AN APPENDIX. 41 charity-schools by such a perpetual series of testimonies, as it were, from heaven promoting this building and supplying their wants, but the success of this work in the conversion of a mul- titude of souls here, and in spreading Vital religion through many adjacent countries gives a further demonstration how pleas- ing it has been to God. Out of these schools under the pare of this great and pious man hath proceeded a great number of.pious and learned tutors for gentlemen's children, school-masters and divines who have done much towards the spreading a neww and lively savour of christianity through many of the provinces of Germany ; and besides this, they have educated multitudes of honest and pious christianswho were taken in here as orphans, and who havebeen placed out to various trades, artifices and labours in life, where- by there is a considerable reformation in those parts of the world and a glorious change from a cold formal lifeless profession of religion to the practice of solid piety and goodness. The latereverend and pious doctor Josiah Woodward, the present right reverend doctor Kennet bishopof Peterborough, and other divines of the church of England have given their public enconiums of this strange and surprising work of liber- ality several years ago. It was a most heavy and painful stroke which this glorious scene of piety and charity sustained last year by the death of the most excellent founder professor Frank, but the work is still carried on by his worthy successors, and may the same happy success still attend it through a rich supply of the Spirit of Christ among them. The larger account of these things is contained in several narratives written by professor Frank himself, and by the late pious Mr. William Anthony Boehm, chaplain to the late prince George of Denmark, these are all put together and prefaced by doctor Woodward; printed by Mr., Downing in Bartholomew- Close : And are well worth the perusal of the present age, to let them see there is a divine providence in the world, and a di vice approbation of sincero works of charity,
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