Sketches of the Ecclesiastical History of the State of Maine: From the Earliest Settlement to the Present TimeH. Gray, 1821 - 370 sidor |
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... taken of some Ecclesiastical affairs which have taken place in the State within ten or fifteen years past , and which might be thought by some to deserve a more particular account . But it was judged best to say as little as possible ...
... taken of some Ecclesiastical affairs which have taken place in the State within ten or fifteen years past , and which might be thought by some to deserve a more particular account . But it was judged best to say as little as possible ...
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... taken captive at the same time , but was soon redeemed . ‡ Tradition reports Mr. Dummer to have been a serious , godly man . He preached his own ordination sermon from Psalm 1xxx . 14 , and it is said that the Sabbath immediately preced ...
... taken captive at the same time , but was soon redeemed . ‡ Tradition reports Mr. Dummer to have been a serious , godly man . He preached his own ordination sermon from Psalm 1xxx . 14 , and it is said that the Sabbath immediately preced ...
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... taken from his labours by sickness , did not live to gather into the Church more than one half of those who were hopefully converted by his instru- mentality . The others have been added since . C CHAPTER III . 1702 . THE next religious ...
... taken from his labours by sickness , did not live to gather into the Church more than one half of those who were hopefully converted by his instru- mentality . The others have been added since . C CHAPTER III . 1702 . THE next religious ...
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... taken for the regular organization of a Church . After repeated meetings for this purpose , a Church was duly organized by a Council consisting of the Churches of Somersworth , York , and Wells . The prudent caution and fidelity of Mr ...
... taken for the regular organization of a Church . After repeated meetings for this purpose , a Church was duly organized by a Council consisting of the Churches of Somersworth , York , and Wells . The prudent caution and fidelity of Mr ...
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... taken partly out of what remain- ed to Mr. Smith , and partly from Cape Elizabeth Parish , and it was finally accomplished in March 1764 + Mr Smith was now sixty two years of age , and had been · This is the Indian name of a river ...
... taken partly out of what remain- ed to Mr. Smith , and partly from Cape Elizabeth Parish , and it was finally accomplished in March 1764 + Mr Smith was now sixty two years of age , and had been · This is the Indian name of a river ...
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Sketches of the Ecclesiastical History of the State of Maine: From the ... Jonathan Greenleaf Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1821 |
Sketches of the Ecclesiastical History of the State of Maine: From the ... Jonathan Greenleaf Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1821 |
Sketches of the ecclesiastical history of the state of Maine Jonathan Greenleaf Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1821 |
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Sida 50 - London to ordain only one, but could not prevail: 2, If they consented, we know the slowness of their proceedings ; but the matter admits of no delay : 3. If they would ordain them now, they would likewise expect to govern them. And how grievously would this entangle us ? 4.
Sida 50 - But the case is widely different between England and North America. Here there are bishops who have a legal jurisdiction. In America there are none, neither any parish ministers.
Sida 59 - Essex ss. The Jurors for our sovereign Lord and Lady the King and Queen, present, that George Burroughs, late of Falmouth in the Province of Massachusetts bay, clerk, the ninth day of May, in the fourth year of the reign of our sovereign Lord and Lady William and Mary, by the grace of God of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, King and Queen, defenders of the faith, &c.
Sida 50 - If any one will point out a more rational and scriptural way of feeding and guiding those poor sheep in the wilderness, I will gladly embrace it. At present I cannot see any better method than that I have taken.
Sida 51 - They are now at full liberty simply to follow the Scriptures and the primitive church. And we judge it best that they should stand fast in that liberty wherewith God has so strangely made them free.
Sida 158 - For there is not a just man upon earth, who doeth good and sinneth not.
Sida 61 - about 7 or 8 years before that time he lived at Casco Bay. George Burroughs was then minister there, that having seen much of his great strength, and the said Burroughs coming to our house, we were in discourse about the same, and he then told me, he had put his fingers into a bung hole of a barrel of molasses, and lifted it up, and carried it round him and set it down again.
Sida 49 - Assemblies. But no one either exercises or claims any ecclesiastical authority at all. In this peculiar situation some thousands of the inhabitants of these States, desire my advice, and in compliance with their desire, I have drawn up a little sketch.
Sida 50 - I have accordingly appointed Dr. Coke and Mr. Francis Asbury to be joint superintendents over our brethren in North America, as also Richard Whatcoat and Thomas Vasey to act as elders among them, by baptizing and administering the Lord's supper.
Sida 49 - BY a very uncommon train of providences, many of the provinces of North America are totally disjoined from the mother country, and erected into independent states. The English government has no authority over them, either civil or ecclesiastical, any more than over the states of Holland. A civil authority is exercised over them, partly by the congress, partly by the provincial assemblies. But no one either...