History of North Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts: From Its First Settlement to the Present Time, with Family Registers

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The author, 1866 - Brockton (Mass.) - 696 pages
North Bridgewater is now an extinct town. The name changed to Brockton in 1874.
 

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Page 48 - But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets...
Page 429 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away.
Page 78 - Fear not; for behold, I bring you glad tidings of great joy which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord...
Page 138 - I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed to Him against that day.
Page 63 - WE bid thee welcome in the name Of Jesus, our exalted Head: Come as a Servant: so He came; And we receive thee in His stead. 2 Come as a Shepherd: guard and keep This fold from hell and earth and sin ; Nourish the lambs, and feed the sheep, The wounded heal, the lost bring in.
Page 142 - Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years ; and was gathered to his people.
Page 130 - Youth, for the purpose of training and teaching such persons, with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, restrictions, and liabilities, set forth in the thirty-eighth and fortyfourth chapters of the Revised Statutes.
Page 159 - The honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him by Dartmouth College in 1824.
Page 78 - All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD : and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. 28 For the kingdom is the LORD'S : and he is the governor among the nations.
Page 27 - Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.

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