The Blue Laws of New Haven Colony, Usually Called Blue Laws of Connecticut, Quaker Laws of Plymouth and Massachusetts, Blue Laws of New York, Maryland, Virginia, and South Carolina, First Record of Connecticut: Interesting Extracts from Connecticut Records, Cases of Salem Witchcraft, Charges and Banishment of Rev. Roger Williams, &c., and Other Interesting and Instructive Antiquities |
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... thing contained in the Blue Laws them- selves . ( A few of them have been published in Barber's An- tiquities of New ... things by their right names , either in conversa- tion or upon record . They have spoken in plain scripture lan ...
... thing contained in the Blue Laws them- selves . ( A few of them have been published in Barber's An- tiquities of New ... things by their right names , either in conversa- tion or upon record . They have spoken in plain scripture lan ...
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... thing , depending upon the spirit of the times and the popu- lar superstition when it existed . Prosecutions for withcraft have been from the earliest period , even in the Roman empire , and in the middle ages ; as in the case of the ...
... thing , depending upon the spirit of the times and the popu- lar superstition when it existed . Prosecutions for withcraft have been from the earliest period , even in the Roman empire , and in the middle ages ; as in the case of the ...
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... things bee carried peaceably and orderly . War- rants issued out accordingly . Same Record . Whereas Mary Dyer is condemned by the general court to be executed for her offences : on the petition of Wil- liam Dyer , her son , it is ...
... things bee carried peaceably and orderly . War- rants issued out accordingly . Same Record . Whereas Mary Dyer is condemned by the general court to be executed for her offences : on the petition of Wil- liam Dyer , her son , it is ...
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... things broken and transgressed the lawes and waies of God : and equitie is not before thy eyes , the curse causeless cannot come upon thee , nor the vengeance of God unjustly cannot fetch thee up ; thou makest thyselfe merry with thy ...
... things broken and transgressed the lawes and waies of God : and equitie is not before thy eyes , the curse causeless cannot come upon thee , nor the vengeance of God unjustly cannot fetch thee up ; thou makest thyselfe merry with thy ...
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... things is charged upon thy head , and as a peale of hailestones will pealte upon thy hart ; thou hast perverted justice and true judg- ment and hast defrauded the poor and needy ; thou hast caused to defraud the righteouse owner of his ...
... things is charged upon thy head , and as a peale of hailestones will pealte upon thy hart ; thou hast perverted justice and true judg- ment and hast defrauded the poor and needy ; thou hast caused to defraud the righteouse owner of his ...
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Page 265 - And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul : neither said any of them that aught of the things which he possessed was his own } but they had all things common.
Page 270 - For whosoever will save his life shall lose it ; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the Gospel's, the same shall save it.
Page 98 - I, AB, do swear, That I do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position, That princes excommunicated or deprived by the pope, or any authority of the see of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever.
Page 103 - If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and that when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them...
Page 98 - And I do solemnly in the presence of God profess, testify, and declare, that I do make this declaration, and every part thereof, in the plain and ordinary sense of the words read unto me, as they are commonly understood by English Protestants, without any evasion, equivocation, or mental reservation whatsoever...
Page 67 - Whereas, Mr. Roger Williams, one of the elders of the church of Salem, hath broached and divulged divers new and dangerous opinions against the authority of magistrates ; as also writ letters of defamation, both of the magistrates and churches...
Page 98 - I AB do sincerely promise and swear, That I will be faithful, and bear true allegiance, to their Majesties King William and Queen Mary: So help me God.
Page 99 - Second and since his decease pretended to be and took upon himself the style and title of King of England by the name of James the Third or of Scotland by the name of James the Eighth or the style and title of King of Great Britain hath any right or title whatsoever to the crown of this realm or any other the dominions thereunto belonging.
Page 98 - I do declare, that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence, or authority ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm: So help me God.
Page 99 - Do truly and sincerely acknowledge, profess, testify and declare in my conscience before God and the world that our Sovereign Lord King George is lawful and rightful King of this realm and all other His Majesty's dominions and countries thereunto belonging.