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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... received , and I only regret that the one herewith presented to the public , is so little worthy to have a place among them . Increase Mather was not a literal Pilgrim , but the son of a Pilgrim . He was born in this country soon after ...
... received , and I only regret that the one herewith presented to the public , is so little worthy to have a place among them . Increase Mather was not a literal Pilgrim , but the son of a Pilgrim . He was born in this country soon after ...
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... received an invitation to return to Torteth , not as a schoolmaster , but as a minister of righteousness . He was ordained , together with several others , 1 by Dr. Morton , bishop of Chester . When the 12 LIFE OF INCREASE MATHER .
... received an invitation to return to Torteth , not as a schoolmaster , but as a minister of righteousness . He was ordained , together with several others , 1 by Dr. Morton , bishop of Chester . When the 12 LIFE OF INCREASE MATHER .
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... received his name , Increase , from the increasing and prosperous state of the colony , at that period . Like many other eminent ministers , he was greatly indebted , in early life , to the prayers and counsels of a pious mother . She ...
... received his name , Increase , from the increasing and prosperous state of the colony , at that period . Like many other eminent ministers , he was greatly indebted , in early life , to the prayers and counsels of a pious mother . She ...
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... received notions of the Millennium , for those which now so generally prevail . The first ministers of New England , like many of the primitive Christians , and of the Protestant reformers , lived in habitual expectation of the second ...
... received notions of the Millennium , for those which now so generally prevail . The first ministers of New England , like many of the primitive Christians , and of the Protestant reformers , lived in habitual expectation of the second ...
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... receiving and adopting it . And as there was usually a multitude of people present on these occasions , so there were thousands who felt and testified that they never saw more con- vincing evidence of the special presence of God , than ...
... receiving and adopting it . And as there was usually a multitude of people present on these occasions , so there were thousands who felt and testified that they never saw more con- vincing evidence of the special presence of God , than ...
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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.