The Lives of Increase Mather and Sir William Phipps, Volumen5Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, 1847 - 286 páginas Sir William Phipp was born at Nequasset (now Woowich, Maine, in 1651, the son of James Phipps, a gunsmith from Bristol, England. His father died while he was young. He became an apprentice to a ship carpenter and after serving him for four years, he moved to Boston. There he married the widow Hull, daughter of Capt. Roger Spencer of Saco, and went into business for himself. He was appointed governor of Massachusetts in 1692. He died in 1695, leaving no children. His estate was chiefly inhertited by Spencer Phipps, a nephew whom he had adopted into his family. |
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... characters , on every account , are worthy of our study . The knowledge and the benefits of their example cannot be too widely extended . I was glad , therefore , when I saw it announced , more than a year ago , that the lives of some ...
... characters , on every account , are worthy of our study . The knowledge and the benefits of their example cannot be too widely extended . I was glad , therefore , when I saw it announced , more than a year ago , that the lives of some ...
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... character given of him by Dr. Watts , there can be no doubt that he was a learned , gifted , devoted and faithful minister of the Lord Jesus Christ . It was his lot to live in a trying period - an era of storm , revolution , and ...
... character given of him by Dr. Watts , there can be no doubt that he was a learned , gifted , devoted and faithful minister of the Lord Jesus Christ . It was his lot to live in a trying period - an era of storm , revolution , and ...
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... character , and was precious to him all his days . It is evidence of the capacity and diligence of young Mather , that he entered Harvard College when only twelve years of age . When he had been a member of College about a year , his ...
... character , and was precious to him all his days . It is evidence of the capacity and diligence of young Mather , that he entered Harvard College when only twelve years of age . When he had been a member of College about a year , his ...
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... character , they will be read with interest by all . " Extremely grieved and distracted in my studies with the thoughts of my debts , and the consideration that my people , ( or some of them , ) do not care for my deep sorrows in this ...
... character , they will be read with interest by all . " Extremely grieved and distracted in my studies with the thoughts of my debts , and the consideration that my people , ( or some of them , ) do not care for my deep sorrows in this ...
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... character . Mr. Mather usually kept a day of private fasting , once a month , in preparation for the monthly celebration of the Lord's supper . At the close of one of these days , he writes : " My heart was moved to believe that God ...
... character . Mr. Mather usually kept a day of private fasting , once a month , in preparation for the monthly celebration of the Lord's supper . At the close of one of these days , he writes : " My heart was moved to believe that God ...
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Página 201 - And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: for whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
Página 85 - If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments ; If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments ; Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
Página 266 - ... 8. Having given the above directions, suggestions and cautions, the ministers "humbly recommend to the government the speedy and vigorous prosecution of such as have rendered themselves obnoxious...
Página 202 - My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass : Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
Página 127 - Testimony to the order of the Gospel in the Churches of New England...
Página 38 - Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men...
Página 156 - To deny the possibility, nay, actual existence, of witchcraft and sorcery is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God, in various passages both of the Old and New Testament : and the thing itself is a truth to which every nation in the world hath in its turn borne testimony, either by examples seemingly well attested or by prohibitory laws ; which at least suppose the possibility of commerce with evil spirits.
Página 146 - Let thy work appear unto thy servants, And thy glory unto their children. And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: And establish thou the work of our hands upon us; Yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
Página 147 - Woe is me, for I am undone, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips ; for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of Hosts.