A Discourse Delivered at Providence, August 5, L836: In Commemoration of the First Settlement of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Being the Second Centennial Anniversary of the Settlement of ProvidenceB. Cranston, 1836 - 72 páginas |
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... Indians , for many high and heavenly and public ends , encouraging me from the freeness of the place from any English claims or patents . " * Mr. Williams had now to encounter the perils of the wilderness . He says , " he steered his ...
... Indians , for many high and heavenly and public ends , encouraging me from the freeness of the place from any English claims or patents . " * Mr. Williams had now to encounter the perils of the wilderness . He says , " he steered his ...
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... Indians . " My soul's desire , said he , was to do them good , " and he rightly deemed that a knowledge of their language was essential to enable him to conciliate their affections , and preach to them with effect . While he lived in ...
... Indians . " My soul's desire , said he , was to do them good , " and he rightly deemed that a knowledge of their language was essential to enable him to conciliate their affections , and preach to them with effect . While he lived in ...
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... Indians near the lower ferry by the word whatcheer ! " - that " they went round till they got to a pleasant spring above the great bridge , where they landed ; and near to which both he and Angell lived to old age . " ( Vol . 1 , p . 74 ...
... Indians near the lower ferry by the word whatcheer ! " - that " they went round till they got to a pleasant spring above the great bridge , where they landed ; and near to which both he and Angell lived to old age . " ( Vol . 1 , p . 74 ...
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... Indians , ) for the benefit and assurance of the present and future inhabitants of the island . This I mention , that as that truly nobie Sir Henry Vane hath been so great an instru- ment , in the hand of God , for procuring of this ...
... Indians , ) for the benefit and assurance of the present and future inhabitants of the island . This I mention , that as that truly nobie Sir Henry Vane hath been so great an instru- ment , in the hand of God , for procuring of this ...
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... Indians of Narragansett , and like- wise for an outlet into the Narragansett bay , and seeing it came without our seeking , and would be no charge to us , we thought it not wisdom to let it slip . " 97 * Had they not invited these men ...
... Indians of Narragansett , and like- wise for an outlet into the Narragansett bay , and seeing it came without our seeking , and would be no charge to us , we thought it not wisdom to let it slip . " 97 * Had they not invited these men ...
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admitted advice aforesaid Aquetneck Assembly Assistants authority banishment Benedict Arnold Boston Brown called Canonicus and Miantinomo Catholics Chad Brown charge Chief Sachems church of Salem civil things claimed Commissioners Connecticut Constitution Court deed disposed elected English favor freemen friends Governor granted gratuity honor Indians inhabitants of Providence island John Clarke John Coggeshall John Greene John Throckmorton jurisdiction king Knowles laws letter liams liberty of conscience Lord loving magistrates Massachusetts meadows ment ministers Moshassuck Narragansett Bay natives neighbors New-England Newport Nicholas Easton opinions Pawtucket Pawtuxet lands Pawtuxet river peace Pequod Plymouth Portsmouth present principle procuring Providence and Warwick Providence Plantations Pumham purchase ragansett received religious Rhode Richard Waterman Roger Wil Roger Williams Samuel Gorton Savage's Winthrop says Winthrop Seekonk settlement of Providence Sir Henry Vane thirty pounds Thomas Angell Thomas Olney tion town of Providence Uncas United Colonies unto William Coddington William Harris
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Página 11 - Sixthly, it is the will and command of God that (since the coming of his Son the Lord Jesus) a permission of the most paganish, Jewish, Turkish, or antichristian consciences and worships, be granted to all men in all nations and countries...
Página 33 - We whose names are underwritten do here solemnly in the presence of Jehovah, incorporate ourselves into a Bodie Politick, and as he shall help, will .submit our persons, lives and estates unto our Lord Jesus Christ, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and to all those perfect and most absolute laws of his given us in his holy word of truth, to be guided and judged thereby.
Página 15 - 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 any thing 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, I am very confident, the Lord has more truth yet to break forth out of his holy word.
Página 67 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No ! Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued, In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain, — These constitute a State ; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, • O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing...
Página 9 - So absolute (says he) was the authority of the crown, that the precious spark of liberty had been kindled, and was preserved, by the Puritans alone ; and it was to this sect that the English owe the whole freedom of their constitution.
Página 19 - He justified both these letters, and maintained all his opinions; and, being offered further conference or disputation, and a month's respite, he chose to dispute presently.
Página 27 - We whose names are hereunder, desirous to inhabit in the town of Providence, do promise to subject ourselves in active or passive obedience to all such orders or agreements as shall be made for public good of the body, in an orderly way, by the major assent of the present inhabitants, masters of families, incorporated together into a town fellowship, and such others whom they shall admit unto them, only in civil things.
Página 46 - In due Consideration of the said Premises, the said Robert Earl of Warwick, Governor in Chief, and Lord High Admiral of the said Plantations, and the greater Number of the said Commissioners, whose Names and Seals are...
Página 52 - Quakers (so called) which are now among us, we have no law among us whereby to punish any for only declaring by words, &c. their minds and understandings concerning the things and ways of God, as to salvation and an eternal condition.
Página 21 - When I was unkindly and unchristianly, as I believe, driven from my house and land and wife and children, (in the midst of a New England winter, now about thirty-five years past,) at Salem, that ever honored Governor, Mr.