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... faith , and honour of our king & countrie , a voyage to plant ye first colo- nie in ye northern parts of Virginia , doe by these presents , solemnly & mutualy , in ye presence of God and one another , covenant & combine ourselves ...
... faith , and honour of our king & countrie , a voyage to plant ye first colo- nie in ye northern parts of Virginia , doe by these presents , solemnly & mutualy , in ye presence of God and one another , covenant & combine ourselves ...
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... numbered , and five parts of yee doe not understand so much in the com- mandements , Lord's prayer , and articles of the faith , that it ... . 1 Sandys ' Europe Speculum , p . 76 . were a greate shame for a godly man to have 7.
... numbered , and five parts of yee doe not understand so much in the com- mandements , Lord's prayer , and articles of the faith , that it ... . 1 Sandys ' Europe Speculum , p . 76 . were a greate shame for a godly man to have 7.
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... Faith , " with the old hierarchal argument of sword and fagot , burning the Eng- lish New Testament , - that Pandora's box to absolutism , caste , and privilege , whether in church or state , - and strangling its 1 Dryden's Religio ...
... Faith , " with the old hierarchal argument of sword and fagot , burning the Eng- lish New Testament , - that Pandora's box to absolutism , caste , and privilege , whether in church or state , - and strangling its 1 Dryden's Religio ...
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... faith ? " the answer came in the ever - varying acts of Parliament , dogmas , canons , and punctilios under the Tudors or the Stuarts , succes- sively enforced under pains and penalties . Such vibrations might not disturb a Vicar of ...
... faith ? " the answer came in the ever - varying acts of Parliament , dogmas , canons , and punctilios under the Tudors or the Stuarts , succes- sively enforced under pains and penalties . Such vibrations might not disturb a Vicar of ...
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... faith and integrity of life . . . . Where we would , we could not there obtain it . . . . Before , we have reasoned together in hope to obtain a church . . . free from all dregs of superstitious ceremonies , . . . we had fully ...
... faith and integrity of life . . . . Where we would , we could not there obtain it . . . . Before , we have reasoned together in hope to obtain a church . . . free from all dregs of superstitious ceremonies , . . . we had fully ...
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Page 8 - Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm, in erecting a grammar-school : and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used ; and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.
Page 45 - ... there's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will.
Page 12 - The most high and sacred Order of Kings is of Divine Right, being the ordinance of God himself, founded in the prime laws of nature, and clearly established by express texts both of the Old and New Testaments.
Page 31 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam...
Page 99 - Dare ye for this adjure the civil sword To force our consciences that Christ set free, And ride us with a Classic Hierarchy, Taught ye by mere AS and...
Page 51 - They left their native land in search of freedom, and found it in a desert. Divided as they are into a thousand forms of policy and religion, there is one point in which they all agree : they equally detest the pageantry of a king, and the supercilious hypocrisy of a bishop.
Page 94 - Commonwealth, whether corporate or unincorporate, at any meeting legally warned and holden for that purpose, shall ever have the right to elect their pastors or religious teachers, to contract with them for their support, to raise money for erecting and repairing houses for Public Worship, for the maintenance of religious instruction, and for the payment of necessary expenses : And all persons belonging to any...
Page 13 - If two or three thousand Brownists meet at the sea, at whose charge shall they be transported, or whither will you send them ? I am sorry for it, I am afraid there is near twenty thousand of them in England; and when they be gone, who shall maintain their wives and children ?
Page 87 - Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves, whose Gospel is their maw.
Page 26 - ... we are altogether destitute, do in the name of Christ and in the sight of God combine ourselves together to erect and set up among us such government as shall be, to our best discerning, agreeable to the will of God...