Samuel Slade Benton: His Ancestors and DescendantsMerrymount Press, 1901 - 354 pages |
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Samuel Slade Benton; His Ancestors and Descendants Josiah Henry 1843-1917 [From O. Benton No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 253 - Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.
Page 49 - 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...
Page 49 - God for it, therefore calling unto mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament. That is to say, principally...
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Page 18 - And very often great disturbance was giuen in the publick worship of God by her and two other women who had also strange fitts. Once in speciall, on a day of prayer kept on that account, the motion and noise of the afflicted was so terrible, that a godly person fainted under the appearance of it...
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Page 17 - She hath been and is a person esteemed pious, behaving nerselfe with a pleasant mixture of humility and faith under her heavy sufferings, professing (as she did sundry times)- that she knew nothing of those things that were spoken by her, but that her tongue was improued to express what was never in her mind, which was matter of great affliction to her.
Page 7 - Haven colony records, lib. 1, page 71:— A Generall Court held at New Haven the 23rd of October, 1643. Whereas this Plantation att first with generall ande full consent layde their foundations thatt none butt members of aproved Churches should be accounted free Burgesses, nor should any else have any vote in any Election, or power or trust in ordering of Civill affayres, in wch. way we have constantly proceeded hitherto in our whole Court wth.