Thirteen Historical Discourses, on the Completion of Two Hundred Years: From the Beginning of the First Church in New Haven, with an AppendixDurrie & Peck, 1839 - 400 pages |
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... land . The hills were cov- ered with the shadow of it ; and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars . She sent out her boughs to the sea and her branches to the river . THIS is the first Sabbath in the third century of the ...
... land . The hills were cov- ered with the shadow of it ; and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars . She sent out her boughs to the sea and her branches to the river . THIS is the first Sabbath in the third century of the ...
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... land of our fathers - the seeds of truth and spiri- tual freedom , sown by Wycliffe a hundred and fifty years before Luther's time , were never entirely extirpated . And when Germany and Switzerland began to be agitated with the great ...
... land of our fathers - the seeds of truth and spiri- tual freedom , sown by Wycliffe a hundred and fifty years before Luther's time , were never entirely extirpated . And when Germany and Switzerland began to be agitated with the great ...
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... lands and treasures of the monasteries ; he brought the bishops into an abject dependence on his power ; he exercised the prerogative of allowing or restraining at his pleasure the circulation and use of the Scriptures ; and , with ...
... lands and treasures of the monasteries ; he brought the bishops into an abject dependence on his power ; he exercised the prerogative of allowing or restraining at his pleasure the circulation and use of the Scriptures ; and , with ...
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... land of promise , -and for the first time since the creation , the echoes of these hills and waters are wakened by the voice of praise . The word of God is opened ; and their faith and hope are strengthened for the conflicts before them ...
... land of promise , -and for the first time since the creation , the echoes of these hills and waters are wakened by the voice of praise . The word of God is opened ; and their faith and hope are strengthened for the conflicts before them ...
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... lands under cultivation , as soon as they should have enough of what was taxable and tithable to excite covetousness , the king would be sending over his needy profligates to govern them , and the archbishop his surpliced dependents to ...
... lands under cultivation , as soon as they should have enough of what was taxable and tithable to excite covetousness , the king would be sending over his needy profligates to govern them , and the archbishop his surpliced dependents to ...
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