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... miles along a creek , passing over hills and valleys , the snow being half a foot deep . Having become weary , they encamped for the night under a cluster of pine - trees . They had eaten little during the day ; but a kind Providence ...
... miles along a creek , passing over hills and valleys , the snow being half a foot deep . Having become weary , they encamped for the night under a cluster of pine - trees . They had eaten little during the day ; but a kind Providence ...
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... miles distant . The next morning they divided their company , a part travelling along the shore , while the rest coasted along the shoals . About nine or ten o'clock , they lost sight of the shallop . They roved about , making ...
... miles distant . The next morning they divided their company , a part travelling along the shore , while the rest coasted along the shoals . About nine or ten o'clock , they lost sight of the shallop . They roved about , making ...
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... miles , were seen great smokes arising from the fires of the In- dians . " Though most of the company were on board the ship on the Lord's day , December 31st , yet some of them kept the Sabbath for the first time in their new house ...
... miles , were seen great smokes arising from the fires of the In- dians . " Though most of the company were on board the ship on the Lord's day , December 31st , yet some of them kept the Sabbath for the first time in their new house ...
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... miles above Charlestown , and most of them engaged to build houses there another year . The weather held tolerable until the 24th of December ; but the cold then came on with vio- lence . Such a Christmas eve they had never seen before ...
... miles above Charlestown , and most of them engaged to build houses there another year . The weather held tolerable until the 24th of December ; but the cold then came on with vio- lence . Such a Christmas eve they had never seen before ...
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... miles distant , whereas it was nearly fifty By the way , they met with two Indian squaws , who , re turning home , told their husbands that they had met two Englishmen . Concluding that they had been shipwrecked , the Indians went after ...
... miles distant , whereas it was nearly fifty By the way , they met with two Indian squaws , who , re turning home , told their husbands that they had met two Englishmen . Concluding that they had been shipwrecked , the Indians went after ...
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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.