 | 1899 - 124 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... | |
 | Cephas Brainerd, Eveline Warner Brainerd - New England - 1901 - 492 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... | |
 | Cephas Brainerd, Eveline Warner Brainerd - New England - 1901 - 494 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... | |
 | Cephas Brainerd, Eveline Warner Brainerd - New England - 1901 - 492 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... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - World History - 1904 - 768 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... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - Charters - 1909 - 698 pages
...words were read unto them. Query IV. ALL the free planters were called upon to express, whether they held themselves bound to establish such civil order...to themselves and their posterity according to GOD? In answer hereunto they expressed by holding up their hands twice as before, that they held themselves... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - Charters - 1909 - 702 pages
...planters were called upon to expr whether they held themselves bound to establish such civil order might best conduce to the securing of the purity and...ordinance to themselves and their posterity according to (iou? In answer hereunto they expressed by holding up their hands twi<4' abefore, that they held themselves... | |
 | Peter George Mode - Religion - 1921 - 772 pages
...answer hereunto they expressed by holding up their hands twice as before, thatt they held them selves bound to establish such civil order as might best conduce to the ends aforesaid. Then Mr. Davenport declared unto them by the scripture whatt kinde ot persons might... | |
 | David W. Hall - History - 2005 - 512 pages
...according to GOD. In answer hereunto they expressed by holding up their hands twice as before, that they held themselves bound to establish such civil order as might best conduce to the ends aforesaid. THEN Mr. Davenport declared unto them, by the scripture, what kind of persons might... | |
 | David A. Weir - History - 2005 - 486 pages
...answ. herevnto they expressed by hold[ing] vp their hands twice as before, thau they held them selues bound to establish such [civil order] as might best conduce to the ends aforesaid. 62 The word “ordinances” has several connotations in both the Bible and the history... | |
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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... 
