The Religious History of New EnglandHarvard University Press, 1917 - 356 Seiten |
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America Andover Theological Seminary appeared Arminian Ballou Baptist churches became believed Bible bishop body Boston called Calvinism Calvinists Cambridge century Christ Christian Church of England communion Congregational churches Congregationalism Congregationalists Connecticut Court covenant creed denomination divine doctrine early ecclesiastical Edwards elected English Episcopal Church Episcopalians established faith fellowship Gospel Half-way Covenant Harvard College held Hosea Ballou human hundred Increase Mather influence institution interest Isaac Backus Jacob Duché John King's Chapel leaders liberal liberty living Lord Massachusetts matter meeting-house ment Methodism Methodist mind minister ministry mission missionary moral movement nature ordination organized orthodox parish pastor persons Plymouth political prayer preachers preaching Presbyterians President principle Protestant Puritan Quakers rector religion religious revelation salvation School Scripture sermon social Society souls spirit standing order Swedenborg theological thought tion town Trinity truth Unitarians Universalists University Whitefield whole William Word worship Yale
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 202 - England, from whence we rise, our dear mother; and cannot part from our native country, where she specially resideth, without much sadness of heart and many tears in our eyes, ever acknowledging that such hope and part as we have obtained in the common salvation we have received in her bosom, and sucked it from her breasts.
Seite 154 - After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Seite 311 - And these all, having obtained a good report through faith received not the promise, God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
Seite 31 - For my part, I have ever believed, and do now know, that there are witches : they that doubt of these do not only deny them but spirits ; and are obliquely and upon consequence a sort not of infidels but atheists.
Seite 202 - We will not say as the Separatists were wont to say at their leaving of England, Farewell, Babylon! Farewell, Rome ! but we will say, Farewell, dear England ! Farewell the Church of God in England, and all the Christian friends there ! We do not go to New England as Separatists from the Church of England; though we cannot but separate from the corruptions in it. But we go to practise the positive part of Church reformation, and propagate the Gospel in America!
Seite 204 - But mine eyes are unto thee, O GOD the LORD : in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute. 9 Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity. 10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape.
Seite 136 - Forasmuch as experience hath plentifully and often proved, that since the first rising of the Anabaptists, about one hundred years since, they have been the incendiaries of the commonwealth, and the infectors of persons in main matters of religion, and the troublers of churches in all places where they have been...
Seite 136 - ... shall either openly condemn or oppose the baptizing of infants, or go about secretly to seduce others from the approbation or use thereof, or shall purposely depart the congregation at the ministration of the ordinance, or shall deny the ordinance of magistracy, or their lawful right and authority to make war, or to punish the outward breaches of the first table...
Seite 81 - A snowstorm was falling around us. The snowstorm was real ; the preacher merely spectral ; and the eye felt the sad contrast in looking at him, and then out of the window behind him, into the beautiful meteor of the snow.
Seite 297 - We believe that there is one God, whose nature is love ; revealed in one Lord Jesus Christ, by one Holy Spirit of grace, who will finally restore the whole family of mankind to holiness and happiness.