Memoir of Rev. Patrick Copland

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Excerpt from Memoir of Rev. Patrick Copland: Rector Elect of the First Projected College in the United States, A Chapter of the English Colonization of America Living, as Copland did, in a period of political and ecclesiastical convulsion, indulging neither in political acerbity, nor the "odium theologicum, " yet not afraid to differ from popular modes of thought and worship, to correspond with Hugh Peters, once the fiery preacher at Salem, Massachusetts, and, at the same time, to call Nicholas Ferrar, the gentle ritualistic recluse of Little Gidding, his friend, it is not strange that his name was not written in large letters by the trimming historians of the era of the vacillating Charles and determined Cromwell, who seemed to think it a work of merit, to hurl words, like barbed arrows, against all who differed from them an iota. The establishment of Christianity in America, in Copland's day, largely occupied the attention of the Church. Sir William Alexander, Secretary of State for Scotland, and proprietor of Nova Scotia, as early as 1614, wrote, in one of his poems - "In this last age, Time doth new worlds display, That Christ a Church o'er all the earth may have, His righteousness shall barbarous realms away, If their first love more civil lands will leave: America to Europe may succeed, God may stones raise up to Abram's seed." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.