The Memorial History of Boston: Including Suffolk County, Massachusetts, 1630-1880, Volume 2

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Justin Winsor
Osgood, 1882
 

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Pagina 163 - Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
Pagina 473 - For preventing and avoiding the many and great mischiefs which arise from public stage-plays, interludes, and other theatrical entertainments, which not only occasion great and unnecessary expenses, and discourage industry and frugality, but likewise tend generally to increase immorality, impiety, and a contempt of religion.
Pagina 199 - Church members who were admitted in minority, understanding the doctrine of faith, and publicly professing their assent thereto, not scandalous in life, and solemnly owning the covenant before the church, wherein they give up themselves and their children to the Lord, and subject themselves to the government of Christ in the church, their children are to be baptized.
Pagina 193 - We went into the church where, in the first place, a minister made a prayer in the pulpit, of full two hours in length ; after which an old minister delivered a sermon an hour long, and after that a prayer was made, and some verses sung out of the psalms. In the afternoon, three or four hours were consumed with nothing except prayers, three ministers relieving each other alternately ; when one was tired, another went up into the pulpit.
Pagina 136 - Irish, of bad character, and gave the girl harsh language ; soon after which she fell into fits which were said 'to have something diabolical in them. One of her sisters and two brothers ' followed her example, and, it is said, were tormented in the same part of their bodies at the same time, although kept in separate apartments and ignorant of one another's complaints.
Pagina 185 - tis reported he should say that by one Play he could teach more Divinity than Mr. Willard or the Old Testament. Mr. Moodey said 'twas not a time for NE to dance. Mr. Mather struck at the Root, speaking against mixt Dances.
Pagina 282 - Figure me in your mind as jolly as formerly, and as strong and hearty, only a few years older ; very plainly dressed, wearing my thin grey straight hair, that peeps out under my only coiffure, a fine fur cap ; which comes down my forehead almost to my spectacles. Think how this must appear among the powdered heads of Paris...
Pagina 182 - Confession of Faith, owned and consented unto by the Elders and Messengers of the Churches...
Pagina 144 - But Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted him up ; and he arose. 28 And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out ? 29 And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing but by prayer and fasting.
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