 | Arthur Blake Ellis - 1881 - 502 pages
...PORTRAIT OF REV. NL FROTHINGHAM 252 PORTRAIT OF REV. RUFUS ELLIS 287 PRESENT CHURCH 313 INTRODUCTION. "TO PRACTISE THE POSITIVE PART OF CHURCH REFORMATION AND PROPAGATE THE GOSPEL IN AMERICA;" r I ^"HIS clearly defined and strongly worded statement, reiterated with variations of word and phrase... | |
 | Henry Wilder Foote - Congregationalism - 1900 - 600 pages
...Rome ! But we will say, Farewell dear England ! Farewell the Church of God in England, and all the Christian friends there ! We do not go to New England...reformation, and propagate the Gospel in America." * He concluded with a fervent prayer for the king, and for the Church and State in England. But the... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - Congregationalism - 1882 - 352 pages
...! ' but we will say, ' Farewell, dear England ; farewell, the Church of God in England, and all the Christian friends there ! ' We do not go to New England...practise the positive part of Church reformation, and to propagate the gospel in America." A number of separatists, however, amongst them Mr. Charles Smith,... | |
 | George Trumbull Ladd - Church polity - 1882 - 460 pages
...Higginson, when setting sail from the Isle of Wight, and bidding farewell to England, exclaimed, " We go to practise the positive part of church reformation, and propagate the gospel in America." The charter of Massachusetts made it the duty of the settlers " to win and incite the natives of that... | |
 | Christianity - 1883 - 554 pages
...! ' but we will say, ' Farewell, dear England, farewell, the Church of God in England, and all the Christian friends there ! ' We do not go to New England...practise the positive part of Church reformation and to propagate the gospel in America.* In the following year a much larger contingent prepared to set... | |
 | American periodicals - 1883 - 874 pages
...farewell, the Church of God in England, and all the Christian friends there ! " We do not go to Nno England as Separatists from the Church of England,...practise the positive part of Church reformation and to propagate the gospel in America.* In the following year a much larger contingent prepared to set... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1883 - 610 pages
...England, and all the Christian friends there! ' We do not go (o New England as Sepa-ratist» from (lie Church of England, though we cannot but separate from...practise the positive part of Church reformation and to propagate the gospel in America.* In the following year a much larger con-tingent prepared to set... | |
 | First Church (Cambridge, Mass.), First Parish (Cambridge, Mass.) - Cambridge (Mass.) - 1886 - 182 pages
...minister. It does not appear that they had intended to leave the Church of England. But they had come " to practise the positive part of church reformation, and propagate the Gospel in America." It was almost inevitable, it was certainly desirable, that they should become a Congregational church.... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - Literary Criticism - 1887 - 514 pages
...there. We do not go to New England as Separatists, though we cannot but separate from the corruptions of it. But we go to practise the positive part of church...reformation, and propagate the gospel in America." John Higginson, the son of Francis, was, like his father, an author as well as preacher for seventy-two... | |
 | Alexander Hutton Drysdale - Great Britain - 1889 - 666 pages
...CliarZestown, Boston, Cambridge, and other adjoining places, with JOHN WINTHROP as their Governor. corruptions in it. But we go to practise the positive...Reformation, and propagate the Gospel in America." 1 The charter of 1628, granted to this Presbyterian colony, has a very remarkable missionary declaration... | |
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Farewell, Babylon! Farewell, Rome ! but we will say, Farewell, dear England ! Farewell the Church of God in England, and all the Christian friends there ! We do not go to New England as Separatists from the Church of England; though we cannot but separate... 
