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... asked his neighbor to a dish of clams , after dinner returned thanks to God , who had given them to suck of the abundance of the seas , and of treasure hid in the sands . They had appointed the 22d of Febru- ary for a fast ; but on the ...
... asked his neighbor to a dish of clams , after dinner returned thanks to God , who had given them to suck of the abundance of the seas , and of treasure hid in the sands . They had appointed the 22d of Febru- ary for a fast ; but on the ...
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... asking the way to Zion with their faces thither- ward . They say , Come , and let us join ourselves to the Lord in a perpetual covenant , not to be forgotten , ma- king a credible profession of faith and repentance . This is the happy ...
... asking the way to Zion with their faces thither- ward . They say , Come , and let us join ourselves to the Lord in a perpetual covenant , not to be forgotten , ma- king a credible profession of faith and repentance . This is the happy ...
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... asked him , Who shall judge Indians now ? They then obliged the people in the house to get them some victuals ; and when they had done eating , they cut the major across the breast and belly with knives , each one with a stroke saying ...
... asked him , Who shall judge Indians now ? They then obliged the people in the house to get them some victuals ; and when they had done eating , they cut the major across the breast and belly with knives , each one with a stroke saying ...
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... asked the woman what would be a proper remedy ; she answered , Occapee , which is the Indian word for rum , of which she knew he had taken a bottle from her house . The remedy being agreeable , he took a large dose , and fell asleep ...
... asked the woman what would be a proper remedy ; she answered , Occapee , which is the Indian word for rum , of which she knew he had taken a bottle from her house . The remedy being agreeable , he took a large dose , and fell asleep ...
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... asked for each other grace sufficient for what God should call us to . After we were parted , she spent the few remaining minutes of her stay in reading the holy Scriptures , which she was wont personally every day to delight her soul ...
... asked for each other grace sufficient for what God should call us to . After we were parted , she spent the few remaining minutes of her stay in reading the holy Scriptures , which she was wont personally every day to delight her soul ...
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Page 164 - Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin.
Page 46 - Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save ; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear : but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
Page 112 - I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave : I am deprived of the residue of my years. I said, I shall not see the LORD, Even the LORD, in the land of the living : I shall behold man no more With the inhabitants of the world.
Page 12 - Being thus arrived in a good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stable earth, their proper element.
Page 278 - 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 155 - For a small moment have I forsaken thee ; But with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; But with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, Saith the Lord thy Redeemer.
Page 187 - Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday ; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth. Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab ; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler : for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
Page 7 - His truth, they shook off this yoke of antichristian bondage, and as the Lord's free people joined themselves (by a covenant of the Lord) into a church estate, in the fellowship of the gospel, to walk in all His ways made known, or to be made known unto them, according to their best endeavours, whatsoever it should cost them, the Lord assisting them.8 And that it cost them something this ensuing history will declare.
Page 137 - He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; He breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; He burneth the chariot in the fire. Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
Page 397 - At the same time let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever. That we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.