A Sketch of the History of Newbury, Newburyport, and West Newbury, from 1635 to 1845S.G. Drake, 1845 - 416 pages |
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... ministers and captains , and some other chief men , to advise what was fit to be done for our safety , in regard the French were like to prove ill neighbours , ( being papists :) at which meeting it was agreed that a plantation and a ...
... ministers and captains , and some other chief men , to advise what was fit to be done for our safety , in regard the French were like to prove ill neighbours , ( being papists :) at which meeting it was agreed that a plantation and a ...
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... minister , and a company with him , being about one hundred , [ and ] went to sit down at Agawam , and divers others of the new comers . ' ‡ So great , in fact , was the influx of emigrants to New England , that in many places they ...
... minister , and a company with him , being about one hundred , [ and ] went to sit down at Agawam , and divers others of the new comers . ' ‡ So great , in fact , was the influx of emigrants to New England , that in many places they ...
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... ministers of Jesus Christ at Newberry , are in that way and so known , so far as as a single congregation can be exercised in it ; yet never had the least molestation or disturbance , and have and find as good respect from magis- trates ...
... ministers of Jesus Christ at Newberry , are in that way and so known , so far as as a single congregation can be exercised in it ; yet never had the least molestation or disturbance , and have and find as good respect from magis- trates ...
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... ministers was built , a large number of house lots , planting lots , and meadow lots were granted . How many houses were erected and how many families were in Newbury during the first year , there is no record to inform us . Houses were ...
... ministers was built , a large number of house lots , planting lots , and meadow lots were granted . How many houses were erected and how many families were in Newbury during the first year , there is no record to inform us . Houses were ...
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... minister in Wiltshire , with his wife and six small children , was drowned . ' This Mr. Avery , ' says Cotton Mather , ' went to Newberry , intending there to settle , but being urged by magistrates and ministers to settle in Marblehead ...
... minister in Wiltshire , with his wife and six small children , was drowned . ' This Mr. Avery , ' says Cotton Mather , ' went to Newberry , intending there to settle , but being urged by magistrates and ministers to settle in Marblehead ...
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Page 386 - Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them; wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?
Page 330 - Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need
Page 346 - Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee ; leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way ; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
Page 336 - O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
Page 337 - And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
Page 209 - Then tidings of these things came unto the ears of the Church which was in Jerusalem, and they sent forth Barnabas, that he should go as far as Antioch ; who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord...
Page 343 - Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
Page 16 - But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.
Page 339 - Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Page 208 - Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost saith, Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: when your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.