The Puritan Commonwealth: An Historical Review of the Puritan Government in Massachusetts in Its Civil and Ecclesiastical Relations from Its Rise to the Abrogation of the First Charter. Together with Some General Reflections on the English Colonial Policy, and on the Character of Puritanism |
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Page 404 - ... ever acknowledging that such hope and part as we have obtained in the common salvation, we have received in her bosom, and sucked it from her breasts. We leave it not, therefore, as loathing that milk wherewith we were nourished there ; but blessing God for the parentage and education ; as members of the same body shall always rejoice in her good...
Page 379 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
Page 238 - For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our King; he will save us.
Page 65 - Hag. ii, 4, etc., out of which he laid down the nature or strength (as he termed it) of the magistracy, ministry, and people, viz., — the strength of the magistracy to be their authority ; of the people, their liberty ; and of the ministry, their purity...
Page 404 - ... we desire you would be pleased to take notice of the principals and body of our Company, as those who esteem it our honor to call the Church of England, from whence we rise, our dear mother; and cannot part from our native Country, where she specially resideth, without much sadness of heart and many tears in our eyes, ever acknowledging that such hope and part as we have obtained in the common salvation .we have received in her bosom, and sucked it from her breasts.
Page 406 - God shall enable us, to give him no rest on your behalf, wishing our heads and hearts may be fountains of tears for your everlasting welfare, when we shall be in our poor cottages in the wilderness...
Page 27 - ... win and incite the natives of [the] country to the knowledge and obedience of the only true God and Saviour of mankind, and the Christian faith, which in our royal intention, and the adventurers' free profession, is the principal end of this plantation.
Page 404 - For which end we are bold to have recourse unto you, as those whom God hath placed nearest his throne of Mercy; which, as it affords you the more opportunity, so it imposeth the greater bond upon you to intercede for his people in all their straights.
Page 86 - ... in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth ; and, it must be confessed, with wonderful success.
Page 168 - was well beloved, and all the faithful embraced her conference and blessed God for her fruitful discourses...