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... religious men , most of whom were Home Missionaries - they were established upon religious principles - have grown up under religious influences , and have all been repeatedly blest with the converting influences of the Holy Spirit . In ...
... religious men , most of whom were Home Missionaries - they were established upon religious principles - have grown up under religious influences , and have all been repeatedly blest with the converting influences of the Holy Spirit . In ...
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... religious , is already urged forward here , and is to be re- sisted immediately and with the energy of a strife for life ? Has the on- set abated in virulence within this period ? rather are not the civil and ecclesiastical despotisms ...
... religious , is already urged forward here , and is to be re- sisted immediately and with the energy of a strife for life ? Has the on- set abated in virulence within this period ? rather are not the civil and ecclesiastical despotisms ...
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... religious orders , are offering ( what professes to be ) education al- most as a gratuity , in many places in the West . Whatever other qual- ities her education may lack , we may be sure it will not want a subtle and intense ...
... religious orders , are offering ( what professes to be ) education al- most as a gratuity , in many places in the West . Whatever other qual- ities her education may lack , we may be sure it will not want a subtle and intense ...
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... religious character of the colleges already planted , and hoping that the combining of religion with learn- ing , which constitutes so marked a feature of American education , would render this the missionary nation of the world . An ...
... religious character of the colleges already planted , and hoping that the combining of religion with learn- ing , which constitutes so marked a feature of American education , would render this the missionary nation of the world . An ...
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... religion in the western country , and said , that the people needed foreign aid in this respect . It is impos- sible for the institutions of the West , literary or religious , to keep pace with the tide of emigration even from the ...
... religion in the western country , and said , that the people needed foreign aid in this respect . It is impos- sible for the institutions of the West , literary or religious , to keep pace with the tide of emigration even from the ...
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Page 1 - After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Page 55 - As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord ; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.
Page 37 - For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Page 36 - Work; it pleased God to stir up the heart of one Mr. Harvard (a godly Gentleman and a lover of Learning, there living amongst us) to give the one halfe of his Estate (it being in all about ^1700) towards the erecting of a Colledge, and all his Library...
Page 23 - Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. 10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.
Page 21 - Ireland, king, defender of the faith, etc., having undertaken, for the glory of God and the advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia...
Page 30 - Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low : and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together ; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Page 23 - Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours : and our enemies laugh among themselves. 7 Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine ; and we shall be saved. 8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt : thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
Page 58 - Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you ; and I will not be burdensome to you : for I seek not yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
Page 3 - far be it from me to countenance anything contrary to your established laws; but I have set an acorn, which when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof.