Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia, Volume 1J.B Lippincott & Company, 1878 |
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... soon have perished . The author has also wandered , and not a little , nor in vain , amidst old churches or their ruins and the graveyards around them , and the old family seats . The accounts of these , and the inscriptions taken from ...
... soon have perished . The author has also wandered , and not a little , nor in vain , amidst old churches or their ruins and the graveyards around them , and the old family seats . The accounts of these , and the inscriptions taken from ...
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... soon brought to the experience of Melancthon , " That old Adam was too strong for young Melancthon . " These books were , I believe , republished in America about this time , together with some of the writings of Miss Hannah More , and ...
... soon brought to the experience of Melancthon , " That old Adam was too strong for young Melancthon . " These books were , I believe , republished in America about this time , together with some of the writings of Miss Hannah More , and ...
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... scarce an whom my father and many others of the family have been called . exception , their descendants have all adhered to the Episcopal Church . opinion expressed by one or more and soon put in 30 OLD CHURCHES , MINISTERS , AND.
... scarce an whom my father and many others of the family have been called . exception , their descendants have all adhered to the Episcopal Church . opinion expressed by one or more and soon put in 30 OLD CHURCHES , MINISTERS , AND.
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William Meade. opinion expressed by one or more and soon put in circulation , that there was something unsound in mind or eccentric in character , at any rate a want of good common sense , or I could not make such a mistake as to attach ...
William Meade. opinion expressed by one or more and soon put in circulation , that there was something unsound in mind or eccentric in character , at any rate a want of good common sense , or I could not make such a mistake as to attach ...
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William Meade. men . I attended no more of them , and they were soon relin- quished . That a congregation having had three such ministers in succession should be desirous to try a young Virginian was not very wonderful . I should be ...
William Meade. men . I attended no more of them , and they were soon relin- quished . That a congregation having had three such ministers in succession should be desirous to try a young Virginian was not very wonderful . I should be ...
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Page 63 - WE, greatly commending, and graciously accepting of, their Desires for the Furtherance of so noble a Work, which may, by the Providence of Almighty God, hereafter tend to the Glory of his Divine Majesty, in propagating of Christian Religion to such People, as yet live in Darkness and miserable Ignorance of the true Knowledge and Worship of God...
Page 77 - Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shall find it after many days.
Page 307 - I, AB, do declare, That I do believe that there is not any transubstantiation in the sacrament of the Lord's supper, or in the elements of bread and wine, at or after the consecration thereof by any person whatsoever.
Page 66 - In foul weather we shifted into an old rotten tent; for we had few better, and this came by the way of adventure for new. This was our Church, till we built a homely thing like a barn...
Page 337 - Jamestown, with her wild train, she as freely frequented as her father's habitation; and, during the time of two or three years, she, next, under God, was still the instrument to preserve this colony from death, famine, and utter confusion, which if in those times had once been dissolved, Virginia might have lain as it was at our first arrival to this day.
Page 127 - ... for the good of this plantation, for the honour of our countrie, for the glory of God, for my owne salvation, and for the converting to the true knowledge of God and Jesus Christ, an unbeleeving creature, namely Pokahuntas.
Page 70 - Quier, in a green velvet chair, with a cloath, with a velvet cushion spread on a table before him on which he kneeleth, and on each side sit the Counsel, Captaines and officers, each in their place, and when he returneth home again he is waited on to his house in the same manner.
Page 267 - No example of such a solemnity had existed since the days of our distresses in the war of '55, since which a new generation had grown up. With the help, therefore, of Rushworth, whom we rummaged over for the revolutionary precedents and forms of the Puritans of that day, preserved by him, we cooked up a resolution, somewhat modernizing their phrases, for appointing the 1st day of June, on which the portbill was to commence, for a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer...
Page 83 - For still the world prevail'd, and its dread laugh, Which scarce the firm philosopher can scorn...
Page 307 - And all these things I do plainly and sincerely acknowledge and swear, according to these express words by me spoken, and according to the plain and common sense and understanding of the same words, without any equivocation, mental evasion, or secret reservation whatsoever.