 And whereas nothing can tend more to bring true devotion, and the practice of religion, into disrepute, than the pretended preaching, teaching, and expounding the word of God as contained in the Holy Scriptures, by uneducated, illiterate, and ignorant...  A History of the West Indies: Containing the Natural, Civil, and ... - Page 15by Thomas Coke - 1810Full view - About this book
 | Anita M. Waters - History - 1985 - 358 pages
...discouraged and finally prohibited in some British territories. A law passed in Jamaica in 1807 forbade "the practice of such pretended preaching, teaching and expounding the Holy Scriptures" to "persons of colour, and negroes of free condition, and slaves" (Augier and Gordon 1962, 95-96).... | |
 | Pedrito U. Maynard-Reid - Religion - 2000 - 266 pages
...bodies political, to uphold and encourage the due, proper and solemn exercise of religion and worshiping of God. And whereas nothing can tend more to bring...such pretended preaching, teaching and expounding of Holy Scriptures, by such descriptions of persons as aforesaid to large numbers of persons of colour,... | |
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