The Library of American Biography, Volum 4Jared Sparks Harper, 1856 |
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Side 268 - Which convention is not properly to exercise the legislative power, but only to debate freely, and agree upon the particulars...
Side 236 - Then to advise how war may best, upheld, Move by her two main nerves, iron and gold, In all her equipage; besides, to know Both spiritual power and civil, what each means, What severs each, thou hast learned, which few have done. The bounds of either sword to thee we owe : Therefore on thy firm hand Religion leans In peace, and reckons thee her eldest son.
Side 396 - Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost its savour, wherewith shall it be salted ? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under foot of men.
Side 247 - He also published at this time a political work, in quarto, entitled " A Letter from a true and lawful Member of Parliament to one of the Lords of his Highness's Council." At length he was again brought before the public, under circumstances of considerable interest which I will proceed to explain. Cromwell had risen to power on the strength of that party in the nation, which consisted of the persons who were sincerely and deeply engaged in the subject of religion. He first brought himself into notice,...
Side 76 - I ordered the front line to advance and charge with trailed arms, and rouse the Indians from their coverts at the point of the bayonet, and when up, to deliver a close and well-directed fire on their backs, followed by a brisk charge, so as not to give them time to load again.
Side 248 - Cromwell published, on the 14th of March, 1656, a declaration, calling upon the people to observe a general fast for the purpose of " applying themselves to the Lord to discover the Achan, who had so long obstructed the settlement of these distracted kingdoms.
Side 152 - The churches take liberty (as lawfully they may) to receive or reject at their discretion ; yea, particular towns make orders to such effect ; why then should the commonwealth be denied the like liberty, and the whole more restrained than any part ? " The following was Vane's reply. " Though the question be here concluded, yet it is far from being soundly proved ; yea, in truth, we much wonder that any member of a church should be ignorant of the falseness of the groundwork, upon which this conclusion...
Side 393 - ... the kingdoms of this world shall become the kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ...
Side 43 - Were I to conclude my account of this day's transactions, without expressing my obligations to the officers of the army in general, I should do injustice to their merit, and violence to my own feelings. They seemed to vie with each other in manifesting their zeal and bravery. The catalogue of those, who distinguished themselves, is too long to admit of particularizing individuals. I cannot, however, forbear mentioning Brigadier-General Wayne, whose good conduct and bravery through the whole action...
Side 262 - In like manner he is to be a minister of terror and revenge to those that do evil in matters of outward practice, converse, and dealings in the things of this life between man and man, for the cause whereof the judicatures of men are appointed and set up. But to exceed these limits, as it is not safe nor warrantable for the magistrate (in that He who is higher...