The life of John Eliot, the apostle of the Indians: including notices of the principal attempts to propagate Christianity in North America, during the seventeenth century [by J. Wilson].

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Page 204 - When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.
Page 258 - Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
Page 66 - The Day-Breaking, if not the SunRising of the Gospel with the Indians in New England, 1647, iv.
Page 131 - And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD ; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Page 198 - And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin...
Page 35 - ... the power of God unto salvation, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
Page 129 - They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick ; but go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice : for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Page 110 - For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our King; he will save us.
Page 131 - And the Lord smelled a sweet savour ; and the Lord said in his heart, " I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake ; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth ; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Page 88 - And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish ; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie : That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

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