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Page 162 - Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the Ending, the First and the Last...
Page 13 - There goes many a ship to sea, with many hundred souls in one ship, whose weal and woe is common, and is a true picture of a commonwealth or a human combination or society. It hath fallen out sometimes that both Papists and Protestants, Jews and Turks, may be embarked in one ship ; upon which supposal I affirm, that all the liberty of conscience that ever I pleaded for, turns upon these two hinges — that none of the Papists, Protestants, Jews, or Turks, be forced to come to the ship's prayers or...
Page 15 - Bloody Tenent Yet More Bloody by Mr. Cotton's Endeavor to Wash It White in the Blood of the Lamb (1652).
Page 13 - ... preservation; if any shall mutiny and rise up against their commanders and officers; if any should preach or write, that there ought to be no commanders nor officers, because all are equal in...
Page 5 - SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly, and by the authority thereof it is enacted, That the...
Page 13 - ... the ship, concerning their common peace or preservation ; if any shall mutiny, and rise up against their commanders and officers ; if any should preach or write, that there ought to be no commanders...
Page 116 - Wee never heard of this before; and then will relate how they have it from their Fathers, that Kaulanloinrti made one man and woman of a stone, which disliking, he broke them in pieces, and made another man and woman of a Tree, which were the Fountaines of all mankind.
Page 36 - If any stranger come in, they presently give him to eate of what they have; many atime, and at all times of the night (as I have fallen in travell upon their houses) when nothing hath been ready, have themselves and their wives, risen to prepare me some refreshing.
Page 23 - Now because this is the great Inquiry of all men what Indians have been converted? what have the English done in those parts? what hopes of the Indians receiving the Knowledge of Christ! And because to this Question, some put an edge from the boast of the Jesuits in Canada and Maryland, and especially from the wonderfull conversions made by the Spaniards and Portugalls in the West-Indies, besides what I have here written, as also, beside what I have observed in the Chapter of their Religion!
Page 61 - Boast not, proud English, of thy birth and blood, Thy brother Indian is by birth as good; Of one blood God made him and thee and all, As wise, as fair, as strong, as personal.