A Sermon, Delivered Before His Excellency Caleb Strong, Esq., Governor, the Honorable the Council, Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, May 26, 1802: Being the Day of General ElectionYoung & Minns, state printers, 1802 - 36 pages |
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... feel ourselves juftified to GoD and the univerfe , in appealing to arms in our late glorious revolution ... Our cause was just , and heaven fucceeded it . The contest was severe , but victory and glory followed . The fun of freedom ...
... feel ourselves juftified to GoD and the univerfe , in appealing to arms in our late glorious revolution ... Our cause was just , and heaven fucceeded it . The contest was severe , but victory and glory followed . The fun of freedom ...
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... feel any , for at the head of this venerable affembly was our late ILLUSTRIOUS CHIEF . But not in arms like a per- petual Dictator , awing them into fubmiflion to his will . No .; for like Timolion when he faw his coun- try free , he ...
... feel any , for at the head of this venerable affembly was our late ILLUSTRIOUS CHIEF . But not in arms like a per- petual Dictator , awing them into fubmiflion to his will . No .; for like Timolion when he faw his coun- try free , he ...
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... feel himself accountable to fuch a BEING , as in one who gives evidence that he acts under the influence of religious principle , and with a view to a day of final retribution ? If we look back into the remotest depths of Jew- ifh ...
... feel himself accountable to fuch a BEING , as in one who gives evidence that he acts under the influence of religious principle , and with a view to a day of final retribution ? If we look back into the remotest depths of Jew- ifh ...
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... feel myself authorized , ei ther to eulogize or to cenfure . It is but just to obferve , that our prefent Chief Magiftrate , as well as his predeceffors , was among the first afferters of our freedom and indepen- dence . At this early ...
... feel myself authorized , ei ther to eulogize or to cenfure . It is but just to obferve , that our prefent Chief Magiftrate , as well as his predeceffors , was among the first afferters of our freedom and indepen- dence . At this early ...
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... feel , in his election to the second office in the gift of the people of this Commonwealth . From his long acquaint ance with our public affairs , as well as from his tal- ents and patriotifm , we have full confidence in his affiftance ...
... feel , in his election to the second office in the gift of the people of this Commonwealth . From his long acquaint ance with our public affairs , as well as from his tal- ents and patriotifm , we have full confidence in his affiftance ...
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Page 3 - And their nobles shall be of themselves, And their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; And I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: For who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? saith the Lord. And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
Page 7 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 23 - EXCEPT the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it : except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
Page 11 - The voluntary outpouring of the public feeling, made to-day, from the North to the South, and from the East to the West, proves this sentiment to be both just and natural.
Page 24 - Let thy work appear unto thy servants, And thy glory unto their children. And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: And establish thou the work of our hands upon us; Yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
Page 28 - But as it is easy to foresee, that from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed, to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth; as this is the point in your political fortress against which the batteries of internal and external enemies will be most constantly and actively (though often covertly and insidiously) directed...
Page 24 - The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit : A broken and a contrite heart, O God, Thou wilt not despise. Do good in Thy good pleasure unto Zion : Build Thou the walls of Jerusalem.
Page 21 - And in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the countries. 6 And nation was "destroyed of nation, and city of city : for God did vex them with all adversity.
Page 5 - The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude. 11 (The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!) 12 How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
Page 10 - ... remain after the manner thereof. And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small. Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them.