Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Rev. William Richards, LL.D.: Who Died at Lynn, September 13, 1819 [i.e. 1818] in the Sixty-ninth Year of His Age : with Some Account of the Rev. Roger Williams, Founder of the State of Rhode Island, as Well as the First Assertor of Complete Religious Liberty in the United States of AmericaCharles Whittingham ... ; sold by Sherwood, Neely, and Jones ... T. Wiche ... and D. Eaton ..., London, 1819 - 396 pages |
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Page 130
Persecution with its hideous scroll , on which are inscribed pains and penalties in
crimson characters of blood , hath been altogether subversive of it . Nor has the
modern antichristian anathema made a nearer approach to its attainment .
Persecution with its hideous scroll , on which are inscribed pains and penalties in
crimson characters of blood , hath been altogether subversive of it . Nor has the
modern antichristian anathema made a nearer approach to its attainment .
Page 133
PERSECUTION , so far as regards the infliction of pains and penalties for matters
of religion , is for the most part at an end in this highly favoured country . But the
envenomed clamour of the tongue who can silence MR . WILLIAM RICHARDS .
PERSECUTION , so far as regards the infliction of pains and penalties for matters
of religion , is for the most part at an end in this highly favoured country . But the
envenomed clamour of the tongue who can silence MR . WILLIAM RICHARDS .
Page 154
Ye , too — who have suffered PERSECUTION for the sake of righteousness —
who have nobly fought , and bravely died in defence of truthyes , ye fanned your
holy ambition - ye nerved your high and generous resolves by the desire and
hope ...
Ye , too — who have suffered PERSECUTION for the sake of righteousness —
who have nobly fought , and bravely died in defence of truthyes , ye fanned your
holy ambition - ye nerved your high and generous resolves by the desire and
hope ...
Page 178
A memorial dedicated to the singular merits of a faithful confessor , and laborious
servant of Christ , who , with true christian fortitude , endured persecution through
many perils , the loss of friends and substance , and ten imprisonments for ...
A memorial dedicated to the singular merits of a faithful confessor , and laborious
servant of Christ , who , with true christian fortitude , endured persecution through
many perils , the loss of friends and substance , and ten imprisonments for ...
Page 179
About that time , or a few months earlier , the congregation at Lynn became the
objects of persecution from the ruling powers here . They were proceeded
against upon the Conventicle act , although both their place of worship and their
minister ...
About that time , or a few months earlier , the congregation at Lynn became the
objects of persecution from the ruling powers here . They were proceeded
against upon the Conventicle act , although both their place of worship and their
minister ...
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| Title | Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Rev. William Richards, LL.D.: Who Died at Lynn, September 13, 1819 [i.e. 1818] in the Sixty-ninth Year of His Age : with Some Account of the Rev. Roger Williams, Founder of the State of Rhode Island, as Well as the First Assertor of Complete Religious ... |
| Author | John Evans |
| Publisher | Charles Whittingham ... ; sold by Sherwood, Neely, and Jones ... T. Wiche ... and D. Eaton ..., London, 1819 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 23 Jun 2006 |
| Length | 396 pages |
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