 | Samuel Peters - Connecticut - 1829 - 440 pages
...III. " That all those who had desired to be received as free planters, had settled in thejilantation, with a purpose, resolution and desire, that they might...proceeded to represent unto them what men they must choose according to thedivine word, and that they might most effectually secure to them and their posterity... | |
 | John Warner Barber - History - 1836 - 598 pages
...GOD. In answer hereunto they expressed by holding up their hands twice, as before. That they helde themselves bound to establish such civil order as might best conduce to the ends aforesaid. Then Mr. Davenport declared unto them by the scriptures what kind of persons might... | |
 | Edward Rodolphus Lambert - Branford (Conn. : Town) - 1838 - 270 pages
...to GOD. In answer hereunto they expressed by holding up their hands twice as before. That they helde themselves bound to establish such civil order as might best conduce to the ends aforesaid. Then Mr. Davenpon declared unto them by the scriptures what kind of persons might best... | |
 | Leonard Bacon - Connecticut - 1839 - 430 pages
...according to Christ, so soon as God should fit them thereunto." They unanimously voted that they " felt themselves bound to establish such civil order as...conduce to the securing of the purity and peace of the ordinances to themselves and their posterity according to God." " Then," as the record informs us,... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1839 - 506 pages
...Davenport, it was solemnly resolved, that the Scriptures are the perfect rule of a commonwealth; that the purity and peace of the ordinance to themselves and their posterity, were the great end of civil order; and that church members only should be free burgesses. A committee... | |
 | Leonard Bacon - Connecticut - 1839 - 426 pages
...not, or could not, enter at the door of church-fellowship. " They held themselves bound," they said, " to establish such civil order as might best conduce to the securing the purity and peace of the ordinances to themselves and their posterity." Was this fanatical ? Was... | |
 | Leonard Bacon - New England - 1839 - 60 pages
...not, or could not, enter at the door of church fellowship. " They held themselves bound," they said, " to establish such civil order as might best conduce to the securing the purity and peace of the ordinances to themselves and their posterity." Was this fanatical ? Was... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - Connecticut - 1840 - 464 pages
...who desired to become free planters had settled there with a wish to be church members, and felt " bound to establish such civil order as might best...to themselves and their posterity according to God ;" that only church members should be free burgesses and choose magistrates ; and that twelve men should... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1841 - 368 pages
...Davenport, it was solemnly resolved, that the Scriptures are the perfect rule of a commonwealth; that the purity and peace of the ordinance to themselves and their posterity, were the great end of civil order ; and that church members only should be free burgesses. A committee... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1844 - 514 pages
...Davenport, it was solemnly resolved, that the Scriptures are the perfect rule of a commonwealth ; that the purity and peace of the ordinance to themselves and their posterity, were the great end of civil order ; and that church members only should be free burgesses. A committee... | |
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... they held themselves bound to establish such civil order as might best conduce to the securing of the purity and peace of the ordinance to themselves and their posterity according to God... 
