A Historical Sketch of the Congregational Churches in Massachusetts: From 1620 to 1858Congregational board of publication, 1858 - 344 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 295 - rejoice, even though for a season they have been in heaviness through manifold temptations, that the trial of their faith, being much more precious than the gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, will be " found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ;" and well may their enemies tremble,
Seite 62 - And I will sow them among the people; and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children and turn again. Persecution begins to be high here; the bishops' courts are up as high as ever. But we have the
Seite 16 - be capable of admission into the college. " 2. Let every student be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider well the main end of his life and studies is, to know God and Jesus Christ, which is eternal life (John 17:3); and therefore to lay Christ in the bottom, as the only foundation of all
Seite ii - covenant of the Lord) into a church estate, in the fellowship of the Gospel, to walk in all his ways, made known or to be made known unto them, according to their best endeavors, whatsoever it should cost them.
Seite 44 - of Higginson at Salem, as he had also been his " companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ," was called away August 2, 1634. Rev. John Harvard, the
Seite ii - the evil of these things, in these parts, and whose hearts the Lord had touched with heavenly zeal for his truth, they shook off this yoke of anti-Christian bondage, and, as the Lord's free people, joined themselves (by covenant of the Lord) into a church estate, in the fellowship of the Gospel, to
Seite 60 - Take counsel, execute judgment, make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday ; hide the outcasts, bewray not him that wandereth. Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert
Seite 306 - towns, parishes, precincts, and other bodies politic, or religious societies, shall, at all times, have the exclusive right of electing their public teachers, and of contracting with them for their support and maintenance.' That this language was intended by the convention who framed the constitution, and by the people who adopted it, to deprive the churches of the right of election, is to us
Seite 208 - the happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend upon piety, religion, and morality, and that these cannot be generally diffused