Proscription Delineated, Or, A Development of Facts Appertaining to the Arbitrary and Oppressive Proceedings of the North Association of Litchfield County in Relation to the Authorauthor, 1819 - 290 pages |
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... soon after informed by a committee appointed for that purpose , there was a unanimous request that I should settle with them in the work of the gospel ministry . I immediately re- flected that the society was new , small , and compo ...
... soon after informed by a committee appointed for that purpose , there was a unanimous request that I should settle with them in the work of the gospel ministry . I immediately re- flected that the society was new , small , and compo ...
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... soon sink under the burden . In the mean time , my domestic concerns engross- ed much of my care and labour . About the time of my settlement I had purchased a small place for my residence , wholly out of repairs , and unfit for ...
... soon sink under the burden . In the mean time , my domestic concerns engross- ed much of my care and labour . About the time of my settlement I had purchased a small place for my residence , wholly out of repairs , and unfit for ...
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... soon after , Methodist preachers flock- ed around us . A line was almost instantaneously drawn . Every certificated person immediately re- sorted to Baptist or Methodist meetings , as they happened to be supplied with either order of ...
... soon after , Methodist preachers flock- ed around us . A line was almost instantaneously drawn . Every certificated person immediately re- sorted to Baptist or Methodist meetings , as they happened to be supplied with either order of ...
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... soon as the busy season of the summer was over , to convene a council and obtain a dismission . Accordingly , when that period had arrived , I made known my intentions to the people . An alarm was immedi- ately produced . Great efforts ...
... soon as the busy season of the summer was over , to convene a council and obtain a dismission . Accordingly , when that period had arrived , I made known my intentions to the people . An alarm was immedi- ately produced . Great efforts ...
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... soon three ; and , eventually , four . In the progress of the school , it became necessary to enlarge my dwelling ... soon called on him to as- certain the truth . He acknowledged it was true , and that the school would soon commence ! I ...
... soon three ; and , eventually , four . In the progress of the school , it became necessary to enlarge my dwelling ... soon called on him to as- certain the truth . He acknowledged it was true , and that the school would soon commence ! I ...
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adjourn affidavit already Amenia ANSEL STERLING answer appeared article of charge asso association of Litchfield assured attend Beach Beecher body brethren Bridgeport bank brother Calhoon called certificate Charles Prentice cheerfully church city of Hudson claim commenced committee communication complaint Connecticut consociation copy Cornwall Cowles criminal Cyrus Swan Daniel Parker Daniel St David Porter deacon declared defence duty Ellsworth endorser engaged evidence exhibited facts given gospel Greene county Greenville guilty Harvey Hotchkin hundred dollars informed inquiry investigation Ira Swift John JOHN CALHOON John Tallmadge labours letter Lewis note Litchfield county loan meet ment Messrs ministers ministry moderator months New-York north association object observed obtained Perry person Peter Starr Philo Swift probably proceeded procure received rendered replied request respecting secure Sharon Skiff slander society soon statement Stone subscriber Tallmadge testify testimony thing tion trial truth wholly witnesses Yale College
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Page 199 - Their throat is an open sepulchre ; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes.
Page 198 - What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise : for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; as it is written, " There is none righteous, no, not one: there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Page 100 - And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not, I will lead them in paths that they have not known : I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake . them.
Page 2 - BBOWN, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit : " Sertorius : or, the Roman Patriot.
Page 288 - Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him, for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. " Woe unto the wicked! It shall be ill with him, for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
Page 2 - Congress of the United States, entitled "an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned." And also to an act entitled "an act supplementary to an act entitled an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the...
Page 288 - Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the Lord. Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them : behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the Lord.
Page 178 - Tis from high life high characters are drawn : A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn ; A judge is just, a chancellor juster still ; A gownman learn'd ; a bishop what you will ; Wise if a minister ; but if a king, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more every thing.
Page 65 - That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
Page 70 - Stephen the most barbarous violence ; caused an execrable conspiracy of forty zealots to bind themselves by an oath, that they would neither eat nor drink till they had slain Paul...