 | Benjamin Trumbull - 1818 - 574 pages
...that concern the gather- covenant ing and ordering of a church, so also in all public offices, a'a which concern civil order, as choice of magistrates...which the scripture held forth to them." This was adopted as a general agreement, until there should be time for the people to become more intimately... | |
 | 1824 - 232 pages
...gathering and ordering of a Church, so also in all publick offices which concern civil order ; as clwice of Magistrates and officers, making and repealing...the rules which the scripture held forth to them." By this covenant they were regulated the first year. On the llth Dec. 1638, they purchased another... | |
 | John Warner Barber - 1836 - 598 pages
...gathering and ordering of a church, so also in all public offices which concern civil order, as the choice of magistrates and officers, making and repealing...which the scripture held forth to them." This was adopted as a general agreement, until there should be time for the people (o become more intimately... | |
 | James Luce Kingsley - 1838 - 128 pages
...formed and subscribed what they denominated a " plantation covenant." By this instrument they engaged, "that as in matters that concern the gathering and...rules, which the scripture held forth to them."* This may be considered the original civil constitution of the New Haven colony. It was brief, but comprehensive,... | |
 | Edward Rodolphus Lambert - 1838 - 270 pages
...magistrates and officers, making and repealing laws, dividing allotments of inheritance, and all things of a like nature they would all of them be ordered by the Rules which the Scriptures do hold forth. The settlers made their purchase of the land of Quinnipiack, of Mornauguin,... | |
 | John Warner Barber - 1841 - 590 pages
...close of a day of fasting and prayer, they entered into what they termed a plantation covenant. In this they solemnly bound themselves,' That as in matters...which the scripture held forth to them.' This was adopted as a general agreement, until there should be time for the people to become more intimately... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1004 pages
...magistrates and officers, making and repealing laws, dividing allotments of inheritance, and all things of a like nature, they would all of them, be ordered by...the rules which the scripture held forth to them." ยง 69. They continued to act under this agreement until 1639, when, on the 4th of June, all the free... | |
 | 1849 - 624 pages
...pilgrims, they had solemnly engaged, that, in their civil as well as in their religious concerns, " they would all of them be ordered by the rules which the Scriptures do hold forth." Some of the first settlers of New Haven were Millenarians, or believers... | |
 | 1849 - 516 pages
...Plymouth pilgrims, they had solemnly engaged, that, in their aivil as well as in their religious concerns, "they would all of them be ordered by the rules which the Scriptures do hold forth." J^ome of the first settlers of New Haven were Millenarians, or believers... | |
 | Amzi Benedict Davenport - 1851 - 420 pages
...formed and subscribed what they denominated a " plantation covenant." By this instrument they engaged "that as in matters that concern the gathering and...ordered by the rules which the Scripture held forth to * Life of John Davenport by Eev. Mr. M'Clure, p. 276. them." This may be considered the original civil... | |
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That, as in matters that concern the gathering and ordering of a church, so also in all public offices, which concern civil order, as choice of magistrates and officers, making and repealing laws, dividing allotments of inheritance, and all things of... 
