulations, and behaviour often are used and take place, to the great annoyance...the disrepute of religion itself, and also to the detriment of slaves, who are induced, by divers artifices and pretences of the said pretended preachers,... | |
 | Peter Duncan - Blacks - 1849 - 446 pages
...and pretended worshipping of God, divers indecent and unseemly noises, gesticulations, and behaviour, often are used and take place, to the great annoyance...pretences of the said pretended preachers to attend their said irregular assemblies, whereby such slaves are continually kept and detained from their owners... | |
 | Pedrito U. Maynard-Reid - Religion - 2000 - 266 pages
...and pretended worshipping of God, divers indecent and unseemly noises, gesticulations and behaviour often are used and take place to the great annoyance of the neighbours and to the disrepute of the religion itself. No person not duly authorized [shall] . . . under the pretence of being a teacher,... | |
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