Religion and Education in America: With Notices of the State and Prospects of American Unitarianism, Popery, and African Colonization |
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... French Huguenots into the Ame- rican colonies is an exceedingly interesting circum- stance in the history of the American people . It took place at a very early period in the history of these co- lonies ; and the immigration appears to ...
... French Huguenots into the Ame- rican colonies is an exceedingly interesting circum- stance in the history of the American people . It took place at a very early period in the history of these co- lonies ; and the immigration appears to ...
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... French Protestants who had settled at Oxford , in the same colony . In that year , also , the Rev. Cotton Mather informs us a French Protestant church was erected in the city of Boston , of which , about ten years thereafter , the Rev ...
... French Protestants who had settled at Oxford , in the same colony . In that year , also , the Rev. Cotton Mather informs us a French Protestant church was erected in the city of Boston , of which , about ten years thereafter , the Rev ...
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... French Protestants took place to all the American colonies . Large collections were made for them in England even * Hist , of Evang . Churches of N. York . during the reign of James II . , and a 20 ORIGIN OF THE INHABITANTS OF.
... French Protestants took place to all the American colonies . Large collections were made for them in England even * Hist , of Evang . Churches of N. York . during the reign of James II . , and a 20 ORIGIN OF THE INHABITANTS OF.
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... French refugees arrived in Virginia , and were afterwards followed by two hundred others , and subsequently by a hundred more . So late as the year 1752 , not fewer than sixteen hundred foreign Protestants , chiefly French , settled in ...
... French refugees arrived in Virginia , and were afterwards followed by two hundred others , and subsequently by a hundred more . So late as the year 1752 , not fewer than sixteen hundred foreign Protestants , chiefly French , settled in ...
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... French lan- guage still generally spoken by the people , and always used in their public worship . Now , however , there is no trace of the French language in that settlement . In like manner , in the city of Charleston , South Caro ...
... French lan- guage still generally spoken by the people , and always used in their public worship . Now , however , there is no trace of the French language in that settlement . In like manner , in the city of Charleston , South Caro ...
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Page 76 - For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.
Page 64 - I thank God there are no free schools, nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years ; for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both...
Page 47 - I am very confident, the Lord has more truth yet to break forth out of his holy word. For my part, I cannot sufficiently bewail the condition of the reformed churches, who are come to a period in religion, and will go, at present, no farther than the instruments of their reformation.
Page 73 - If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, And let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
Page 268 - In France I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom marching in opposite directions. But in America I found they were intimately united...
Page 355 - Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain : that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
Page 6 - God, the Supreme Lord and King of all the world, hath ordained civil magistrates to be under him, over the people, for his own glory and the public good, and to this end hath armed them with the power of the sword, for the defense and encouragement of them that are good, and for the punishment of evil-doers.
Page 63 - ... to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers in church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors.
Page 257 - The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other...
Page 307 - The greatest part of British America was peopled by men who, after having shaken off the authority of the Pope, acknowledged no other religious supremacy: they brought with them into the New World a form of Christianity, which I cannot better describe than by styling it a democratic and republican religion. This contributed powerfully to the establishment of a republic and a democracy in public affairs; and from the beginning, politics and religion contracted an alliance which has never been dissolved.