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Page ix
... king to interpret for them the word of God , which they made their only standard , and , under its guide , conformed their ecclesiastical discipline to republican simplicity . Separate congregations were formed , and secession from the ...
... king to interpret for them the word of God , which they made their only standard , and , under its guide , conformed their ecclesiastical discipline to republican simplicity . Separate congregations were formed , and secession from the ...
Page x
... King James hopes were indulged of a more lenient administration , but only to be disappointed . Petitions for the redress of abuses were denied , and religious assemblies and free dis- cussion prohibited . But such pressure only ...
... King James hopes were indulged of a more lenient administration , but only to be disappointed . Petitions for the redress of abuses were denied , and religious assemblies and free dis- cussion prohibited . But such pressure only ...
Page xvi
... kings . Bradford and Winthrop were in all respects quite as praiseworthy persons as Theseus and Numa . " Plymouth is the oldest of the New England colonies , and to its early success may be traced the origin of all the others . It is ...
... kings . Bradford and Winthrop were in all respects quite as praiseworthy persons as Theseus and Numa . " Plymouth is the oldest of the New England colonies , and to its early success may be traced the origin of all the others . It is ...
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... King Mas- sasoit ; as also our message , the answer and entertainment we had of him II . Winslow's second journey to Pakanokit , to visit Massasoit in his sickness 357 · 359-367 367-375 APPENDIX . . 379-399 The labors of the Pilgrims ...
... King Mas- sasoit ; as also our message , the answer and entertainment we had of him II . Winslow's second journey to Pakanokit , to visit Massasoit in his sickness 357 · 359-367 367-375 APPENDIX . . 379-399 The labors of the Pilgrims ...
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... King James of famous memory , * all things were got ready and provided , a small ship was bought and fitted out in Holland , of about sixty tons , called the Speedwell , as to serve to transport some of them over , so also to stay in ...
... King James of famous memory , * all things were got ready and provided , a small ship was bought and fitted out in Holland , of about sixty tons , called the Speedwell , as to serve to transport some of them over , so also to stay in ...
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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.