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... seen it . While in the possession of Prince , who died in 1758 , the manuscript was deposited in the New England Library in the tower of the Old South Church in Boston , from which , after the siege of the city , it mysteriously ...
... seen it . While in the possession of Prince , who died in 1758 , the manuscript was deposited in the New England Library in the tower of the Old South Church in Boston , from which , after the siege of the city , it mysteriously ...
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... seen cited as from Bradford's History by Morton and Prince . He at once took the volume to his friend , Charles Deane , Esq . , of the Massachusetts Historical Society , to whom he communicated his sus- picion that Wilberforce's ...
... seen cited as from Bradford's History by Morton and Prince . He at once took the volume to his friend , Charles Deane , Esq . , of the Massachusetts Historical Society , to whom he communicated his sus- picion that Wilberforce's ...
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... seen many returning with tears , and many too , in like manner , with tears receiving such persons into communion , so that nothing could be more delightful.'1 Of the existence of the church under the pastorate of Richard Fitz we have ...
... seen many returning with tears , and many too , in like manner , with tears receiving such persons into communion , so that nothing could be more delightful.'1 Of the existence of the church under the pastorate of Richard Fitz we have ...
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... seen in the Romish ideas and practices prevailing . In the north especially , large districts had scarcely been even touched by the Reformation , and many of the great county families with their retainers still held tenaciously by the ...
... seen in the Romish ideas and practices prevailing . In the north especially , large districts had scarcely been even touched by the Reformation , and many of the great county families with their retainers still held tenaciously by the ...
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... seen in the Romish ideas and practices prevailing . In the north especially , large districts had scarcely been even touched by the Reformation , and many of the great county families with their retainers still held tenaciously by the ...
... seen in the Romish ideas and practices prevailing . In the north especially , large districts had scarcely been even touched by the Reformation , and many of the great county families with their retainers still held tenaciously by the ...
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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.