The Chaplains and Clergy of the RevolutionC. Scribner, 1864 - 402 páginas |
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... common belief , the universal impression , is against it . There has scarcely been a celebration of the day on which our independence was declared , in which this religious element is not referred to as constituting one of the chief ...
... common belief , the universal impression , is against it . There has scarcely been a celebration of the day on which our independence was declared , in which this religious element is not referred to as constituting one of the chief ...
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... common stock closed in deadly conflict at Lexington and Concord did such ominous truths fall on the hearts of ruler and ruled . [ 1771. ] - The next year , on the 29th of May , John Tucker , of the First Church of Newbury , preached the ...
... common stock closed in deadly conflict at Lexington and Concord did such ominous truths fall on the hearts of ruler and ruled . [ 1771. ] - The next year , on the 29th of May , John Tucker , of the First Church of Newbury , preached the ...
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... and wrath like the roaring of lions , boldly ventured to engage in maintaining our common rights upon forming and supporting a continental army , and in appointing able generals to command it , " in whom we can confide and do rejoice - had.
... and wrath like the roaring of lions , boldly ventured to engage in maintaining our common rights upon forming and supporting a continental army , and in appointing able generals to command it , " in whom we can confide and do rejoice - had.
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... common cause , and put his hands to the work , he concludes : " May heaven influence every one of us to contribute our best abilities , according to our several stations and relations , to the defense and . support of the common weal ...
... common cause , and put his hands to the work , he concludes : " May heaven influence every one of us to contribute our best abilities , according to our several stations and relations , to the defense and . support of the common weal ...
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... common sense . Having thus cleared every thing from his path , as he advanced in his argument , he closed it by boldly declaring that " any people , when cruelly oppressed , had a right to throw off the yoke , and be free . " He proved ...
... common sense . Having thus cleared every thing from his path , as he advanced in his argument , he closed it by boldly declaring that " any people , when cruelly oppressed , had a right to throw off the yoke , and be free . " He proved ...
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Página 183 - Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand...
Página 302 - NOT unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake.
Página 302 - O SING unto the LORD a new song ; for he hath done marvellous things : His right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory.
Página 183 - Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?
Página 23 - The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God ; and he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds ; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Página 372 - If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth...
Página 85 - Plead my cause, O Lord, with them that strive with me : Fight against them that fight against me.
Página 373 - By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song ; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Página 46 - Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord, against the mighty.
Página 183 - A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.