Chronicles of the First Planters of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, 1623-1636, Volume 41; Volume 49 |
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... God's providence had directed them unto that place , and finding great charge and difficulty in removing , they resolved to fix themselves there ; and being assisted by some of their friends in London , 1 having passed over most of the ...
... God's providence had directed them unto that place , and finding great charge and difficulty in removing , they resolved to fix themselves there ; and being assisted by some of their friends in London , 1 having passed over most of the ...
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... God will , ) thou shalt see a larger decla- ration of the first rise and ends of this enterprise , and so clear and full a justification of this design , both in respect of that warrant it hath from God's word , and also in respect of ...
... God will , ) thou shalt see a larger decla- ration of the first rise and ends of this enterprise , and so clear and full a justification of this design , both in respect of that warrant it hath from God's word , and also in respect of ...
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... God's assistance , to per- form truly and sincerely , to the best of my ability and understanding , ) I do and shall refer myself wholly to the Company's discretion , as my true en- deavours and the success thereof , through God's mercy ...
... God's assistance , to per- form truly and sincerely , to the best of my ability and understanding , ) I do and shall refer myself wholly to the Company's discretion , as my true en- deavours and the success thereof , through God's mercy ...
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... God's Promise to his Plantations , " in 1630 , and that it was printed the same year ; but whether it was preached at Boston to his parishion- ers who were then coming over , ( among whom were Dudley and Coddington , ) or at Southampton ...
... God's Promise to his Plantations , " in 1630 , and that it was printed the same year ; but whether it was preached at Boston to his parishion- ers who were then coming over , ( among whom were Dudley and Coddington , ) or at Southampton ...
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... God , might have continued to this day . But God , who out of the boundless ocean of his mercy hath showed pity and ... God's assistance , to send over two ministers , at the least , with the1 ships now intended to be sent thither . But ...
... God , might have continued to this day . But God , who out of the boundless ocean of his mercy hath showed pity and ... God's assistance , to send over two ministers , at the least , with the1 ships now intended to be sent thither . But ...
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Page 551 - After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Page 296 - ... where she specially resideth, without much sadness of heart, and many tears in our eyes; ever acknowledging that such hope and part as we have obtained in the common salvation, we have. received in her bosom, and sucked it from her breasts; we leave it not, therefore, as loathing that milk wherewith we were nourished there, but, blessing God for the parentage and education, as members of the same body, shall always rejoice in her good...
Page 67 - Court from time to time to make, ordain, and establish, all manner of wholesome and reasonable orders, laws, statutes and ordinances, directions and instructions, either with penalties or without, so as the same be not repugnant or contrary to this Constitution, as they shall judge to be for the good and welfare of this Commonwealth, and for the government and ordering thereof and of the subjects of the same...
Page 34 - Baptist, his harbinger; or, if he was ever there, had forgot his first lessons, to offer violence to no man, and to part with the cloak rather than needlessly contend for the coat, though taken away without order. A little chimney is soon fired; so was the Plymouth captain, a man of very little stature [ie short], yet of a very hot and angry temper.
Page 255 - Lincolnshire and the fens ; and they are nothing but gnats, which, except they be smoked out of their houses, are troublesome in the night season. Secondly, in the winter season, for two months' space, the earth is commonly covered with snow, which is accompanied with sharp biting frosts, something more sharp than is in Old England, and therefore are forced to make great fires.
Page 288 - Prayer and ceremonies, and had suffered much for their non-conformity in their native land ; and therefore being in a place where they might have their liberty, they neither could nor would use them, because they judged the imposition of these things to be sinful corruptions in the worship of God.
Page 28 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...
Page 296 - ... we desire you would be pleased to take notice of the principals and body of our company, as those who esteem it our honor to call the Church of England, from whence we rise, our dear mother ; and cannot part from our native country, where she specially resideth, without much sadness of heart, and many tears in our eyes...
Page 232 - By noon we were within three leagues of Cape Ann ; and as we sailed along the coasts, we saw every hill and dale and every island full of gay woods and high trees. The nearer we came to the shore, the more flowers in abundance, sometimes scattered abroad, sometimes joined in sheets nine or ten yards long, which we supposed to be brought from the low meadows by the tide. Now...
Page 30 - Some of the discreeter sort, to avoid what they found themselves subject unto, made use of their friends to procure from the Council for the affairs of New England to settle a colony within their limits...