This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 Excerpt: ...the scfipture doth not declare it, --it was earnestly desired, that the word person might be forborn, being a term of human invention, and tending to doubtful disputation in this case.' ' Large blank. lllmrll 'Ba1'1 ' I"w1'kI 1 I made this alteration by conjecture; for the MS. looks very much like the reading of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 Excerpt: ...the scfipture doth not declare it, --it was earnestly desired, that the word person might be forborn, being a term of human invention, and tending to doubtful disputation in this case.' ' Large blank. lllmrll 'Ba1'1 ' I"w1'kI 1 I made this alteration by conjecture; for the MS. looks very much like the reading of the former edition, which Dr. Allen, in his Biographical Dictionary, offers reason for preferring. 2 So much evil has not been caused in New England, as in most other Pro10ber. The governour, receiving letters from his friends in England, which necessarily required his presence there, imparted the same to the council' and some others; and, being thereupon resolved of his return into England, called a court of deputies, to the end he might have free leave of the country, etc. They, being assembled in court, and himself declaring the necessity of his departure, and those of the council aflirming the reasons to be very urgent, though not fit to be imparted to the whole court, they desired respite to consider thereof till the morning; when one of the assistants using some pathetical passages of the loss of such a governour in a time of such danger as did hang over us, from the Indians and French, the governour brake forth into tears, and professed, that howsoever the causes propounded for his departure were such as did concern the utter ruin of his outward estate, yet he would rather have hazarded all, than have gone from them at this time, if something else had not pressed him more, viz. the inevitable danger he saw of God's judgments to come upon us for these differences and dissensions, which he saw amongst us, and the scandalous imputations brought upon himself, as if he should be the cause of all; and ...
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