Carey, William. An Enquiry into the Obligation of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens. In Which the Religious State of the Different Nations of the World, the Success of Former Undertakings, and the Practicability of Further Undertakings, are Considered.  Leicester: Printed and sold by Ann Ireland, and the other Booksellers in Leicester; J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church yard; T. Knott, Lombard Street; R. Dilly, in the Poultry, London; and Smith, at Sheffield, 1792.

For the Center's text of this rare pamphlet, see An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens.

--Bennie R. Crockett, Jr.

*Carey, William, D.D.  An Enquiry into the Obligation of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens; In which the religious State of the different Nations of the World, the Success of former Undertakings, and the Practicability of further Undertakings, are considered.  London: Published by Button and Son, Paternoster-Row; and Sold by T. Inkersley, Bradford; Robinson and Co. and G. Wilson, Leeds; Holden, Halifax; Coombe, Leicester; J. James, Bristol; and All Other Booksellers, 1818.

*_____________. An Enquiry into the Obligation of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens.  Reprinted in Facsimile from the Edition of MDCCXCII.  With an Introduction, Entitled “How William Carey Was Led to Write His Pamphlet” [signed: M. E. S.]. Second Issue. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1891. 

*_____________. Another edition. Reprinted in Facsimile from the Edition of MDCCXCII. With an Introduction Entitled “How William Carey Was Led to Write His Pamphlet” [signed: M. E. S.]. Second Issue. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1891. 

*_____________. Another edition. London: Baptist Missionary Society, 1934.

*_____________. Another edition. London: Baptist Missionary Society, 1942.

*_____________. New facsimile edition with an introduction by Ernest A. Payne. London: The Carey Kingsgate Press, Ltd., 1961.

Payne's introduction notes that the printers and publishers of the Enquiry in Leicester and London produced Thomas Paine’s Common Sense and were prosecuted for radical activities.

-Myron C. Noonkester

*_____________. Another Edition. Edited by John L. Pretlove. With an introduction by Keith E. Eitel. [Foreword by Paige Patterson]. Dallas, Texas: Criswell Publications, 1988. 

"In order to make Carey's Enquiry more useful to the modern reader, a few slight modifications have been made to the text.  Scripture references have been added where Carey did not provide them.  Many of Carey's commas have been omitted.  Some words which are not longer understood as they were two hundred years ago have been changed to their modern equivalent.  In a very few cases Carey's word order has been changed for the sake of clarity" (editor's note, p. vii).

--Bennie R. Crockett, Jr.

*_____________. Another edition. Preface by Brian Stanley and Introduction to the 1961 Edition by Ernest A. Payne.  Didcot: Baptist Missionary Society, 1991.

_____________.  Klaus Fiedler and Thomas Schirrmacher, eds.  Eine Untersuchung uber die Verpflichtung der Christen, Mittel einzusetzen fur die Bekehrung der Heiden. William Carey. Ubersetzt und herausgegeben von Klaus Fiedler und Thomas Schirrmacher. Bonn: Verlag fur Kultur und Wissenschaft, 1993.

[Advertisement for Enquiry] Leicester Herald. May 5 and 22, 1792.

_____________. A Message from God unto Thee. Serampore: Printed at the Mission Press, 1803.

_____________. Select Tracts, Earnestly Recommended to the Perusal of the Well-disposed Reader. Serampore: [Mission Press], 1803.

_____________. Bhāla samācāra : ananta trāṇera bishaẏa ; Mahammadera bibaraṇa. [Serampore?: Mission Press?], [1806-1808?].

Carey, William [and Felix Carey].  "An Account of the Funeral Ceremonies of a Burman Priest."  Asiatick Researches, 12 (1818):186-190.

*_____________.  "An Account of the Funeral Ceremonies of a Burman Priest."  The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature, For the Year 1817. 
London: Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, et al., 1818.  Pp. 582-585.  [electronic edition]

*Carey, William, Joshua Marshman and William Ward. Hints Relative to Native Schools, Together with the Outline of an Institution for their Extension and Management. Serampore: The Mission Press, 1816.

Carey, William. The First Report of the Institution for the Encouragement of Native Schools in India. Serampore: Mission Press, 1817.

*_____________. The Second Report of the Institution for the Support and Encouragement of Native Schools, Begun at Serampore, Nov. 1816: with a List of Subscribers and Benefactors. Serampore: Printed at the Mission Press, 1818. Bristol: Reprinted by J. G. Fuller, 1819.

*[Carey, William, Joshua Marshman, William Ward]. College for the Instruction of Asiatic Christian and Other Youth, in Eastern Literature and European Science.  Serampore, 1818.  [electronic edition]

*[Carey, William, Joshua Marshman, William Ward]. College for the Instruction of Asiatic Christian and Other Youth, in Eastern Literature and European Science, at Serampore, Bengal. London: Printed for Black, Kingsbury, Parbury, and Allen, Leadenhall Street, 1819.

Carey, William and Joshua Marshman. Statement Relative to the Administration of the Funds Entrusted to the Serampore Missionaries. Serampore: s. n., 1820.

*Carey, William, Joshua Marshman and William Ward. The Friend of India, Containing Information Relative to the State of Religion and Literature in India, with Occasional Intelligence from Europe and America for the Year 1819. [Monthly Series]. Volume[s] II, IV, V, VI, VIII. Serampore: Printed at the Mission Press, 1819, 1821, 1822, 1823, 1825. 

*_____________. The Friend of India (Quarterly Series). Volume I, No. 1. September, 1820; Vol. II, 1822; Volume IV, no. XII, May, 1825. Serampore: Printed at the Mission Press, 1820, 1822, 1825. 

*_____________. The Friend of India (Quarterly Series). No. XII.  May, 1825.  Serampore: Printed at the Mission Press, 1825 [electronic edition].

*_____________. The Friend of India (Quarterly Series). No. XIII.  October, 1825.  Serampore: Printed at the Mission Press, 1825 [electronic edition].

*_____________. The Friend of India (Quarterly Series). No. XIV.  March, 1826.  Serampore: Printed at the Mission Press, 1826 [electronic edition].

*_____________. The Friend of India (Quarterly Series). No. XV.  July, 1826.  Serampore: Printed at the Mission Press, 1826 [electronic edition].

*The Friend of India [Weekly Series], 14: nos. 679-729, January 6-December 21, 1848.

_____________. Thoughts upon the Discussions which have arisen from the Separation between the Baptist Missionary Society and the Serampore Missionaries. Liverpool: , 1830.

*Chatterjee, Sunil Kumar, compiler.  Family Letters of Dr. William Carey.  Serampore: Carey Library and Research Centre, 2002.

*"William Carey (1761-1834) Missionary Call."  Reprint ed., An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens.  Leicester: Ann Ireland, 1792.  Pp. 62-76.  In Jeffrey W. Barbeau, ed.  Religion in Romantic England: An Anthology of Primary Sources.  In Documents of Anglophone Christianity.  Gen. ed. Roger Lundin and Debora Shuger.  Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2018.  Pp. 436-442.

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