Lives of the Chief Fathers of New England, Volumen2 |
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His explanation of the combat and his significant dream , must be regarded as
prophetic , if it be allowed that every prediction which actually comes to pass , is a
true prophecy . Our fathers , no doubt , paid too much attention to signs and ...
His explanation of the combat and his significant dream , must be regarded as
prophetic , if it be allowed that every prediction which actually comes to pass , is a
true prophecy . Our fathers , no doubt , paid too much attention to signs and ...
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inative man , without being at all regarded as a special revelation , it might well
seem to encourage high expectation and strenuous effort . Many instances are
on record , of men of ardent piety who , in difficult circumstances , have been
guided ...
inative man , without being at all regarded as a special revelation , it might well
seem to encourage high expectation and strenuous effort . Many instances are
on record , of men of ardent piety who , in difficult circumstances , have been
guided ...
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set , that what has been unjustly regarded as the reign of intolerance in New
England , was neither severe , nor was it of long continuance . There is a letter
written by Dr. Cotton Mather , doubtless to Lord Barrington , and dated the fourth
of ...
set , that what has been unjustly regarded as the reign of intolerance in New
England , was neither severe , nor was it of long continuance . There is a letter
written by Dr. Cotton Mather , doubtless to Lord Barrington , and dated the fourth
of ...
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That our forefathers , in the first days of their republic , should exclude from their
society all disaffected and turbulent characters , is to be regarded as an act of self
- defence , rather than as an aggression upon those whom they expelled .
That our forefathers , in the first days of their republic , should exclude from their
society all disaffected and turbulent characters , is to be regarded as an act of self
- defence , rather than as an aggression upon those whom they expelled .
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Suffice it to say , that our fathers , in whose memory these tragedies were fresh ,
regarded an Anabaptist even as Edmund Burke would have regarded a French
Jacobin reeking from the atrocities of “ the reign of terror . ” Now this infelicity ...
Suffice it to say , that our fathers , in whose memory these tragedies were fresh ,
regarded an Anabaptist even as Edmund Burke would have regarded a French
Jacobin reeking from the atrocities of “ the reign of terror . ” Now this infelicity ...
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Página 141 - What shall we do then? 11 He answereth, and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none ; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.
Página 275 - Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.
Página 144 - The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Página 269 - Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. 16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
Página 282 - 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.
Página 219 - The Heart of New England rent at the blasphemies of the present generation.
Página 209 - On whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest; who had been destined, before heaven and earth were created, to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth should have passed away.
Página 179 - But who may abide the day of his coming ? and who shall stand when he appeareth ? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap. And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver ; and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that thejr may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.
Página 269 - Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
Página 36 - Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone to many, yea in some sort to our whole nation; let the glorious name of Jehovah have all the praise.