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Page 369
For two things were the good pilgrim fathers especially remarkable : their hatred
of heresy , and their mortal aversion to witches . Wo to the bold man , who ,
during the good old days of Puritanism in New England dared to think for himself
in ...
For two things were the good pilgrim fathers especially remarkable : their hatred
of heresy , and their mortal aversion to witches . Wo to the bold man , who ,
during the good old days of Puritanism in New England dared to think for himself
in ...
Page 376
We can scarcely even guess , why it was that the witches took so remarkable a
fancy to the early Yankees . Whether it was that there was some secret
congeniality of feeling between the two , or that the evil one envied , and sought
to mar , by ...
We can scarcely even guess , why it was that the witches took so remarkable a
fancy to the early Yankees . Whether it was that there was some secret
congeniality of feeling between the two , or that the evil one envied , and sought
to mar , by ...
Page 407
... he will ascertain that this was not a trait of character peculiar to St. Francis , but
that all the most fervent and eminent saints of God , from St. John the Evangelist
down to those of our own day , were remarkable for this same tenderly reverent ...
... he will ascertain that this was not a trait of character peculiar to St. Francis , but
that all the most fervent and eminent saints of God , from St. John the Evangelist
down to those of our own day , were remarkable for this same tenderly reverent ...
Page 412
To meet the objection , Dr. Wiseman alleged the remarkable passage from the
Old Testament , in which the following words occur : “ And all the congregation
blessed the Lord God of their fathers , and bowed down their heads and
worshiped ...
To meet the objection , Dr. Wiseman alleged the remarkable passage from the
Old Testament , in which the following words occur : “ And all the congregation
blessed the Lord God of their fathers , and bowed down their heads and
worshiped ...
Page 419
... health need not a physician , but they that are sick . ' ' The Catholic religion
possesses , in a remarkable degree , these distinctive characteristics of primitive
Christianity . All its institutions are eminently healing in their nature and influence
.
... health need not a physician , but they that are sick . ' ' The Catholic religion
possesses , in a remarkable degree , these distinctive characteristics of primitive
Christianity . All its institutions are eminently healing in their nature and influence
.
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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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