Thirteen Historical Discourses, on the Completion of Two Hundred Years: From the Beginning of the First Church in New Haven, with an Appendix |
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Page 1 - Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt : Thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, And it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river.
Page 20 - Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table. She...
Page 156 - And God is able to make all grace abound toward you ; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work : (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; He hath given to the poor; His righteousness remaineth for ever.
Page 241 - If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us : Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us...
Page 156 - Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness : 11 Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.
Page 134 - What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation ? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.
Page 283 - Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
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Page 265 - Say not thou. What is the cause that the former days were better than these ? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this.
Page 28 - All the free planters were called upon to express whether they held themselves bound to establish such civil order as might best conduce to the securing the purity and peace of the ordinances to themselves and their posterity, according to GOD.