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Seite 58 - 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.
Seite 50 - It was also voted, that one hundred acres should be laid forth, and appropriated for a school, for encouragement of the poorer sort to train up their youth in learning ; and Mr. Robert Lenthal, while he continues to teach school, is to have the benefit thereof.
Seite 50 - called by a vote of the freemen to keep a public school for the learning of youth, and, for his encouragement, there was granted him and his heirs one hundred acres of land and four more for a house lot.
Seite 60 - ... no person within the said colony shall be molested, punished, disquieted, or called in question for any differences of opinion in matters of religion...
Seite 4 - ... his guile, — he makes me act the host To shelter him, and lo ! he shelters me ; Asking for alms, he summons me to be A guest at banquets of the Holy Ghost. So, on and on, through many an opening door That gladly opens to the key I bring, From brightening court to court of Christ, my King, Hope-led, love-fed, I journey evermore. At last I trust these changing scenes will cease ; There is a court I hear where he abides ; No door beyond, that further glory hides. — My host at home, all change...
Seite 4 - Remember the former things of old : for I am God, and there is none else ; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, " My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure...
Seite 48 - ... times in his teaching declare, that it was the duty of a church to contribute towards the maintenance of their elders, who labored in the word and doctrine of Christ ; and although for his own part he would take nothing, yet it remained the church's duty to be performed to such as might succeed him.
Seite 4 - ... farther place I sit with darkness, waiting for a sign ; Again I hear the same sweet plea divine, And suit, outside, of hospitable grace. This is his guile, — he makes me act the host To shelter him, and lo ! he shelters me; Asking for alms, he summons me to be A guest at banquets of the Holy Ghost. So, on and on, through many an opening door That gladly opens to the key I bring, From brightening court to court of Christ, my King, Hope-led, love-fed, I journey evermore. At last I trust these...
Seite 34 - ... the early race of Rhode Islanders. Thirty times successively chosen to the highest office, he preserved his popularity amidst political convulsions that had swept away every other official in the Colony. He was the connecting link between two centuries of its history, and seemed, as it were, the bridge over which it passed in safety from the long struggle for existence with the royal governors of Massachusetts to the peaceful possession of its chartered rights under the House of Hanover.
Seite 54 - ... morality, generous and practical philanthropy and pure minded Christianity which have blessed and developed our people is owing to their religious teachings. Next to the Friends, in numbers and influence, stood the Baptists. John Cooke, whose name we meet with on the first and on nearly every page of the early records of the town as a deputy and a selectman, filling various offices of trust and honor, was a Baptist minister for many years. But this same town official, October 29th, 1670, was...