Lives of the Chief Fathers of New England, Volumen5Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, 1847 |
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... important purpose ; were trained for it by a most extraordinary discipline ; and bravely , nobly , did they accomplish their vocation . Their characters , on every account , are worthy of our study . The knowledge and the benefits of ...
... important purpose ; were trained for it by a most extraordinary discipline ; and bravely , nobly , did they accomplish their vocation . Their characters , on every account , are worthy of our study . The knowledge and the benefits of ...
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... important transactions of their lives . It is fitting , therefore , that their Memoirs should stand together . Sir William Phipps was in the strictest sense , what is sometimes called a self - made man . He com- menced life under the ...
... important transactions of their lives . It is fitting , therefore , that their Memoirs should stand together . Sir William Phipps was in the strictest sense , what is sometimes called a self - made man . He com- menced life under the ...
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... important measure , were the following , as re- corded by himself : " It is right to remove , 1. From a corrupt church to a purer . 2. From a place , where the truth and the pro- fessors of it are persecuted , unto a place of more quiet ...
... important measure , were the following , as re- corded by himself : " It is right to remove , 1. From a corrupt church to a purer . 2. From a place , where the truth and the pro- fessors of it are persecuted , unto a place of more quiet ...
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... important stations which he occupied , the circles of piety in which he moved , the works which he published , and especially from the character given of him by Dr. Watts , there can be no doubt that he was a learned , gifted , devoted ...
... important stations which he occupied , the circles of piety in which he moved , the works which he published , and especially from the character given of him by Dr. Watts , there can be no doubt that he was a learned , gifted , devoted ...
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... important occurrences , and recorded some- thing of his religious experience . I shall have occasion to speak of the diary again , in a subse- quent chapter . At present , I only give some brief extracts from it , illustrative of his ...
... important occurrences , and recorded some- thing of his religious experience . I shall have occasion to speak of the diary again , in a subse- quent chapter . At present , I only give some brief extracts from it , illustrative of his ...
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Página 85 - If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments ; If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments ; Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
Página 202 - My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass : Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
Página 266 - Nevertheless, we cannot but humbly recommend unto the government, the speedy and vigorous prosecution of such as have rendered themselves obnoxious, according to the direction given in the laws of God. and the wholesome statutes of the English nation, for the detection of witchcrafts.
Página 127 - Testimony to the order of the Gospel in the Churches of New England...
Página 38 - Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men...
Página 156 - To deny the possibility, nay, actual existence, of witchcraft and sorcery is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God, in various passages both of the Old and New Testament : and the thing itself is a truth to which every nation in the world hath in its turn borne testimony, either by examples seemingly well attested or by prohibitory laws ; which at least suppose the possibility of commerce with evil spirits.
Página 147 - Woe is me, for I am undone, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips ; for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of Hosts.
Página 87 - commended it unto the serious consideration of all the churches and people in the jurisdiction, enjoining and requiring all persons, in their respective capacities, to a careful and diligent reformation of all those provoking evils mentioned therein, according to the true intent thereof, that so the anger and displeasure of God, many ways manifested, might be averted, and his favor and blessing...
Página 239 - I did then begin to think what I should do to be saved, and did bewail my youthful days, which I had spent in vain. I did think that I would begin to mind the things of God. Being then some time under your father's ministry, much troubled with my burden, but thinking of that Scripture, " Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest...
Página 21 - If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.