A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time: Early colonial literature, 1607-1764

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Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay (Hutchinson) Cortissoz
C. L. Webster, 1889
 

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Strana 204 - I, even I, am he that comforts thee ; who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and forgettest the Lord thy Maker?
Strana 11 - if I am, how can you claim what I to some afford ? Will you demand Grace at my hand, and challenge what is mine ? Will you teach me whom to set free, and thus my grace confine ? You sinners are, and such a share as sinners may expect, Such you shall have ; for I do save none but my own Elect.
Strana 4 - They rush from Beds with giddy heads, and to their windows run, Viewing this light, which shines more bright then doth the Noon-day Sun. Straightway appears (they see't with tears) the Son of God most dread; Who with his Train comes on amain to Judge both Quick and Dead. Before his face the
Strana 392 - the house of God, provoking his pure eyes by your sinful wicked manner of attending his solemn worship : yea, there is nothing else that is to be given as a reason why you do not this very moment drop down into hell. 0 sinner
Strana 56 - For though I had formerly used tobacco, yet I had left it ever since I was first taken. It seems to be a bait the devil lays to make men lose their precious time. I remember with shame how formerly, when I had taken two or three pipes, I was presently ready for another; such a
Strana 14 - But get away without delay, Christ pities not your cry : Depart to Hell, there may you yell, and roar Eternally. That word, Depart, maugre their heart, drives every wicked one, "With mighty pow'r, the self-same hour, far from the Judge's Throne. Away they're chast'd
Strana 428 - unborn inhabitants of America ! should this page escape its destined conflagration at the year's end, and these alphabetical letters remain legible,— when your eyes behold the sun after he has rolled the seasons round for two or three centuries more, you will know that in Anno Domini
Strana 123 - a gun which the deponents thought strong men could not with both hands lift up and hold out at the butt-end, as is usual. Indeed, one of these witnesses was over-perswaded by some persons to be out of the way upon GB's tryal; but he came afterwards with sorrow for
Strana 14 - the fire, , and vengeance feeds the flame With piles of Wood and Brimstone Flood, that none can quench the same,) With Iron bands they bind their hands, and cursed feet together, And cast them all both great and small, into that Lake for ever,
Strana 192 - 8r 1. Satterday, I dine at Mr. Stoddard's: from thence I went to Madam Winthrop's just at 3. Spake to her, saying, my loving wife died so soon and suddenly, 'twas hardly convenient for me to think of marrying again; however I came to this

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