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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... better reformation of the Church of God , than it hath yet appeared in the world . For by this Essay it may be seen , that a farther practical reformation than that which began at the first coming out of the darkness of Popery , was ...
... better reformation of the Church of God , than it hath yet appeared in the world . For by this Essay it may be seen , that a farther practical reformation than that which began at the first coming out of the darkness of Popery , was ...
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... better reformation , the sincere , though weak endeavours of the servants of God , that went before them , will be also accepted of the saints in those times of greater light and holiness , that are to come ; and when the Lord shall ...
... better reformation , the sincere , though weak endeavours of the servants of God , that went before them , will be also accepted of the saints in those times of greater light and holiness , that are to come ; and when the Lord shall ...
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... better World advanced . Such a people our Lord Jesus Christ hath procured and preserved in all ages visible ; and the dispensations of his wondrous Providence towards this People , ( for , " O Lord , thou dost lift them up and cast them ...
... better World advanced . Such a people our Lord Jesus Christ hath procured and preserved in all ages visible ; and the dispensations of his wondrous Providence towards this People , ( for , " O Lord , thou dost lift them up and cast them ...
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... better than the incomparable Thuanus , yet learned men have said of his work , what they never shall truly say of ours , that it con- tains mulla falsissima et indigna . † I find Erasmus himself mistaking one man for two , when writing ...
... better than the incomparable Thuanus , yet learned men have said of his work , what they never shall truly say of ours , that it con- tains mulla falsissima et indigna . † I find Erasmus himself mistaking one man for two , when writing ...
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... better things behind him than he found . " And more than all this , our Essay is levelled , if it be not anticipated with that Epitaph , Magnis tamen excidit ausis . Designing accordingly , to give the Church of God such displays of his ...
... better things behind him than he found . " And more than all this , our Essay is levelled , if it be not anticipated with that Epitaph , Magnis tamen excidit ausis . Designing accordingly , to give the Church of God such displays of his ...
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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.