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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... votes to things they un- derstood not , " but " without respect to men , as they should be satisfied and persuaded ... voted , unanimously , that the Scriptures do hold forth a perfect rule for the direc- tion and government of men in ...
... votes to things they un- derstood not , " but " without respect to men , as they should be satisfied and persuaded ... voted , unanimously , that the Scriptures do hold forth a perfect rule for the direc- tion and government of men in ...
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... voted that they " felt themselves bound to establish such civil order as might best conduce to the securing of the purity and peace of the ordinances to themselves and their posterity ac- cording to God . " " Then , " as the record ...
... voted that they " felt themselves bound to establish such civil order as might best conduce to the securing of the purity and peace of the ordinances to themselves and their posterity ac- cording to God . " " Then , " as the record ...
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... voted at this time or not , " it was deliberately voted that " free burgesses shall be chosen out of the church ... vote had been taken , one man expressed his dissent in part . That man , though the record does not name him , was ...
... voted at this time or not , " it was deliberately voted that " free burgesses shall be chosen out of the church ... vote had been taken , one man expressed his dissent in part . That man , though the record does not name him , was ...
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... vote was taken , " he entreated them again to consider of it , and put it again to vote as before . " It was voted again with one consent . " And some of them confessed , that whereas they did waver before they came to the assembly ...
... vote was taken , " he entreated them again to consider of it , and put it again to vote as before . " It was voted again with one consent . " And some of them confessed , that whereas they did waver before they came to the assembly ...
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... vote in church - meetings who could have no voice at all in the government of the civil state . None ever marked the distinction between the church and the state more carefully than Davenport . " Ecclesiastical administrations , " he ...
... vote in church - meetings who could have no voice at all in the government of the civil state . None ever marked the distinction between the church and the state more carefully than Davenport . " Ecclesiastical administrations , " he ...
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