Life Notes: Or, Fifty Years' OutlookLee and Shepard, 1888 - 362 pages |
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Page 336 - If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin ; but now they have no cloak for their sin.
Page 132 - But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth, and said, 20 Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.
Page 177 - Nature is but an image or imitation of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; Nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
Page 192 - Ye worship ye know not what ; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews...
Page 17 - ... structure or edifice, to be improved for a market, for the sole use, benefit, and advantage of the town; provided the town of Boston would pass a vote for that purpose, and lay the same under such proper regulations as shall be thought necessary, and constantly support it for the said use...
Page 35 - This his Majesty's grant was startled at by his Majesty's high officers of state, who were to view it in course before the sealing, but fearing the lion's roaring, they couched, against their wills, in obedience to his Majesty's pleasure.
Page 80 - It is therefore in these years, undated by History, that we must place Oliver's clear recognition of Calvinistic Christianity ; what he, with unspeakable joy, would name his Conversion ; his deliverance from the jaws of Eternal Death. Certainly a grand epoch for a man : properly the one epoch ; the turning-point which guides upwards, or guides downwards, him and his activity forevermore.
Page 311 - Island ; and there, in the code of laws for the colony planted by his energy and sagacity, we read for the first time, since Christianity ascended the throne of the Caesars, the declaration, that " conscience should be free, and men should not be punished for worshipping God in the way they were persuaded he required...
Page 18 - Esq., in the name of the Town, to render him their most hearty thanks for so bountiful a gift ; with their prayers that this and other expressions of his bounty and charity may be abundantly recompensed with the divine blessing.
Page 80 - Wilt thou join with the Dragons ; wilt thou join with the Gods ? Of thee too the question is asked ; — whether by a man in Geneva gown, by a man in ' Four surplices at Allhallowtide,' with words very imperfect ; or by no man and no words, but only by the Silences, by the Eternities, by the Life everlasting and the Death everlasting. That the ' Sense of difference between Right and Wrong...