 | Vermont Historical Society - 1909 - 670 pages
...that has throughout our history made the words of William Stoughton, spoken in 1688, still ring true: "God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain into the wilderness." And now he turned his back upon the certainty of an honorable old age spent in such comfort as the... | |
 | James Savage - 1860 - 534 pages
...Stoughton, in his Election sermon, 1668, express the sentiment with no less happiness than brevity : " GOD SIFTED A WHOLE NATION THAT HE MIGHT SEND CHOICE GRAIN INTO THE WILDERNESS." By an instinct of our nature, we all love to learn the places of our birth, and the chief circumstances... | |
 | 1862 - 110 pages
...their true sincerity of purpose, sincerely as we believe, in the language of William Stoughton, that " God sifted a whole nation, that he might send choice grain into the wilderness," looking back, with silent admiration at their desperate conflicts with temporal and spiritual temptations,... | |
 | William Henry Whitmore - 1864 - 52 pages
...Stoughton, in his Election sermon, 1688, express the sentiment with no less happiness than brevity ; * GOD SIFTED A WHOLE NATION THAT HE MIGHT SEND CHOICE GRAIN INTO THE WILDERNESS V It seems almost superfluous to add any corroboration of these opinions ; yet the case may be strengthened... | |
 | William Henry WHITMORE - 1864 - 176 pages
...Stoughton, in his Election sermon, 1688, express the sentiment with no less happiness than brevity ; ' GOD SIFTED A WHOLE NATION THAT HE MIGHT SEND CHOICE GRAIN INTO THE WILDERNESS1." It seems almost superfluous to add any corroboration of these opinions ; yet the case... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1869 - 522 pages
...it was at last violated. The Pilgrims belonged to that class of men of whom it has been said, that " God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain into the wilderness ; " and their bright example will give new courage to the oppressed everywhere, and inspire in them... | |
 | Jesse Henry Jones - 1871 - 392 pages
...to religious freedom. They were also the best blood of all England. One of the fathers truly said, " God sifted a whole nation, that He might send choice grain into the wilderness." Their common customs show how deeply these people were dyed with the Christian religion. To mention... | |
 | 1875 - 556 pages
...were the best of their stock, and as William S to ugh to n said in his election sermon of 1668 : * God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain into the wilderness.* " In every way equal in authorship to the volume above noticed is the remarkable work, also by Col.... | |
 | William Dodge Herrick - 1878 - 612 pages
...ministers were men of no common powers, nor learning. Says Stonghton, in his Election Sermon, 1668 : "God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain, into this wilderness. They were men of great renown, in the nation from which the Laudian persecution exiled... | |
 | 1883 - 998 pages
...It was the simple truth that was spoken by William Stoughton when he said, in his election sermon in 1688 : ' ' God sifted a whole nation that He might send choice grain into the wilderness." The population of New England was as homogeneous in blood as it was in social condition. The Puritan... | |
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It was the simple truth that was spoken by William Stoughton when he said, in his election sermon of 1688 : " God sifted a whole nation, that He might send choice grain into the wilderness. 
