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... Assembly - Mr . Clarke - difficulties about boundaries - charges against Rhode- Island , concerning Catholics and Quakers , CHAPTER XXIV . 300 315 Mr. Williams ' public services - religious habits - efforts as a minister - Indians ...
... Assembly - Mr . Clarke - difficulties about boundaries - charges against Rhode- Island , concerning Catholics and Quakers , CHAPTER XXIV . 300 315 Mr. Williams ' public services - religious habits - efforts as a minister - Indians ...
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... assemblies . We have no record of his real sentiments on this frivolous subject . Dr. Bentley asserts , that Mr. Endicott had introduced it before Mr. Williams arrived , and that the latter adopted the notion , rather to gratify Mr ...
... assemblies . We have no record of his real sentiments on this frivolous subject . Dr. Bentley asserts , that Mr. Endicott had introduced it before Mr. Williams arrived , and that the latter adopted the notion , rather to gratify Mr ...
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... assemblies of Greece . The physical characteristics of the Indians were common to all the tribes , -a bronze or copper color ; straight , coarse , black hair , hazel eyes , high cheek bones , and an erect form . ‡ They possessed firm ...
... assemblies of Greece . The physical characteristics of the Indians were common to all the tribes , -a bronze or copper color ; straight , coarse , black hair , hazel eyes , high cheek bones , and an erect form . ‡ They possessed firm ...
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... assemblies , and set up a meeting in her own house . She accused the greater part of the ministers in the country as ... assembly , ( as was then in practice in Boston ) where sixty or more did meet every week , and one woman ( in a ...
... assemblies , and set up a meeting in her own house . She accused the greater part of the ministers in the country as ... assembly , ( as was then in practice in Boston ) where sixty or more did meet every week , and one woman ( in a ...
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... assemblies , the presence of Him , who is nigh to all who fear Him , and who prefers " above all temples , the ... assembly for worship ; until the number should have so increased , as to enable them to form separate churches , and ...
... assemblies , the presence of Him , who is nigh to all who fear Him , and who prefers " above all temples , the ... assembly for worship ; until the number should have so increased , as to enable them to form separate churches , and ...
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Page 359 - Who is that mysterious Word, that was " in the beginning, with God ? " Who is the " Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, the first and the last...
Page 304 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our Fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Page 424 - ... to the knowledge and obedience of the only true God and Saviour of mankind, and the Christian faith, which in our royal intention, and the adventurers' free profession, is the principal end of this plantation.
Page 318 - That our royal will and pleasure is, that no person within the said colony, at any time hereafter, shall be any wise molested, punished, disquieted, or called in question, for any differences in opinion in matters of religion...
Page 40 - ... we desire you would be pleased to take notice of the principals and body of our company, as those who esteem it our honor to call the Church of England, from whence we rise, our dear mother ; and cannot part from our native country, where she specially resideth, without much sadness of heart and many tears in our eyes...
Page 143 - We whose names are underwritten do here solemnly in the presence of Jehovah, incorporate ourselves into a Bodie Politick, and as he shall help, will .submit our persons, lives and estates unto our Lord Jesus Christ, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and to all those perfect and most absolute laws of his given us in his holy word of truth, to be guided and judged thereby.
Page 118 - It pleased the Father of spirits to touch many hearts, dear to him, with some relentings; amongst which, that great and pious soul, Mr. Winslow, melted, and kindly visited me, at Providence, and put a piece of gold into the hands of my wife, for our supply.
Page 304 - O'er all the Italian fields, where still doth sway The triple Tyrant ; that from these may grow A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe.
Page 393 - Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil doers, and for the praise of them that do well.
Page 264 - The Secretary of the Council, (Mr. Milton) for my Dutch I read him, read me many more languages.