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Page 195 - A MAN of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds...
Page 29 - For their learning be liberal. Spare no cost; for by such parsimony all is lost that is saved: but let it be useful knowledge, such as is consistent with truth and godliness...
Page 4 - At another time, as I was walking in a field on a first-day morning, the Lord opened unto me, " that being bred at Oxford or Cambridge was not enough to fit and qualify men to be ministers of Christ;" and I wondered at it, because it was the common belief of people.
Page 49 - II. by his letters patent under the great seal of England, bearing date the fourth day of March, in the three and thirtieth year of his reign, for the...
Page 48 - ... of the overseers thereof for the time being, be received or admitted, taught and instructed; the rich at reasonable rates, and the poor to be maintained and schooled for nothing.
Page 43 - ... in England, to whom having communicated their minds, he embraced it upon the following terms : to learn to read English...
Page 12 - I know that Abraham will command his children and his household after him ; and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment, that the Lord may bring upon Abraham the things that he hath spoken of him.
Page 238 - ... encouragement to those poor ignorant people to perpetuate their savage wars in order to supply the demands of this most unnatural traffic, whereby great numbers of mankind, free by nature, are subjected to inextricable bondage, and which hath often been observed to fill their possessors with haughtiness, tyranny, luxury, and barbarity, corrupting the minds and debasing the morals of their children, to the unspeakable prejudice of religion and virtue, and to the exclusion of that holy spirit of...
Page 234 - In infinite love and goodness he hath opened our understanding from one time to another concerning our duty towards this people, and it is not a ' time for delay. Should we now be sensible of what he requires of us, and through a respect to the private...
Page 233 - And also you must instruct and teach your Indians and Negroes, and all others, that Christ, by the grace of God, tasted death for every man...