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, 1853 |
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... CHRISTIAN . " 8. SAMUEL MATHER ; he is now a publick preacher . These three last mentioned , are the sons of INCREASE Mather . 9. SAMUEL MATHER , the son of TIMOTHY , and grandson of RICHARD MATHER ? He is the pastor of a church in ...
... CHRISTIAN . " 8. SAMUEL MATHER ; he is now a publick preacher . These three last mentioned , are the sons of INCREASE Mather . 9. SAMUEL MATHER , the son of TIMOTHY , and grandson of RICHARD MATHER ? He is the pastor of a church in ...
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... Christian warfare ART ALONE A HOST . A PINDARIC . Art thou Heaven's Trumpet ? sure by the Archangel blown ; Tombs ... Christ returns , he ' ll not return alone . J. DANFORTH , V. D. M. , Dorcestr . TO THE LEARNED AND REVEREND MR . COTTON ...
... Christian warfare ART ALONE A HOST . A PINDARIC . Art thou Heaven's Trumpet ? sure by the Archangel blown ; Tombs ... Christ returns , he ' ll not return alone . J. DANFORTH , V. D. M. , Dorcestr . TO THE LEARNED AND REVEREND MR . COTTON ...
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... Christian psalms and prayer , His Christian temple , and his pastor there ; God speaks the Indian's language , rude and wild , To teach His mercy to the forest - child . And more ! -- though Science older climes befits , And Europe ...
... Christian psalms and prayer , His Christian temple , and his pastor there ; God speaks the Indian's language , rude and wild , To teach His mercy to the forest - child . And more ! -- though Science older climes befits , And Europe ...
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... Christ and primitive Christianity : while others would not hear of going any further than the first Essay of Reformation ... christian apostasie be expired , “ the per- fection of Churches " too ; ut agnoscant se nunquam esse perfectas ...
... Christ and primitive Christianity : while others would not hear of going any further than the first Essay of Reformation ... christian apostasie be expired , “ the per- fection of Churches " too ; ut agnoscant se nunquam esse perfectas ...
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... Christ . ” Though , the Reformed Churches in the American Regions have , by very injurious represent- ations of their brethren , ( all which they desire to forget and forgive ! ) been many times thrown into a dung - cart ; yet , as they ...
... Christ . ” Though , the Reformed Churches in the American Regions have , by very injurious represent- ations of their brethren , ( all which they desire to forget and forgive ! ) been many times thrown into a dung - cart ; yet , as they ...
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Page 81 - 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 81 - 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 219 - 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 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 281 - 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 - If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; if my people which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways : then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Page 526 - Train up a child in the way that he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
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.
Page 81 - Mine enemies : and I will turn My hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin : and I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning : afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.