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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... heard them ! " At the period of which we are speaking , much attention was given , both in this country and in England , to the subject of church government . Our fathers had little dissension or discussion about the leading doctrines ...
... heard them ! " At the period of which we are speaking , much attention was given , both in this country and in England , to the subject of church government . Our fathers had little dissension or discussion about the leading doctrines ...
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... heard , neither have entered into the heart of man , the things which God hath prepared for them that love him . " Mr. Mather was united in a second marriage with the widow of his distinguished ministerial brother , the Rev. John Cotton ...
... heard , neither have entered into the heart of man , the things which God hath prepared for them that love him . " Mr. Mather was united in a second marriage with the widow of his distinguished ministerial brother , the Rev. John Cotton ...
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... heard already of the Reforming Synod of 1679 , -of its occasion , and results . It was hoped that a reformation and return to God so general and entire would be effected , that the tokens of his displeasure against the people of New ...
... heard already of the Reforming Synod of 1679 , -of its occasion , and results . It was hoped that a reformation and return to God so general and entire would be effected , that the tokens of his displeasure against the people of New ...
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... heard of it , he wrote at once to the secretary , disclaiming all knowledge of the letter , and expressing the opinion that Ran- dolph wrote it . This excited the hatred of Ran- dolph the more , and he brought two successive actions ...
... heard of it , he wrote at once to the secretary , disclaiming all knowledge of the letter , and expressing the opinion that Ran- dolph wrote it . This excited the hatred of Ran- dolph the more , and he brought two successive actions ...
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... heard me . Before I prayed , I was very sad , and much dejected in my spirit ; but after I had prayed , I was very cheerful and joyful . I will therefore wait for the salvation of God . " Thus wrote Mr. Mather on the sixth of February ...
... heard me . Before I prayed , I was very sad , and much dejected in my spirit ; but after I had prayed , I was very cheerful and joyful . I will therefore wait for the salvation of God . " Thus wrote Mr. Mather on the sixth of February ...
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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.