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... holy habitation , and planted them in the mountain of his inheritance , ( Exod . xv . 13 , ) in respect of precious gospel enjoyments . So that we may not only look back to former experiences of God's goodness to 1 *
... holy habitation , and planted them in the mountain of his inheritance , ( Exod . xv . 13 , ) in respect of precious gospel enjoyments . So that we may not only look back to former experiences of God's goodness to 1 *
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... Holy Writ is sometimes called heaven ; yet there is always , in their most perfect state here in this lower world , very much wanting as to absolute and perfect happiness , * Gov. Bradford's History takes no notice of the year of this ...
... Holy Writ is sometimes called heaven ; yet there is always , in their most perfect state here in this lower world , very much wanting as to absolute and perfect happiness , * Gov. Bradford's History takes no notice of the year of this ...
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... holy and just works . A further thing there is carefully to be provided for , namely , that with your common em- ployments , you join common affections truly bent upon the general good , avoiding , as a deadly plague of your both com ...
... holy and just works . A further thing there is carefully to be provided for , namely , that with your common em- ployments , you join common affections truly bent upon the general good , avoiding , as a deadly plague of your both com ...
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... holy name have all the praise . Having thus discovered this place , it was controverted amongst them what to do , touching their abode and settling there . Some thought it best for many reasons to abide there . 1st . Because of the ...
... holy name have all the praise . Having thus discovered this place , it was controverted amongst them what to do , touching their abode and settling there . Some thought it best for many reasons to abide there . 1st . Because of the ...
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... holy name have the praise for ever . Being now well recovered in respect of health ( as hath been said ) , they began to fit up their buildings against winter , and received in their first harvest , and had great plenty of fowl and fish ...
... holy name have the praise for ever . Being now well recovered in respect of health ( as hath been said ) , they began to fit up their buildings against winter , and received in their first harvest , and had great plenty of fowl and fish ...
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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 25 - God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid, and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony ; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
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 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 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 405 - 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 405 - Lord had appointed it or not; he charged us, before God and his blessed angels, to follow him no further than he followed Christ; and if God should reveal anything to us by any other Instrument of his, to be as ready to receive it, as ever we were to receive any truth by his Ministry. For he was very confident that the Lord had more truth and light yet to break forth out of his holy word.
Page 462 - We whose names are here underwritten, being by his most wise and good providence brought together into this part of America, in the Bay of Massachusetts, and desirous to unite into one congregation or church, under the Lord Jesus Christ, our Head, in such sort as becometh all those whom he hath redeemed, and sanctified to himself, do hereby solemnly and religiously, as in his most holy presence, promise and bind ourselves to walk in all our ways according to the rule of the gospel, and in all sincere...
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 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.