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Page 373
... or cause to be brought , directly or indirectly , any knowr Quaker or Quakers , or
other blasphemous heretiques into this jurisdiction . every such person shall
forfeit the sum of one hundred pounds to the country and shall by warrant from
any ...
... or cause to be brought , directly or indirectly , any knowr Quaker or Quakers , or
other blasphemous heretiques into this jurisdiction . every such person shall
forfeit the sum of one hundred pounds to the country and shall by warrant from
any ...
Page 375
... or any other such like vagabonds shall come into any towne of this government
, the marshall or constable shall apprehend him or them , and upon examination ,
soe appearing , hee shall whip then : or cause them to be whipt with rodd .
... or any other such like vagabonds shall come into any towne of this government
, the marshall or constable shall apprehend him or them , and upon examination ,
soe appearing , hee shall whip then : or cause them to be whipt with rodd .
Page 379
... these things , his excellency ( Sir William Phips ) first reprieved , and then
pardoned many of them that had been condemned ; and there fell out several
strange things that caused the spirit of the country to run as vehemently on the
acquitting ...
... these things , his excellency ( Sir William Phips ) first reprieved , and then
pardoned many of them that had been condemned ; and there fell out several
strange things that caused the spirit of the country to run as vehemently on the
acquitting ...
Page 384
And it may be , that by a judicious system of cultivation , we may finally succeed
in plucking out the eril weeds altogether , and in causing the goodly plants to
shoot forth their branches , and to yield their abundant fruits , for the healing of
the ...
And it may be , that by a judicious system of cultivation , we may finally succeed
in plucking out the eril weeds altogether , and in causing the goodly plants to
shoot forth their branches , and to yield their abundant fruits , for the healing of
the ...
Page 391
... and never was a truer thing said . Such has been precisely the result of
progressive enlightenment in Germany , and such it will be in this country , so
certainly as similar causes invariably produce similar effects under similar
circumstances .
... and never was a truer thing said . Such has been precisely the result of
progressive enlightenment in Germany , and such it will be in this country , so
certainly as similar causes invariably produce similar effects under similar
circumstances .
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Page 569 - Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
Page 519 - Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 372 - ... it is therefore ordered, that the said Mr. Williams shall depart out of this jurisdiction within six weeks now next ensuing ; which if he neglect to perform, it shall be lawful for the governor and two of the magistrates to send him to some place out of this jurisdiction, not to return any more without license from the court.
Page 519 - ... after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast...
Page 425 - If a brother or sister be naked, and in lack of daily food, and one of you say unto them, Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled ; and yet ye give them not the things needful to the body; what doth it profit? Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself.
Page 488 - Geneva, the seat and centre of Calvinism, the fountain-head from which the pure and living waters of our Scottish Zion flow, the earthly source, the pattern, the Rome of our Presbyterian doctrine and practice, has fallen lower from her own original doctrine and practice than ever Rome fell.
Page 377 - ... dropt sometimes out of the air, before sufficient spectators, into the hands of the afflicted, while the spectres were urging them to subscribe their covenant with death. Moreover, poisons to the standersby wholly...
Page 376 - And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
Page 504 - The school-boy whips his taxed top ; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid...
Page 420 - This is the stone which was rejected by you the builders, which is become the head of the corner ; neither is there salvation in any other. For there is no other name under heaven given to men whereby we must be saved.