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 ...S. Andrus & son, 1855 |
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... observation , they had been from time to time deposited . Authors who write from this source alone , are generally diffuse , and wanting in those very essential and minute particulars , which in these days constitute so important a part ...
... observation , they had been from time to time deposited . Authors who write from this source alone , are generally diffuse , and wanting in those very essential and minute particulars , which in these days constitute so important a part ...
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... observe , that our wilderness - condition hath been full of humbling , trying , dis- tressing providences . We have had our Massahs and Meribahs ; and few of our churches but have had some remarkable hours of temptation passing over ...
... observe , that our wilderness - condition hath been full of humbling , trying , dis- tressing providences . We have had our Massahs and Meribahs ; and few of our churches but have had some remarkable hours of temptation passing over ...
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... observing the gradual declinings that are amongst us from the holy ways of God ; we are forced to cry out , and say ... observation which hath visited my thoughts : that the Lord hath blessed the family of the MATHERS , amongst us ...
... observing the gradual declinings that are amongst us from the holy ways of God ; we are forced to cry out , and say ... observation which hath visited my thoughts : that the Lord hath blessed the family of the MATHERS , amongst us ...
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... observe , that for the description of the whole world in the Book of Genesis , that first - born of all historians , the great Moses , implies but one or two chapters , whereas he implies , it may be seven times as many chapters , in ...
... observe , that for the description of the whole world in the Book of Genesis , that first - born of all historians , the great Moses , implies but one or two chapters , whereas he implies , it may be seven times as many chapters , in ...
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... observation of the atten- tive , in almost every paragraph ; but I must confess , that I am of his mind who said ... observe that learned men have been so terrified by the reproaches of pedantry , which little smatterers at reading and ...
... observation of the atten- tive , in almost every paragraph ; but I must confess , that I am of his mind who said ... observe that learned men have been so terrified by the reproaches of pedantry , which little smatterers at reading and ...
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