| John Warner Barber - 1856 - 644 páginas
...fasting and prayer, they entered into what they termed a plantation covenant. In this they solemnly bound themselves, ' That as in matters that concern...would all of them be ordered by the rules, which the scripture held forth lo them.' This was adopted as a general agreement, until there should be time... | |
| John Warner Barber - 1856 - 636 páginas
...magistrates and officers, making and repealing laws, dividing allotments of inheritance, and all tllings of like nature, they would all of them be ordered by the rules, which the scripture held forth to them.' This was adopted as a general agreement, until there should be time... | |
| GEORGE BANCROFT - 1856 - 500 páginas
...they rested their first frame of government on a simple plantation covenant, that " all of them would be ordered by the rules which the Scriptures held forth to them." A title to lands was obtained by a treaty with the natives, whom they protected against the Mohawks.... | |
| John Gorham Palfrey - 1858 - 696 páginas
...public offices which concern civil order, as choice of magistrates and officers, making and repealing of laws, dividing allotments of inheritance, and all...like nature, they would all of them be ordered by those rules which the Scripture holds forth." 3. That they were " settled in the plantation with a... | |
| Gideon Hiram Hollister - 1858 - 666 páginas
...concern the gathering and ordering of a church, so also in all public affairs that concern civil order, they would all of them be ordered by the rules which the Scripture held forth to them." The spring of that year was backward and forbidding. The seed corn rotted... | |
| John Gorham Palfrey - 1859 - 686 páginas
...public offices which concern civil order, as choice of magistrates and officers, making and repealing of laws, dividing allotments of inheritance, and all...like nature, they would all of them be ordered by those rules which the Scripture holds forth." 3. That they were " settled in the plantation with a... | |
| Isabella Lucy Bird - 1859 - 234 páginas
...men who laid the foundation of their civil government by simply covenanting that " all of them would be ordered by the rules which the Scriptures held forth to them." Purity of religious doctrine, freedom of religious worship, and the service and glory of God were proclaimed... | |
| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1859 - 814 páginas
...in establishing the system of civil polity, which began by the declaration that " all of them would be ordered by the rules which the Scriptures held forth to them." On June 4, 1649, holding their constituent assembly in a barn, the " free planters " resolved that... | |
| American cyclopaedia - 1859 - 790 páginas
...in establishing the system of civil polity, which began by the declaration that " all of them would be ordered by the rules which the Scriptures held forth to them." On June 4, 1649, holding their constituent assembly in a barn, the " free planters " resolved that... | |
| William Roberts - 1863 - 280 páginas
...of fasting and prayer, they rested their frame of government on a covenant that " all of them would be ordered by the rules which the Scriptures held forth to them." In 1639, the free planters of the 1639. r colony met in a barn, and agreed upon a code of laws, and... | |
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