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... beginning a nation . Dr. John Fiske says : " Among the most significant events which prophesied the final triumph of the English over the Roman idea , perhaps the most significant - the one which marks most incisively the new era - was ...
... beginning a nation . Dr. John Fiske says : " Among the most significant events which prophesied the final triumph of the English over the Roman idea , perhaps the most significant - the one which marks most incisively the new era - was ...
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... beginning of a great nation standing proudly in the forefront of Christian civilization - all these are materials which give to the begin- nings of the youngest of the nations an interest unsurpassed by the ruins of the oldest . The ...
... beginning of a great nation standing proudly in the forefront of Christian civilization - all these are materials which give to the begin- nings of the youngest of the nations an interest unsurpassed by the ruins of the oldest . The ...
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... OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS SCROOBY AND AUSTERFIELD II . FAGE 15 40 III . 73 BEGINNINGS OF CHURCH LIFE . THE EXILES IN HOLLAND IV . V. The Writings of. ( From a sketch by CHARLES WHYMPER . ) THE OLD MANOR HOUSE , SCROOBY .
... OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS SCROOBY AND AUSTERFIELD II . FAGE 15 40 III . 73 BEGINNINGS OF CHURCH LIFE . THE EXILES IN HOLLAND IV . V. The Writings of. ( From a sketch by CHARLES WHYMPER . ) THE OLD MANOR HOUSE , SCROOBY .
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... beginning of new life , and so the Founder of Christianity remains the most recreative force in the religion He founded . While John Wickliff and his followers may not have been the first to assail priestly pretensions , they appear to ...
... beginning of new life , and so the Founder of Christianity remains the most recreative force in the religion He founded . While John Wickliff and his followers may not have been the first to assail priestly pretensions , they appear to ...
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... beginning with the trial of Wickliff , and ending with that of William Balowe , who was burned in 1466 , more than a hundred and twenty persons were tried for heresy- even this list being far from complete . Thirty years later we still ...
... beginning with the trial of Wickliff , and ending with that of William Balowe , who was burned in 1466 , more than a hundred and twenty persons were tried for heresy- even this list being far from complete . Thirty years later we still ...
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Page 94 - Jeremiah did, because of the reproach and derision he met with daily, "and all his familiar friends watched for his halting," to be revenged on him for speaking the truth, he would be forced to confess as he confessed; "his word was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones; I was weary with forbearing, and could not stay.
Page 37 - Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, — Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
Page 261 - The houses are constructed of hewn planks, with gardens also inclosed behind and at the sides with hewn planks, so that their houses and courtyards are arranged in very good order, with a stockade, against a sudden attack ; and at the ends of the streets there are three wooden gates.
Page 199 - God, and advancemente of ye Christian faith, and honour of our king and countrie, a voyage to plant ye first colonie in ye Northerne parts of Virginia, doe by these presents solemnly...
Page 181 - And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them : and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
Page 319 - They who have power to appoint officers and magistrates, it is in their power, also, to set the bounds and limitations of the...
Page 200 - ... ends aforesaid; and by vertue hearof to enacte, constitute, and frame such just and equall lawes, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meete and convenient for the generall good of the Colonie, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Page 158 - Lastly, (and which was not least), a great hope and inward zeal they had of laying some good foundation, or at least to make some way thereunto, for the propagations and advancing the gospel of the kingdom of Christ in those remote parts of the world; yea, though they should be but even as stepping-stones unto others for the performing of so great a work.
Page 28 - Harrison, preaching against bishops, ceremonies, ecclesiastical courts, ordaining of ministers, &c. for which $ as he afterwards boasted, he had been committed to thirty-two prisons, in some of which he could not see his hand at noon-day.
Page 117 - She honoured her place and was an ornament to the congregation. She usually sat in a convenient place in the congregation, with a little birchen rod in her hand, and kept little children in great awe from disturbing the congregation.