The History of the Church of England in the Colonies and Foreign Dependencies of the British Empire, Volume 1

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F. & J. Rivington, 1845 - Blacks - 482 pages
 

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Page 460 - such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and officers, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission
Page 191 - by pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and
Page 398 - works one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration that had been in many ages; in his adversity, I ever prayed that God would give him strength, for greatness he could not want 3
Page 207 - 24 verses, where I read, that they which go downe to the sea in ships, and occupy by the great waters, they see the works of the Lord and his woonders in the deepe, &c. Which words of the Prophet, together with my cousin's discourse (things of high and
Page 375 - Then shall Religion to America flee ; They have their times of Gospel, ev'n as we. My God, thou dost prepare for them a way, By carrying first their gold from them away : For gold and grace did never yet agree ; Religion always sides with poverty.
Page 117 - If all the miseries and troublesome affaires of this sorrowfull voyage should be perfectly and throughly written, there should neede a painfull man with his pen, and as great a time as he had that wrote the lives and deaths of the Martyrs.
Page 94 - A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia : of the commodities there found, and to be raised, as well merchantable as others: Written by Thomas Heriot, seruant to Sir Walter Ralegh, a member of the Colony, and there
Page 265 - saying, ^£' Safely in harbour Is the king's ship ; in the deep nook where once Thou call'dst me up at midnight to fetch dew From the still vex'd Bermoothes, there she's hid

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