A Historical and Biographical Genealogy of the Cushmans: The Descendants of Robert Cushman, the Puritan, from the Year 1617 to 1855 |
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... heart of every descendant of our Puritan ancestor . I feel it my duty to acknowledge my obligations to many persons who have cheerfully and perseveringly aided me in my genealogical labors . I should be glad to name them all if I had ...
... heart of every descendant of our Puritan ancestor . I feel it my duty to acknowledge my obligations to many persons who have cheerfully and perseveringly aided me in my genealogical labors . I should be glad to name them all if I had ...
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... hearts and hands in a common organization for the purpose of religious worship . They manfully resolved , " whatever it should cost them , to enjoy liberty of conscience . " Two churches were therefore formed in the north - eastern part ...
... hearts and hands in a common organization for the purpose of religious worship . They manfully resolved , " whatever it should cost them , to enjoy liberty of conscience . " Two churches were therefore formed in the north - eastern part ...
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... hearts therein . And it is not with us as with other men , whom small things can discourage , or small discontentments cause to wish themselves home again . " Persevering in this matter , therefore , the Leyden Church , after a ...
... hearts therein . And it is not with us as with other men , whom small things can discourage , or small discontentments cause to wish themselves home again . " Persevering in this matter , therefore , the Leyden Church , after a ...
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... heart , & c . sit still and look on , and will not hazard a drachm of health , nor a day of pleasure , nor an hour of rest to further the knowledge of the sons of Adam in that new world , where a drop of the knowledge of Christ is most ...
... heart , & c . sit still and look on , and will not hazard a drachm of health , nor a day of pleasure , nor an hour of rest to further the knowledge of the sons of Adam in that new world , where a drop of the knowledge of Christ is most ...
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... hearts , cannot but produce such effects more and more ; so as every indifferent minded man should be ready to say with father Abraham , " Take thou the right hand , and I will take the left : " let us not thus oppress , straiten , and ...
... hearts , cannot but produce such effects more and more ; so as every indifferent minded man should be ready to say with father Abraham , " Take thou the right hand , and I will take the left : " let us not thus oppress , straiten , and ...
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A Historical and Biographical Genealogy of the Cushmans: The Descendants of ... Henry Wyles Cushman No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 26 - I charge you before God, and his blessed angels, that you follow me no farther than you have seen me follow the Lord Jesus Christ. If God reveal any thing to you by any other instrument of his, be as ready to receive it, as ever you were to receive any truth by my ministry ; for I am verily persuaded, I am very confident, the Lord has more truth yet to break forth out of his holy word.
Page 18 - Lastly, it is not with us as with other men whom small things can discourage, or small discontentments cause to wish themselves at home again.
Page 129 - ... principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul into the hands of...
Page 228 - How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
Page 120 - Executors, nothing doubting but at the General Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God, and as touching such worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this life, I give, devise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form, viz : Imprimis.
Page 83 - And never may they rest unsung, While liberty can find a tongue. Twine, Gratitude, a wreath for them, More deathless than the diadem, Who to life's noblest end, Gave up life's noblest powers, And bade the legacy descend, Down, down to us and ours.
Page 520 - Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again; The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies among his worshippers.
Page 26 - God, and seeke of him a right way for us, and for our children, and for all our substance.
Page 152 - States, or any other your Superior Officer, according to the rules and discipline of war, in pursuance of the trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue in force until revoked by this or a future Congress. Dated the First day of January 1777. By order of the Congress, JOHN HANCOCK, President.
Page 155 - ... we, the freemen, freeholders, and inhabitants, of the city and county of New York being greatly alarmed at the avowed design of the Ministry to raise a revenue in America; and shocked by the bloody Scene now acting in the Massachusetts Bay, do, in the most solemn...
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The Poetics of Colonization: From City to Text in Archaic Greece Carol Dougherty Limited preview - 1993 |