THE DAYS OF MAKEMIE; OR, THE VINE PLANTED. A. D. 1680-1708. WITH AN APPENDIX. BY THE REV. L. P. BOWEN, D. D. "For my own part, I have ever observed in all the Writings of men Ignorance, PHILADELPHIA: PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF PUBLICATION, COPYRIGHT, 1885, BY THE TRUSTEES OF THE PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF PUBLICATION. All Rights Reserved. WESTCOTT & THOMSON, 976.5 3675 PREFACE. THE name has lived, but has Francis Makemie been much more than a myth in the dim twilight of the past? With sure instinct the Church has always felt that a debt of gratitude was owed by her to the Apostle of the Chesapeake, but how little she has known about him! Dr. Miller's Memoir of John Rodgers, published in 1813, attracted some attention to our pioneer. He is spoken of as coming to America about the year 1700. The conflict between the Old and the New School parties, and the attempt to trace back their distinctive. principles to the origin of the American Presbyterian Church and place them upon a historical basis, aroused a new interest in the founder of the Peninsula churches. Irving Spence, in his Letters on the Early History of the Presbyterian Church, published in 1838, embodying the results of his own investigations among the traditions and court records of the lower Eastern Shore of Maryland, gave new impulse to inquiry and did more than any one before to clear away the thick mists. Dr. Hill and Dr. Hodge in their controversies 433327 3 APR 6 '29 |