 | Timothy Hall, Timothy L. Hall - 1998 - 220 páginas
...inhabitants of their obligations under the social covenant made explicit by an oath of allegiance: "The covenant between you and us is the oath you have taken of us ... that we shall govern you and judge your causes by the rules of God's laws and our own."30 The laws... | |
 | Daniel Judah Elazar, John Kincaid - 2000 - 360 páginas
...office, the office itself was divine and received its authority directly from God, Winthrop declared: "The covenant between you and us is the oath you have...rules of God's laws and our own, according to our best skill."43 This means, in short, that the people are granted a power to consent to the covenant, but... | |
 | Isaac Backus, David Weston - 2001 - 564 páginas
...censurers of ours. We count him a good servant who breaks not his covenant. The covenant between us and you is the oath you have taken of us, which is to this...' that we shall govern you, and judge your causes, according to God's laws, and our own, according to our best skill.' As for our skill, you must run... | |
 | Keene F. Tiedemann - 2005 - 207 páginas
...God-focused culture, John Winthrop well phrased a summary of the evolving American social contract, "The covenant between you and us is the oath you have...God's laws and our own, according to our best skill." 25 The postmodern scholar, however, will be quick to the attack. "Late in the 19th and into the 20th... | |
 | Don Hawkinson - 2005 - 470 páginas
...make one another's condition our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together. The Covenant between you and us is the oath you have...govern you and judge your causes by the rules of God's law.20 Winthrop spoke of the need for sacrifice and unity among believers: There was a time when a... | |
 | David W. Hall - 2005 - 512 páginas
...perspective, viz.: "We count him a good servant who breaks not his covenant; the covenant between us and you is the oath you have taken of us, which is to this...purpose, 'that we shall govern you and judge your causes, according to God's laws, and our own, according to our best skill.'"59 If the magistrate "faile in... | |
 | George McKenna - 2007 - 454 páginas
...Emmet John Hughes, The Living Presidency (New York: Penguin Books, 1973), 273. Compare John Winthrop: "The covenant between you and us is the oath you have...govern you and judge your causes by the rules of God's law and our own, according to our best skill." Winthrop, "A Little Speech on Liberty" (1645), in Perry... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1853 - 570 páginas
...when you have continual experience of the like infirmities in yourselves and others. We account him a good servant, who breaks not his covenant. The covenant between you and us is in the oath you have taken of us, which is to this purpose, that we shall govern you and judge your... | |
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The covenant between you and us is the oath you have taken of us, which is to this purpose, that we shall govern you and judge your causes by the rules of God's laws and our own, according to our best skill. 
