Sketches of Virginia: Historical and Biographical, Volume 1William S. Martien, 1850 |
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... hand , is in exist- ence . No biographical sketch , drawn by a cotemporary , has given a portraiture of the man , or a connected history of his services . What remains of him , -and there are remains , -is like the ruins of an ancient ...
... hand , is in exist- ence . No biographical sketch , drawn by a cotemporary , has given a portraiture of the man , or a connected history of his services . What remains of him , -and there are remains , -is like the ruins of an ancient ...
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... hands . He is a singular instance of a man engaging in the work of an Evangelist and of a merchant , and prospering in both . Like Paul , he laboured , that he might preach the gospel , where , a competent support for a minister could ...
... hands . He is a singular instance of a man engaging in the work of an Evangelist and of a merchant , and prospering in both . Like Paul , he laboured , that he might preach the gospel , where , a competent support for a minister could ...
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... hand , and we have reason to lament their deficiency . Had our friends at home been equally watchful and diligent as the Episcopal society at London , our interest in most foreign plantations might have carried the balance . " In the ...
... hand , and we have reason to lament their deficiency . Had our friends at home been equally watchful and diligent as the Episcopal society at London , our interest in most foreign plantations might have carried the balance . " In the ...
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... hand , the trials of Mr. John Boyd ; these were finished the next session of the Presbytery . - which was on the 27th of December . The year of this meeting is supposed to be 1706 , as the next meeting took place in March 1707. It ...
... hand , the trials of Mr. John Boyd ; these were finished the next session of the Presbytery . - which was on the 27th of December . The year of this meeting is supposed to be 1706 , as the next meeting took place in March 1707. It ...
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... hand for Independency would not render him less obnoxious to the laws of the province , or on the other , for prelacy , add any thing to his usefulness . The fruits of Makemie's labours are seen , in the places where he expended his ...
... hand for Independency would not render him less obnoxious to the laws of the province , or on the other , for prelacy , add any thing to his usefulness . The fruits of Makemie's labours are seen , in the places where he expended his ...
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Page 216 - Thou believest that there is one God ; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
Page 347 - ... that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order...
Page 346 - ... all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion...
Page 50 - Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certain Laws...
Page 11 - I thank God there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have them these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Page 347 - THAT NO MAN SHALL BE COMPELLED to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever...
Page 346 - That to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical...
Page 381 - Devotion alone should have stopped me, to join in the duties of the congregation; but I must confess that curiosity to hear the preacher of such a wilderness was not the least of my motives.
Page 322 - Because we hold it for a fundamental and undeniable truth, "that Religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator and the Manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence.
Page 110 - Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?