The Ecclesiastical History of New England: Comprising Not Only Religious, But Also Moral, and Other Relations, Volume 2Congregational Library Association, 1862 - Congregational churches |
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Page 467 - What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus. 14 And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord be done.
Page 445 - Whereas, we all came into these parts of America, with one and the same end and aim, namely, to advance the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to enjoy the liberties of the Gospel in purity with peace...
Page 574 - So practice, in rendering again according to benefits received, is the proper evidence of true thankfulness. Psal. cxvi. 12, " What shall I render to the Lord for all his benefits towards me?
Page 169 - French tongue he could also manage ; the Latin and the Greek he had mastered ; but the Hebrew he most of all studied, because, he said, he would see with his own eyes the ancient oracles of God in their native beauty.
Page 128 - ... preservation; if any shall mutiny and rise up against their commanders and officers; if any should preach or write that there ought to be no commanders or officers, because all are equal in...
Page 185 - All the people of God within this jurisdiction who are not in a church way, and be orthodox in judgment, and not scandalous in life, shall have full liberty to gather themselves into a Church Estate. Provided they do it in a Christian way, with due observation of the rules of Christ revealed in his word.
Page 217 - The | Heart of New England | Rent at the | Blasphemies | of the present Generation. | Or a brief | Tractate, |Concerning the| Doctrine of the Quakers,| Demonstrating the destructive nature | thereof, to Religion, the Churches, and | the State; with consideration of the Re-|medy against it.
Page 635 - I think I can clearly say that before these present troubles broke out, the English did not possess one foot of land in this colony but what was fairly obtained by honest purchase of the Indian proprietors.
Page 97 - Let men of God in courts and churches watch O'er such as do a toleration hatch ; Lest that ill egg bring forth a cockatrice, To poison all with heresy and vice.
Page 189 - Hopkins, which is, to give some encouragement in those foreign plantations for the breeding up of hopeful youth, in a way of learning, both at the grammar school and college, for the public service of the country in future times.