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... RELIGION AND POLITICS , FOK ALMOST TWENTY YEARS : And finally , FALSELY ACCUSED AND IMPRISONED In Norwich Jail , for two years , on the charge of Crimes said to have been committed in the town of Gris- wold , in the county of New London ...
... RELIGION AND POLITICS , FOK ALMOST TWENTY YEARS : And finally , FALSELY ACCUSED AND IMPRISONED In Norwich Jail , for two years , on the charge of Crimes said to have been committed in the town of Gris- wold , in the county of New London ...
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... religious freedom have been wrested from him , he still has one privilege left , the privilege of complaining . A statement of his case , and an appeal to the public , is the dernier resort of an injured man ; such an appeal , supported ...
... religious freedom have been wrested from him , he still has one privilege left , the privilege of complaining . A statement of his case , and an appeal to the public , is the dernier resort of an injured man ; such an appeal , supported ...
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... religion , and the awful concerns of eternity . My parents were pious , and strict in the Congregational Presbyterian religion , and I had been brought up in that way . From my earliest child- hood , I had been impressed with a sense of ...
... religion , and the awful concerns of eternity . My parents were pious , and strict in the Congregational Presbyterian religion , and I had been brought up in that way . From my earliest child- hood , I had been impressed with a sense of ...
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... him , and to our God , for he will abundantly pardon . " The great design of all true religion , and of all good preaching , is to change the natural disposition of the human heart , which is deceitful above MEMOIRS . 11.
... him , and to our God , for he will abundantly pardon . " The great design of all true religion , and of all good preaching , is to change the natural disposition of the human heart , which is deceitful above MEMOIRS . 11.
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... religious convictions were strong , my impressions were deep , my conversion was hopeful and joyous , but my views of the doctrines of religion were varient from the Saybrook confession of faith , and the Assembly's Catechism , though ...
... religious convictions were strong , my impressions were deep , my conversion was hopeful and joyous , but my views of the doctrines of religion were varient from the Saybrook confession of faith , and the Assembly's Catechism , though ...
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Page 236 - We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done ; And we have done those things which we ought not to have done; And there is no health in us.
Page 235 - ALMIGHTY God, our heavenly Father, who of thy tender mercy didst give thine only Son Jesus Christ to suffer death upon the cross for our redemption, who made there (by his one oblation of himself once offered) a full, perfect, and sufficient sacrifice, oblation, and satisfaction for the sins of the whole world...
Page 6 - Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people...
Page 25 - THEREFORE with angels and archangels, and with all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify thy glorious name, evermore praising thee, and saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts ! heaven and earth are full of thy glory. Glory be to thee, O Lord most high.
Page 21 - WHEN all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise...
Page 206 - ALMIGHTY GOD, who alone canst order the unruly wills and affections of sinful men ; Grant unto thy people, that they may love the thing which thou commandest, and desire that which thou dost promise ; that so, among the sundry and manifold changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed, where true joys are to be found ; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 80 - GOD, the protector of all that trust in thee, without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy ; Increase and multiply upon us thy mercy; that, thou being our ruler and guide, we may so pass through things temporal, that we finally lose not the things eternal : Grant this, O heavenly Father, for Jesus Christ's sake our Lord. Amen.
Page 235 - From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good, and wholly inclined to all evil, do proceed all actual transgressions.
Page 11 - LET THE WICKED FORSAKE HIS WAYS, AND THE UNRIGHTEOUS MAN HIS THOUGHTS: AND LET HIM RETURN UNTO THE LORD, AND HE WILL HAVE MERCY UPON HIM; AND TO OUR GOD, FOR HE WILL ABUNDANTLY PARDON.
Page 11 - The Grace of God which bringeth salvation hath appeared unto all men, teaching us, that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world...