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... things , and that there may be a furniture of Materials for a true and full History in after - times . For these and such - like Reasons we are willing to Recommend unto the Reader this present Narrative as a Useful Piece . The Author ...
... things , and that there may be a furniture of Materials for a true and full History in after - times . For these and such - like Reasons we are willing to Recommend unto the Reader this present Narrative as a Useful Piece . The Author ...
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... things which they found around them , is a mere ex- travagance arising out of a total misapprehension of the nature of humility , and of the merits of the feeling of ven- eration . " All earnestness and depth of character is ...
... things which they found around them , is a mere ex- travagance arising out of a total misapprehension of the nature of humility , and of the merits of the feeling of ven- eration . " All earnestness and depth of character is ...
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... things from an abler pen , and better digested , than now you may expect . Certain diurnals of the honored Mr. Edward Wins- low have also afforded me good light and help : and what from them both , and otherwise I have obtained , that I ...
... things from an abler pen , and better digested , than now you may expect . Certain diurnals of the honored Mr. Edward Wins- low have also afforded me good light and help : and what from them both , and otherwise I have obtained , that I ...
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... thing seem little , or the work despicable ; but on the contrary , let the greater praise be rendered unto God , who hath effected great things by small means . Let not the harshness of my style , prejudice thy taste or appetite to the ...
... thing seem little , or the work despicable ; but on the contrary , let the greater praise be rendered unto God , who hath effected great things by small means . Let not the harshness of my style , prejudice thy taste or appetite to the ...
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... things , to the intent that he may have the more glory to himself . Many instances hereof might be pro- duced , both out of the sacred Scriptures , and common expe- rience ; and amongst many others of this kind , the late happy and ...
... things , to the intent that he may have the more glory to himself . Many instances hereof might be pro- duced , both out of the sacred Scriptures , and common expe- rience ; and amongst many others of this kind , the late happy and ...
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Page 145 - If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the Spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
Page 25 - Having undertaken, for the glory of God and 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 407 - ... the Lord had more truth and light yet to break forth out of his holy Word.
Page 109 - O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea...
Page 407 - And so also, saith he, you see the Calvinists, they stick where he left them ; a misery much to be lamented ; for though they were precious shining lights in their times, yet God had not revealed his whole will to them ; and were they now living, saith he, they would be as ready and willing to embrace further light, as that they had received.
Page 145 - God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; and to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ...
Page 140 - 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 100 - God there, but only from the corruptions and disorders there ; and that they came away from the common prayer and ceremonies, and had suffered much for their nonconformity in their native land, and, therefore, being in a place where they might have their liberty, they neither could nor would use them, because they judged the imposition of these things to be sinful corruptions in the worship of God.
Page 176 - He was a person for study as well as action; and hence, notwithstanding the difficulties through which he passed in his youth, he attained unto a notable skill in languages: the Dutch tongue was become almost as vernacular to him as the English; the French tongue he could also manage; the Latin and the Greek he had mastered; but the Hebrew he most of all studied, 'Because', he said, 'he would see with his own eyes the ancient oracles of God in their native beauty.
Page 110 - Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone to many, yea in some sort to our whole nation; let the glorious name of Jehovah have all the praise.