The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America

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James Munroe, 1843 - 96 pages
 

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Page 3 - I dare take upon me, to be the Herauld of New-England so farre, as to proclaime to the world, in the name of our Colony, that all Familists, Antinomians, Anabaptists, and other Enthusiasts, shall have free Liberty to keep away from us, and such as will come to be gone as fast as they can, the sooner the better.
Page 4 - Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel...
Page 1 - Either I am in an Apoplexy, or that man is in a Lethargy, who doth not now sensibly feel God shaking the Heavens over his head, and the Earth under his feet...
Page ix - mend his Native Country, lamentably tattered, both in the upper-Leather and sole, with all the honest stitches he can take.
Page 35 - Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down, not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.
Page 6 - Papist preached in one Church, a Lutheran in another, a Calvinist in a third ; a Lutheran one part of the day, a Calvinist the other, in the same Pulpit : the Religion of that place was but molly and meagre, their affections Leopardlike.
Page 4 - Religious Foundations on the mine of true Religion ; which strictly binds every conscience to contend earnestly for the Truth : to preserve unity of spirit, faith and Ordinances, to be all...
Page 9 - That there is no Rule given by God for any State to give an Affirmative Toleration to any false Religion, or Opinion whatsoever ; they must connive in some cases, but may not concede in any.
Page 12 - I can rather stand amazed then reply to this: it is an astonishment to think that the braines of men should be parboyl'd in such impious ignorance; Let all the wits under the Heavens lay their heads together and finde an Assertion worse than this (one excepted) I will Petition to be chosen the universal Ideot of the world.
Page 9 - Christians, that it is farre better to live in a State united, though a little Corrupt, then in a State, whereof some Part is incorrupt, and all the rest divided. I am not altogether ignorant of the eight Rules...

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