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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... providence , and their dealings with him in the ways of obedience or disobedience , should be recorded , and so transmitted for the use and benefit of after- times , from generation to generation ; as , ( Exodus xvii . 14 , ) “ The Lord ...
... providence , and their dealings with him in the ways of obedience or disobedience , should be recorded , and so transmitted for the use and benefit of after- times , from generation to generation ; as , ( Exodus xvii . 14 , ) “ The Lord ...
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... providence : Recording how that mighty hand was nigh , To trace out paths not known to mortal eye , To those brave men , that to this land came o'er , And plac'd them safe on the Atlantick shore ; And how the same hand did them after ...
... providence : Recording how that mighty hand was nigh , To trace out paths not known to mortal eye , To those brave men , that to this land came o'er , And plac'd them safe on the Atlantick shore ; And how the same hand did them after ...
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... Providence hath irradiated an Indian Wilderness . I relate the Considerable Matters , that produced and attended the First Settlement of COLONIES , which have been renowned for the degree of REFORMATION , professed and attained by ...
... Providence hath irradiated an Indian Wilderness . I relate the Considerable Matters , that produced and attended the First Settlement of COLONIES , which have been renowned for the degree of REFORMATION , professed and attained by ...
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... Providence towards this People , ( for , " O Lord , thou dost lift them up and cast them down ! " ) their calamities , their deliverances , the dispositions which they have still discovered , and the considerable persons and actions ...
... Providence towards this People , ( for , " O Lord , thou dost lift them up and cast them down ! " ) their calamities , their deliverances , the dispositions which they have still discovered , and the considerable persons and actions ...
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... Providence hitherto protected and " No one is more illiberal than he Whom ignorance has bloated with conceit : - Nought is well done but what he does himself . " - TERENCE , Adelphi , Act . i . , Scene 2 , ver . 18 . preserved ; and of ...
... Providence hitherto protected and " No one is more illiberal than he Whom ignorance has bloated with conceit : - Nought is well done but what he does himself . " - TERENCE , Adelphi , Act . i . , Scene 2 , ver . 18 . preserved ; and of ...
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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.