A History of Virginia from Its Discovery Till the Year 1781: With Biographical Sketches of All the Most Distinguished Characters that Occur in the Colonial, Revolutionary, Or Subsequent Period of Our History |
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... preach less ; but as of all other com- modities so of this , the worst are sent us , and we have few that we can boast of since the per secution in Cromwell's tyranny drove divers worthy men hither . Yet I thank God there are no free ...
... preach less ; but as of all other com- modities so of this , the worst are sent us , and we have few that we can boast of since the per secution in Cromwell's tyranny drove divers worthy men hither . Yet I thank God there are no free ...
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... preach the gospel of sal vation . Perceiving that the want of schools and semi- naries for literary and religious instruction would in a great degree defeat the exertions which were making in order to propagate the gospel , he formed ...
... preach the gospel of sal vation . Perceiving that the want of schools and semi- naries for literary and religious instruction would in a great degree defeat the exertions which were making in order to propagate the gospel , he formed ...
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... discourses , " 4 vols . 8vo . London 1742. This work is spoken of with high approbation by Dr. Doddridge , and by Dr. Williams in his Christian Preacher . American Biography . No. XIII . JOHN BLAIR , one of the associate 262.
... discourses , " 4 vols . 8vo . London 1742. This work is spoken of with high approbation by Dr. Doddridge , and by Dr. Williams in his Christian Preacher . American Biography . No. XIII . JOHN BLAIR , one of the associate 262.
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... preached at Williamsburg at the invitation of Mr. Blair , our late commissary . But we being sixty miles distant from Williamsburg , he left the colony before we had an opportunity of hearing him . But in the year 1743 , a young ...
... preached at Williamsburg at the invitation of Mr. Blair , our late commissary . But we being sixty miles distant from Williamsburg , he left the colony before we had an opportunity of hearing him . But in the year 1743 , a young ...
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... preached his first sermon to us from Luke xiii . 3 , and continued with us preaching four days successively . The congregation was large the first day , and vastly increased the three ensuing . It is hard for the imagination to form an ...
... preached his first sermon to us from Luke xiii . 3 , and continued with us preaching four days successively . The congregation was large the first day , and vastly increased the three ensuing . It is hard for the imagination to form an ...
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