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NYEP(D.750.040
31 Dec 1750:31 (293)
Philadelphia, December 20. The following is taken from a
Dutch news-paper printed at Germantown.
According to the last advices from Europe, many of the
adherents of count Zintzendorf will soon come over to
Pensylvania, because they are not tolerated in many places
in Germany. There are several edicts published against
them, as one at Basil, in Switzerland, . . . [4 lines] The
following is a copy of the declaration from the King of
England, as Elector of Hanover.
We George the Second, by the Grace of God, King of Great
Britain, France and Ireland, &c. Whereas it has been
brought before us, that the sect of those who call
themselves Moravian brethren, and of the so called
Hernhuters, or of them who are addicted to the principles of
Count Zintzendorf, begins to creep in; we therefore order
that all Hernhuters books which are already known, as their
hymn book and the sermons of the Count Zintzendorf, and all
other that for the future may be printed shall not be
tolerated in our dominions.
Therefore all those who are suspected to be addicted to
the so called Hernhutters, or to those who call themselves
Moravian brethren, are to deliver up all such books that are
in their hands to the magistrates of each place, who shall
sent them to our consistory; for the same end we will cause
a special mandate to be sent to all booksellers in our
dominions here.
And though the ordinance from 1734, did not prohibit any
to have for himself or with his family, or with one or more
friends coming to him, his private devotions in his own
house, yet the meaning thereof is not to be extended, so as
to give them permission to have meetings with such people as
are adhering to the Hernhutters, or as they call themselves,
Moravian Bretheren. . .
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