The Early History of New England: Illustrated by Numerous Interesting Incidents |
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... miles along a creek , passing over hills and valleys , the snow being half a foot deep . Having become weary , they encamped for the night under a cluster of pine - trees . They had eaten little during the day ; but a kind Providence ...
... miles along a creek , passing over hills and valleys , the snow being half a foot deep . Having become weary , they encamped for the night under a cluster of pine - trees . They had eaten little during the day ; but a kind Providence ...
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... miles distant . The next morning they divided their company , a part travelling along the shore , while the rest coasted along the shoals . About nine or ten o'clock , they lost sight of the shallop . They roved about , making ...
... miles distant . The next morning they divided their company , a part travelling along the shore , while the rest coasted along the shoals . About nine or ten o'clock , they lost sight of the shallop . They roved about , making ...
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... miles , were seen great smokes arising from the fires of the In- dians . " Though most of the company were on board the ship on the Lord's day , December 31st , yet some of them kept the Sabbath for the first time in their new house ...
... miles , were seen great smokes arising from the fires of the In- dians . " Though most of the company were on board the ship on the Lord's day , December 31st , yet some of them kept the Sabbath for the first time in their new house ...
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... miles above Charlestown , and most of them engaged to build houses there another year . The weather held tolerable until the 24th of December ; but the cold then came on with vio- lence . Such a Christmas eve they had never seen before ...
... miles above Charlestown , and most of them engaged to build houses there another year . The weather held tolerable until the 24th of December ; but the cold then came on with vio- lence . Such a Christmas eve they had never seen before ...
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... miles distant , whereas it was nearly fifty . By the way , they met with two Indian squaws , who , re- turning home , told their husbands that they had met two Englishmen . Concluding that they had been shipwrecked , the Indians went ...
... miles distant , whereas it was nearly fifty . By the way , they met with two Indian squaws , who , re- turning home , told their husbands that they had met two Englishmen . Concluding that they had been shipwrecked , the Indians went ...
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Page 124 - For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do. And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
Page 37 - The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me ; He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God: and He shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Page 137 - He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth: he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder ; he burneth the chariot in the fire. Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
Page 119 - Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Page 264 - And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest ; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
Page 139 - I am feeble and sore broken : I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
Page 280 - Having undertaken, for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith and honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia...
Page 7 - His truth, they shook off this yoke of antichristian bondage, and as the Lord's free people joined themselves (by a 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 endeavours, whatsoever it should cost them, the Lord assisting them.8 And that it cost them something this ensuing history will declare.
Page 187 - 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 to them from the face of the spoiler : for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
Page 154 - From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove : Mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed ; undertake for me.