New Englands First Fruits
After God had carried us safe to New England and wee had builded our houses provided necessaries for our liveli hood reard convenient places for Gods worships and settled the civill government one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity dreading to leave an illiterate ministery to the churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
New Englands First Fruits