The Founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony: A Careful Research of the Earliest Records of Many of the Foremost Settlers of the New England ColonyPress of the Sun printing Company, 1897 - 372 pages |
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Page 240 - So fades a summer cloud away, So sinks the gale when storms are o'er, So gently shuts the eye of day, So dies a wave along the shore.
Page 80 - God, profess and protest to walk as followeth through the power and grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. •' We avouch the Lord to be our God, and ourselves to be his people, in the truth and simplicity of our spirits. " We give ourselves to the Lord Jesus Christ, and the word of his grace, for the teaching, ruling, and sanctifying of us in matters of worship and conversation...
Page 261 - ... make this, my last will and testament, in manner and form following : that is to say, First and principally, I commend my soul to Almighty God, my Creator, assuredly believing that I shall receive full pardon, and...
Page 220 - An act for the impartial administration of justice, in the cases of persons questioned for any act done by them in the execution of the law, or for the suppression of riots and tumults, in the province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England...
Page 2 - The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute.
Page 119 - Forgive, blest shade, the tributary tear, That mourns thy exit from a world like this ; Forgive the wish that would have kept thee here, And stayed thy progress to the seats of bliss • No more confined to grov'ling scenes of night, No more a tenant pent in mortal clay, Now should we rather hail thy glorious flight, And trace thy journey to the realms of day.
Page 188 - Lieutenant and you are your self to observe and follow such Orders and Instructions, as you shall from time to time receive from Me or...
Page 182 - ... we confess that we ourselves were not capable to understand, nor able to withstand, the mysterious delusions of the powers of darkness, and prince of the air, but were, for want of knowledge in ourselves, and better information from others, prevailed with to take up with such evidence against the accused, as, on further consideration, and better information, we justly fear was insufficient for the touching the lives of any (Deut.
Page 80 - We covenant with our Lord, and one with another ; and we do bind ourselves in the presence of God, to walk together in all his ways, according as he is pleased to reveal himself unto us in His blessed Word. of Truth...
Page 261 - I owe in right or Conscience to any Manner of Person or Persons whatsoever Shall be well and truly contented and paid, or ordained to be paid within convenient Time after my decease by my Executors hereafter named.