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Page 371
... certainly assign the precedency to Massachusetts . Whether it was , that there
were more heretics and witches in the latter colony , or that the hardy pioneers of
the former had become more civilized , and their hearts softer in consequence of
...
... certainly assign the precedency to Massachusetts . Whether it was , that there
were more heretics and witches in the latter colony , or that the hardy pioneers of
the former had become more civilized , and their hearts softer in consequence of
...
Page 374
... with long visages and sanctimonious looks , but with cold and iron hearts
steeled against humanity ; who could pray as long prayers at the corners of the
streets as the ancient Pharisees , or the more modern Praise - God - Bare -
Bones of ...
... with long visages and sanctimonious looks , but with cold and iron hearts
steeled against humanity ; who could pray as long prayers at the corners of the
streets as the ancient Pharisees , or the more modern Praise - God - Bare -
Bones of ...
Page 388
... to the very heavens of God , and either seek to place themselves on a level
with the Eternal himself , or to bring down the Eternal to their own abject position .
With Lucifer they say , in the pride of their hearts : " I will ascend into heaven , and
I ...
... to the very heavens of God , and either seek to place themselves on a level
with the Eternal himself , or to bring down the Eternal to their own abject position .
With Lucifer they say , in the pride of their hearts : " I will ascend into heaven , and
I ...
Page 394
... and our sciences - all worship in the temple of mammon . The temple of God is
open during only one day in the week , that of mammon is open during six .
Everything smacks of gold . The fever of avarice is consuming the very heart ' s
blood ...
... and our sciences - all worship in the temple of mammon . The temple of God is
open during only one day in the week , that of mammon is open during six .
Everything smacks of gold . The fever of avarice is consuming the very heart ' s
blood ...
Page 395
And on the great day of the Lord , when the secrets of men shall be revealed by
the Searcher of hearts , thou shalt be ... With all these mischievous maxims
extensively prevalent , and with the canker of sectarianism preying on its very
heart ...
And on the great day of the Lord , when the secrets of men shall be revealed by
the Searcher of hearts , thou shalt be ... With all these mischievous maxims
extensively prevalent , and with the canker of sectarianism preying on its very
heart ...
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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.
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| Title | Miscellanea: Comprising Reviews, Lectures, and Essays, on Historical, Theological, and Miscellaneous Subjects, Volume 2 Miscellanea: Comprising Reviews, Lectures, and Essays, on Historical, Theological, and Miscellaneous Subjects, Martin John Spalding |
| Author | Martin John Spalding |
| Publisher | J. Murphy Company, 1894 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 9 Dec 2006 |
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