A HISTORY OF THE WEST INDIES, CONTAINING THE NATURAL, CIVIL, AND ECCLESIASTICAL History of each Island: WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE MISSIONS INSTITUTED IN THOSE ISLANDS, FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF BUT MORE ESPECIALLY OF THE MISSIONS WHICH HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHED IN THAT ARCHIPELAGO By the Society Late in Connexion with the Rev. John Wesley. BY THOMAS COKE, LL.D. OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. Liverpool: PRINTED BY NUTTALL, FISHER, AND DIXON, DUKE-STREET. 400 Ir 48 1808. 226. i. 81. DEDICATION. TO THE Subscribers towards the West India Missions. RESPECTED FRIENDS, I dedicate to you these Volumes from the joint influence of gratitude and duty, and as a tribute of acknowledgment for that benevolence which has marked your conduct towards the interests of Jesus Christ. As a minister of that gospel which is able to make us wise unto salvation, I feel the weight of those favors which have resulted from your kindness; and I also indulge my feelings, while I acknowledge my inability to cancel the obligations which you have conferred. In dedicating this Work to you, I do not pretend, either to bestow a favor, or to discharge a debt. I have acknowledged the obligations I feel myself under, as an instrument through which you have transmitted your bounty; and my inability to remove the pleasing burden, gives you a right, when you behold this Publication, to expect a Dedication from me. I |