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A 3 page essay that summarizes William Carey's 1792 pamphlet "An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians To Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens," which is credited for prompting the Protestant missions that characterized the nineteenth century. No additional sources cited.
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Winter and Steven C. Hawthorne in their preface to William Careys 1792 pamphlet "An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians To Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens" indicate
that the prevalent attitude in Careys era was that the Great Commission no longer applied to Christians. Careys pamphlet counters this attitude, as he argues that Christians should continue to
heed the call of the Great Commission. He begins his essay by simply stating the fact that the Great Commission exists, as the Lord called upon Christians to "use every
lawful method to spread the knowledge of his name" (Carey 313). Carey proceeds to show the inconsistencies in the arguments of those who state that the Great Commission only
applied to the apostles. "If the command of Christ to teach all nations be restricted to the apostles, or those under the immediate inspiration of the Holy Ghost, then," Carey
argues, his contemporaries err in baptizing with water; ministers who tried to carry the Gospel to the heathens have "acted without a warrant" and the divine promise made by Christ
that he would be with believers to "the end of the world" would also be in error (Carey 314). To those who
say that there are people in "our own nation" who are as ignorant of the Gospel as "South Sea savages," Carey grants the validity of this argument, but also
argue that the need for evangelism at home does not supersede the need to spread the Gospel to foreign lands. "Our own countrymen have the means of grade, and may
attend on the word preached if they choose it," argues Carey, while those living in foreign lands have no access to the truth of the Gospel until "faithful minister are
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