| George Bancroft - 1844 - 514 páginas
...they rested their first frame of government on a simple plantation covenant, that " all of them would be ordered by the rules which the Scriptures held forth to them." A title to lands was obtained by a treaty with the natives, whom they protected against the Mohawks.... | |
| Robert Baird - 1844 - 552 páginas
...prayer, they laid the foundation of their civil government by simply covenanting that " all of them would be ordered by the rules which the Scriptures held forth to them." A title to their lands was purchased from the Indians. The following year, these disciples of " Him... | |
| E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1004 páginas
...magistrates and officers, making and repealing laws, dividing allotments of inheritance, and all things of a like nature, they would all of them, be ordered by the rules which the scripture held forth to them." § 69. They continued to act under this agreement until 1639, when,... | |
| 1837 - 588 páginas
...gathering and ordering of a church, so also in all public offices which concern civil order, as the choice of magistrates and officers, making and repealing...like nature, they would all of them be ordered by the ruleswhich the scripture held forth to them." This was adopted as a general agreement, until there... | |
| 1849 - 624 páginas
...pilgrims, they had solemnly engaged, that, in their civil as well as in their religious concerns, " they would all of them be ordered by the rules which the Scriptures do hold forth." Some of the first settlers of New Haven were Millenarians, or believers that the second... | |
| 1849 - 516 páginas
...Plymouth pilgrims, they had solemnly engaged, that, in their aivil as well as in their religious concerns, "they would all of them be ordered by the rules which the Scriptures do hold forth." J^ome of the first settlers of New Haven were Millenarians, or believers that the second... | |
| Amzi Benedict Davenport - 1851 - 420 páginas
...formed and subscribed what they denominated a " plantation covenant." By this instrument they engaged "that as in matters that concern the gathering and...would all of them be ordered by the rules which the Scripture held forth to * Life of John Davenport by Eev. Mr. M'Clure, p. 276. them." This may be considered... | |
| George Bancroft - 1853 - 510 páginas
...they rested their first frame of government on a simple plantation covenant, that " all of them would be ordered by the rules which the Scriptures held forth to them." A title to lands was obtained by a treaty with the natives, whom they protected against the Mohawks.... | |
| George Bancroft - 1854 - 550 páginas
...they rested their first frame of government on a simple plantation covenant, that " all of them would be ordered by the rules which the Scriptures held forth to them." A title to lands was obtained by a treaty with the natives, whom they protected against the Mohawks.... | |
| Joseph Barlow Felt - 1855 - 758 páginas
...close of a day for fasting and prayer, into a plantation covenant. In this instrument, they agree, " that as in matters that concern the gathering and...the rules which the Scriptures held forth to them." August 28. Winthrop* states leading thoughts which he had written to Hooker, — that the Connecticut... | |
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