The Colonial Parson of New England: A PictureBaker & Taylor Company, 1896 - 218 páginas |
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Aaron Cleveland affairs ancestors Arthur Dimmesdale beautiful became Bible character Charles Chauncey church clergyman colonial days colonial parson common congregation Connecticut conspicuous Cotton Mather daughter discourse divine dominie Dwight early Edwards eminent ENGLAND TOWN experience fact fair farm favor feel fruit gave Greenfield Hill hand heart Higginson honor Hooker important impression impulse Increase Mather individual inheritances intellectual interest Jared Eliot John Cotton John Eliot Jonathan Edwards labors land literary literature lived manhood manifest manly married matter ment mind minis minister minister's ministry Nathaniel Nathaniel Ward numerous observed occasions opportunity ordination parish parsonage pastor peculiar poet political pounds prayer preacher preaching pulpit Puritan Richard Salter Storrs Samuel scholar sermon served sions social sons sort soul spirit tasks theological things Thomas Hooker tion to-day took town unto Ward worthy writers wrought young youth
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Página 71 - Thy hand has graced him. Nestled at his root Is beauty, such as blooms not in the glare Of the broad sun. That delicate forest flower, With scented breath and look so like a smile, Seems, as it issues from the shapeless mould, An emanation of the indwelling Life, A visible token of the upholding Love, That are the soul of this great universe.
Página 165 - They say there is a young lady in [New Haven] who is beloved of that Great Being, who made and rules the world, and that there are certain seasons in which this Great Being, in some way or other invisible, comes to her and fills her mind with exceeding sweet delight...
Página 166 - Being, in some way or other invisible, comes to her and fills her mind with exceeding sweet delight and that she hardly cares for anything except to meditate on Him, that she expects after a while to be received up where He is, to be raised up out of the world and caught up into heaven, being assured that He loves her too well to let her remain at a distance from Him always.
Página 26 - Skilful alike with tongue and pen, He preached to all men everywhere The Gospel of the Golden Rule, The New Commandment given to men, Thinking the deed, and not the creed, Would help us in our utmost need.
Página 72 - ... continent, and overwhelms Its cities — who forgets not, at the sight Of these tremendous tokens of thy power, His pride, and lays his strifes and follies by ? Oh, from these sterner aspects of thy face Spare me and mine, nor let us need the wrath Of the mad unchained elements to teach Who rules them. Be it ours to meditate, In these calm shades, thy milder majesty, And to the beautiful order of thy works Learn to conform the order of our lives.
Página 130 - In the church of the wilderness Edwards wrought, Shaping his creed at the forge of thought ; And with Thor's own hammer welded and bent The iron links of his argument, Which strove to grasp in its mighty span The purpose of God and the fate of...
Página 50 - All possibilities are in its hands, No danger daunts it, and no foe withstands; In its sublime audacity of faith, "Be thou removed!
Página 99 - s heart had each its column, * His head an index to the sacred volume. * His very name a title-page ; and next, * His life a commentary on the text. * O what a monument of glorious worth, * When in a new edition he comes forth, • Without erratas, may we think he'll be, * In leaves and covers of eternity...
Página 224 - That first he wrought, and afterward he taught. Out of the gospel he the wordes caught, And this figure he added yet therto, That if gold ruste, what shuld iren do? For if a preest be foule, on whom we trust, No wonder is a lewed man to rust...
Página 80 - Take counsel, execute judgment; Make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday ; Hide the outcasts ; bewray not him that wandereth. Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab ; Be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler : For the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, The oppressors are consumed out of the land.