The History of Missions: Or, Of the Propagation of Christianity Among the Heathen, Since the Reformation, Volume 1B. Coles V.D.M., 1816 - Bible |
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... residence in that quarter , by setting afloat a few flowers , and a small piece of money in cocoa - nut shells ; and if it was the evening , they also put oil into them with little wicks , and set them to burn on the water . After pre ...
... residence in that quarter , by setting afloat a few flowers , and a small piece of money in cocoa - nut shells ; and if it was the evening , they also put oil into them with little wicks , and set them to burn on the water . After pre ...
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... residence , and are so intermarried with blacks and whites , that it is next to impossible to ascertain the precise number who may still remain . In 1797 , it was supposed there were about twenty of the Natick Indians who were of pure ...
... residence , and are so intermarried with blacks and whites , that it is next to impossible to ascertain the precise number who may still remain . In 1797 , it was supposed there were about twenty of the Natick Indians who were of pure ...
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... residence , both in order to the evangelizing and ci- vilization of them , Mr. Bourne , about the year 1660 , procur- ed for them , it is said at his own expensé , a grant of land at Mashpee , a place about fifty miles from Boston ; and ...
... residence , both in order to the evangelizing and ci- vilization of them , Mr. Bourne , about the year 1660 , procur- ed for them , it is said at his own expensé , a grant of land at Mashpee , a place about fifty miles from Boston ; and ...
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... residence ; nor do they , on the whole , seem to have decreased in number in the course of the following century , for in 1794 , there were still at Mashpee between eighty and ninety In- dian houses . The race , indeed , was mixed , but ...
... residence ; nor do they , on the whole , seem to have decreased in number in the course of the following century , for in 1794 , there were still at Mashpee between eighty and ninety In- dian houses . The race , indeed , was mixed , but ...
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... residence among a savage and barbarous people . " I should be asha- med , " said he , " to call myself a Christian , or even a man , and yet refuse to do what lay in my power to cultivate hu- manity among a people naturally ingenious ...
... residence among a savage and barbarous people . " I should be asha- med , " said he , " to call myself a Christian , or even a man , and yet refuse to do what lay in my power to cultivate hu- manity among a people naturally ingenious ...
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Page 41 - God: and thou shalt teach them the statutes and the laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do. Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens...
Page 318 - And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the Word of His grace, Which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
Page 103 - And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
Page vii - And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three Sabbath days reasoned with them out of the Scriptures ; opening and alleging, " that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead ; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.
Page 311 - For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom : but we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling-block, and unto the Greeks foolishness : but unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
Page 202 - ... who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sin, should live unto righteousness : by whose stripes ye were healed.
Page 190 - For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.
Page 154 - After the tower had proceeded some way, a pilgrim announced that he was ready to offer himself a sacrifice to the idol. He laid himself down in the road before the tower, as it was moving along, lying on his face, with his arms stretched forwards. The multitude passed round him, leaving the space clear, and he was crushed to death by the wheels of the tower. A shout of joy was raised to the god. He is said to smile when the libation of the blood is made.
Page 44 - And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD ; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.