Magnalia Christi Americana: Or, The Ecclesiastical History of New-England; from Its First Planting, in the Year 1620, Unto the Year of Our Lord 1698. In Seven Books, Volume 1S. Andrus and son, 1855 |
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... Allen's Amer . Biog . Dict . is also a good and candid one . Of the more recent and laboured lives of our subject , we have not room to speak . of Dorchester and Sarah his wife , appointed guardians to MEMOIR OF COTTON MATHER . xxxix.
... Allen's Amer . Biog . Dict . is also a good and candid one . Of the more recent and laboured lives of our subject , we have not room to speak . of Dorchester and Sarah his wife , appointed guardians to MEMOIR OF COTTON MATHER . xxxix.
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... labour of thy mind- Thy country's boon , a treasure to mankind . Though here thou writest others ' lives , yet thine Shall glow resplendent in each living line . [ THE art of making anagrams , or constructing characteristic sentences by ...
... labour of thy mind- Thy country's boon , a treasure to mankind . Though here thou writest others ' lives , yet thine Shall glow resplendent in each living line . [ THE art of making anagrams , or constructing characteristic sentences by ...
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... labours such , In their just praise , sir , who can say too much ? Let the remotest parts of earth behold , New - England's crowns excelling Spanish gold . Here be rare lessons set for us to read , That offsprings are of such a goodly ...
... labours such , In their just praise , sir , who can say too much ? Let the remotest parts of earth behold , New - England's crowns excelling Spanish gold . Here be rare lessons set for us to read , That offsprings are of such a goodly ...
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... labour that would resolve to conquer all things ; and that all the improvements which the later ages have made in the sciences , might be also , with an inexpressible pleasure , called in , to Christ the illustration of the holy oracles ...
... labour that would resolve to conquer all things ; and that all the improvements which the later ages have made in the sciences , might be also , with an inexpressible pleasure , called in , to Christ the illustration of the holy oracles ...
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... laboured than this of ours , escape Zoilian outrages when in all ages the most exquisite works have been as much vilified as Plato's by Scaliger , and Aristotle's by Lactantius ? In the time of our K. Edward VI . there was an order to ...
... laboured than this of ours , escape Zoilian outrages when in all ages the most exquisite works have been as much vilified as Plato's by Scaliger , and Aristotle's by Lactantius ? In the time of our K. Edward VI . there was an order to ...
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Page 95 - Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God...
Page 66 - This is a misery much to be lamented, for though they were burning and shining lights in their times, yet they penetrated not into the whole counsel of God, but were they now living, would be as willing to embrace further light as that which they first received.
Page xxxv - Good," which I think was written by your father. It had been so little regarded by a former possessor, that several leaves of it were torn out ; but the remainder gave me such a turn of thinking, as to have an influence on my conduct through life; for I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good, than on any other kind of reputation; and if I have been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the public owes the advantage of it to that book.
Page 16 - For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy...
Page 98 - That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; Who should arise and declare them to their children : that they might set their hope in God ; And not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments...
Page 275 - I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
Page 549 - One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
Page xxxv - This advice, thus beat into my head, has frequently been of use to me; and I often think of it, when I see pride mortified, and misfortunes brought upon people by their carrying their heads too high.
Page 343 - But I say unto you, It shall ,be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you. And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell : for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.
Page 16 - The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers; let him not leave us nor forsake us; that he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.