Papers and Proceedings of the Connecticut Valley Historical Society ..., Volumen2

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Página 113 - I charge you before God and His blessed angels, that you follow me no farther than you have seen me follow the Lord Jesus Christ. If God reveal anything to you, by any other instrument of His, be as ready to receive it as ever you were to receive any truth by my ministry: for I am verily persuaded, the Lord has more truth yet to break forth out of His holy word.
Página 23 - Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt : Thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, And it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river.
Página 3 - It requires the inhabitants of each town to be constantly provided with " an able, learned, and orthodox minister, or ministers, of good conversation, to dispense the word of God to them.
Página 236 - Societies, serving the last as president, orator, and a member of the executive committee. He is also a member of the...
Página 32 - Christ, by his obedience and death, did fully discharge the debt of all those that are thus justified, and did make a proper, real, and full satisfaction to his Father's justice in their behalf.
Página 26 - June, 1641, adopted an elaborate paper,1 which asserted the claim of the Massachusetts Colony to the plantation, and ordered that " William Pynchon, gent, for the year shall have full power and authority to govern the inhabitants of Agawam, now Springfield, to hear and determine all causes and offences, both civil and criminal, that reach not to life, limbs, or banishment, according to the laws heare established.
Página 252 - Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
Página 185 - Excellency of our sincere and hearty Inclination to Transport ourselves to that very excellent and renowned Plantation upon our obtaining from His Excellency suitable incouragement. And further to act and Doe in our Names as his prudence shall direct. Given under our hands this 26th day of March, Anno Dom. 1718.
Página 84 - ... little thought of future trouble seemed to have been held on the English side of the sea. A still bolder step was taken in 1643, when, as a measure of protection against the Indians and other threatened dangers, the colonies of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Haven and Plymouth united themselves into a Confederacy under the title of the United Colonies of New England.

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