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Page 369
Wo to the bold man , who , during the good old days of Puritanism in New
England dared to think for himself in matters of religion ; if , while enjoying this
privilege , he unfortunately differed in opinion from the majority then wielding
power .
Wo to the bold man , who , during the good old days of Puritanism in New
England dared to think for himself in matters of religion ; if , while enjoying this
privilege , he unfortunately differed in opinion from the majority then wielding
power .
Page 371
The following are the weighty charges preferred against him in the General Court
, held July 8th , 1635 : That he held these “ dangerous opinions : 1. That the
magistrate ought not to punish the breach of the first table , otherwise than in
such ...
The following are the weighty charges preferred against him in the General Court
, held July 8th , 1635 : That he held these “ dangerous opinions : 1. That the
magistrate ought not to punish the breach of the first table , otherwise than in
such ...
Page 372
... as a curious specimen of colonial jurisprudence : “ Whereas Mr. Roger
Williams , one of the elders of the church of Salem , hath broached and divulged
divers new and dangerous opinions against the authority of magistrates , as also
written ...
... as a curious specimen of colonial jurisprudence : “ Whereas Mr. Roger
Williams , one of the elders of the church of Salem , hath broached and divulged
divers new and dangerous opinions against the authority of magistrates , as also
written ...
Page 392
The hierarchy and the papal supremacy fetter individual freedom of opinion ,
therefore they must be abolished . Catholicity imposes too many painful restraints
on human nature ; it is antiquated , and no longer adapted to the growing wants ...
The hierarchy and the papal supremacy fetter individual freedom of opinion ,
therefore they must be abolished . Catholicity imposes too many painful restraints
on human nature ; it is antiquated , and no longer adapted to the growing wants ...
Page 393
... till that principle be discarded , infidelity will and must continue to reap an
abundant harvest , wherever Protestantism is prevalent . It has ever been so ; it
will ever be so ; in the very nature of things it must be so . The religious opinions
of our ...
... till that principle be discarded , infidelity will and must continue to reap an
abundant harvest , wherever Protestantism is prevalent . It has ever been so ; it
will ever be so ; in the very nature of things it must be so . The religious opinions
of our ...
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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.