| John Gorham Palfrey - New England - 1873 - 444 pages
...as seemed fit to be committed to a formal record, are set forth in the preamble to the Articles. " Whereas we all came into these parts of America with...purity with peace; — and whereas in our settling (by a wise providence of God) we are further dispersed upon the sea-coast and rivers than was at first... | |
| John Wingate Thornton - Massachusetts - 1874 - 138 pages
...were entered into under the name of "The United Colonies of New England."4 The preamble recites that "whereas, we all came into these parts of America with one and the same end and ayme, . . . are encompassed with people of several nations and strange languages, . . . and . . . seeing... | |
| George Lowell Austin - Massachusetts - 1875 - 746 pages
...reads as follows : " We all came into these parts of America with one and the same end and aim, viz. : to advance the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ, and...liberties of the gospel in purity with peace ; and whereas by our settling, by the wise providence of God, we are further dispersed upon the sea-coast and rivers... | |
| John Gorham Palfrey - New England - 1876 - 694 pages
...seemed fit to be committed to a formal record, are set forth in the preamble to the Articles 2 : — " Whereas we all came into these parts of America with...purity with peace ; — and whereas in our settling (by a wise providence of God) we are further dispersed upon the sea-coasts and rivers than was at first... | |
| Amzi Benedict Davenport - Biography & Autobiography - 1876 - 484 pages
...wilderness, yet fresh in our re* Pound in Trumbull's History of Connecticut, vol. i., 515. membrance,' were ' to advance the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ and...liberties of the Gospel in purity with peace ;' and these are 'the only ends we still pursue, having hitherto found by experience so much of the presence... | |
| Henry Allon - English periodicals - 1876 - 604 pages
...Colonies of New England. lay down, as the fundamental article of union, the following : — ' Whereas wee all came into these parts of America with one and the same end and ayme, namely, to advnuncc the kingdome of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to enjoy the liberties of the... | |
| Christianity - 1876 - 624 pages
...Colonies of New England, lay down, as the fundamental article of union, the following : — ' Whereas wee all came into ' these parts of America with one and the same end and ayme, ' namely, to advaunce the kiugdome of our Lord Jesus Christ, * ' Iu the hopo thereby to advance... | |
| Robert Charles Winthrop - United States - 1878 - 604 pages
...preamble is alone an ample reply to all who would magnify one Colony at the expense of another : — " Whereas we all came into these parts of America with...Jesus Christ and to enjoy the liberties of the Gospel m purity with peace : And whereas in our settling (by a wise providence of God) we are further dispersed... | |
| William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay - United States - 1878 - 762 pages
...Ihe same end and aim, the preamble recited, had brought Enitiami them into these parts of America, " to advance the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ, and...the liberties of the gospel in purity with peace." Their distance from each other was incompatible with a single government for all these plantations... | |
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