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 LETTER. II.

Now ſet my ſelf down, according to my Promiſe, and your Permiſſion, to do that by the Hand of a Friend, which I was not able to do with my own, and which I had not Time to touch upon in my laſt Letter; I mean, to give ſome Account of the State of Religion Abroad, according to the Account I have got from Count Zinzindorff in a Letter, which I received from him about the Middle of December laſt.You may remember, that I told you formerly, that this holy Man had laid aſide his ſecular Employments and Dignities, and devoted himſelf to the Paſtoral Care of a Church, conſiſting chiefly of a conſiderable Number of pious Moravians, who had fled from their native Country on Account of Perſecution, and by his Encouragement fixed themſelves at Hermith. It is ſomething more than a Twelve Month, perhaps, near two Years ſince, by the Severity of the King of Poland, under the Inſtigation of the Jeſuits, they were driven from thence, and the Count obliged to part with his Etate there. But, God has been pleaſſed, as in many former Inſtances, to over-rule this Perecution for the Good of his Church. For whereas, before they had ſent out their Miſſionaries into ſeveral Parts of the World; and whereas I think (I told you) ſome or other of them continually Night and Day prayed for their Succeſs and the Propagation of the Goſpel in the World; ſo they looked upon this Providence as a Call to abound more and more in this good Work. They have indeed fixed their Head-quarters at a Place called Hernaag, near Frankfort on the