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... conceived , laboured to stirr up and in- courage the rest to undertake and prosecute the same ; others , againe , out of their fears , objected against it , and sought to diverte from it , aledging many things , and those neither un ...
... conceived , laboured to stirr up and in- courage the rest to undertake and prosecute the same ; others , againe , out of their fears , objected against it , and sought to diverte from it , aledging many things , and those neither un ...
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... conceive why any should carie servants for their own help and comfort ; for that we can require no more of them then all men one of another . This we have only by relation from ' Thomas Nash was one of the Leyden church but nothing more ...
... conceive why any should carie servants for their own help and comfort ; for that we can require no more of them then all men one of another . This we have only by relation from ' Thomas Nash was one of the Leyden church but nothing more ...
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... conceive I any great good would come of it . Take then , brethern , this as a step to give you contente . First , for your dislike of the alteration of one clause in the conditions , if you conceive it right , " In Gov. Bradford's ...
... conceive I any great good would come of it . Take then , brethern , this as a step to give you contente . First , for your dislike of the alteration of one clause in the conditions , if you conceive it right , " In Gov. Bradford's ...
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... conceived betweene us . But seing it faleth out that we cannot conferr togeather , we thinke it meete ( though brefly ) to show you the just cause and reason of our differing from those articles last made by Robart Cushman , with- out ...
... conceived betweene us . But seing it faleth out that we cannot conferr togeather , we thinke it meete ( though brefly ) to show you the just cause and reason of our differing from those articles last made by Robart Cushman , with- out ...
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... conceive your selves wronged as well as we , we thought meete to add a branch to the end of our 9. article , as will allmost heale that wound of it selfe , which you conceive to be in it . But that it may appeare to all men that we are ...
... conceive your selves wronged as well as we , we thought meete to add a branch to the end of our 9. article , as will allmost heale that wound of it selfe , which you conceive to be in it . But that it may appeare to all men that we are ...
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Page 156 - And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.
Page 95 - ... was the same unto him. But hear I cannot but stay and make a pause, and stand half amased at this poore peoples presente condition; and so I thinke will the reader too, when he well considers the same. Being thus passed the vast ocean, and a sea of troubles...
Page 130 - Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God...
Page 238 - Indeans, they spent it as vainly, in quaffing and drinking both wine and strong waters in great exsess, and, as some reported, 10 It.
Page 105 - Occasioned partly by the discontented and mutinous speeches that some of the strangers amongst them had let fall from them in the ship: That when they came ashore they would use their own liberty, for none had power to command them...
Page 110 - ... tooles that were stolen away before, and made way for the coming of their great Sachem, called Massasoyt; who, about 4. or 5. days after, came with the cheefe of his freinds and other attendance, with the aforesaid Squanto. With whom, after frendly entertainment, and some gifts given him, they made a peace with him (which hath now continued this 24. years) in these terms.
Page 172 - Concerning the killing of those poor Indians, of which we heard at first by report, and since by more certain relation. Oh, how happy a thing had it been, if you had converted some, before you had killed any; besides where blood is once begun to be shed, it is seldom staunched of a long time after.
Page 107 - Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid...
Page 108 - And of these, in the time of most distress, there was but six or seven sound persons who to their great commendations, be it spoken, spared no pains night nor day, but with abundance of toil and hazard of their own health, fetched them wood, made them fires, dressed them meat, made their beds, washed their loathsome clothes, clothed and unclothed them.
Page 108 - ... their inacomodate condition had brought upon them; so as ther dyed some times 2 or 3 of a day, in the aforesaid time; that of 100 and odd persons, scarce 50 remained.