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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... honour due , And children's children suffer on that score , Like bastards cast forlorn at any door ; And they and others put to seek their father , For want of such a scribe as COTTON MATHER ; Whose piety , whose pains , and peerless ...
... honour due , And children's children suffer on that score , Like bastards cast forlorn at any door ; And they and others put to seek their father , For want of such a scribe as COTTON MATHER ; Whose piety , whose pains , and peerless ...
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... honoured for our fathers ' sakes . Nor shall our pride end here : each future age Shall claim the honours , sparkling on ... honour to a more dignified employment . Their success was generally indifferent ; and even when fortunate , they ...
... honoured for our fathers ' sakes . Nor shall our pride end here : each future age Shall claim the honours , sparkling on ... honour to a more dignified employment . Their success was generally indifferent ; and even when fortunate , they ...
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... honoured and affected the Church of ENGLAND , and humbly petition to be a part of it : but by the mistake of a few powerful brethren , driven to seek a place for the exercise of the Protestant Religion , according to the light of their ...
... honoured and affected the Church of ENGLAND , and humbly petition to be a part of it : but by the mistake of a few powerful brethren , driven to seek a place for the exercise of the Protestant Religion , according to the light of their ...
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... honour of having the greatest reprobates for his worst enemies . + I'm pleased at last : victorious is my wit : The galled jade winces , and my mark is hit . — Martial , Epig . vi . 614 . A specimen of the bad taste for playing upon ...
... honour of having the greatest reprobates for his worst enemies . + I'm pleased at last : victorious is my wit : The galled jade winces , and my mark is hit . — Martial , Epig . vi . 614 . A specimen of the bad taste for playing upon ...
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... honour , and the sweetest pleasure , out of heaven , is to serve our illustrious Lord JESUS CHRIST , who hath " loved us , and given himself for us : " and unto whom it is infinitely reasonable that we should give our selves , and all ...
... honour , and the sweetest pleasure , out of heaven , is to serve our illustrious Lord JESUS CHRIST , who hath " loved us , and given himself for us : " and unto whom it is infinitely reasonable that we should give our selves , and all ...
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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.