The Claims of Puritanism: A Sermon Preached at the Annual Election, May 31, 1826. Before His Excellency, Levi Lincoln, Governor. The Honorable Council, and the Legislature of Massachusetts |
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76 H STALL action shall never admitted amidst ancestry assembled assert beware lest bye-word cause of modern cents a day centuries Chap character and claims CHARGE This book Church claims of Puritanism Commonwealth conduct DARK SAY day is incurred disinterestedness England Father's virtues Fathers fear ferings five cents forest H STALL STUDY held conflict Historian HONORABLE COUNCIL House of Commons howling human improvement incurred by retaining intelligence it-that JUM 76 H knowledge land last date stamped Let us beware liberal party mankind Massachusetts memory mighty mind Modern freedom name of Puritan nations noble old world Parliament peculiar period piety pilgrim Plymouth pray prayer preju principles Puritan party PURITANISM IN AMERICA reign religion remembered return promptly savage scarcely SERMON shore simple dissent solemn speak spirit STALL STUDY CHARGE thought tion toiled tuous unexampled moderation weapon of defence weary wild wilderness worship write their history
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Page 22 - The historic muse, Proud of the treasure, marches with it down To latest times ; and Sculpture, in her turn, Gives bond in stone and ever-during brass To guard them, and to immortalize her trust...
Page 12 - God and the soul, and the palladium of Protestantism to be in danger. " Some men," says Hume, " of the greatest parts and most extensive knowledge that the nation at this time produced could not enjoy any peace of mind because obliged to hear prayers offered up to a Divinity by a priest covered with a white linen vestment.
Page 20 - And you my loving friends the adventurers to this plantation ; as your care has been, first to settle religion here, before either profit or popularity, so I pray you, go on, to do it much more...
Page 19 - It may be interesting, and it is to my purpose to notice, that the first printed Sermon* which we hear of as preached in this Country, was on this remarkable te'xt—" Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth...
Page 3 - Shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, And His strength, and His wonderful works that He hath done.
Page 26 - ... lay in firm sinews and courageous hearts ; and with these they turned back the course of ages. Pilgrims from the old world, they became inheritors of the new. They set up the standard of Christianity ; they opened the broad pathways of knowledge ; the forest melted away before them, like a dark vapour of the morning ; the voice of comfort, the din of business, went back into its murmuring solitudes; the wilderness and solitary place were glad for them ; the desert rejoiced and blossomed as the...
Page 26 - ... murmuring solitudes; the wilderness and solitary place were glad for them ; the desert rejoiced and blossomed as the rose. We might almost take the description of it from the language of prophecy. The lamb lies down in the den of the wolf; and where the wild beast prowled, is now the grazing ox. " The cow and the bear feed, and their young ones lie down together. The suckling child plays on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child puts his hand on the adder's den.
Page 25 - They came to the land where fifty centuries had held their reign, with no pen to write their history. Silence, which no occupation of civilized life had broken, was in all its borders, and had been from the creation. The lofty oak had grown through its lingering age, and decayed, and perished, without name or record. The storm had risen and roared in the wilderness; and none had caught its sublime inspiration. The fountains had flowed on ; the mighty .river had poured its useless waters ; the cataract...
Page 3 - I will open my mouth in a parable ! I will utter dark sayings of old : Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us.
Page 15 - ... that mighty truth of the age, that men should be left freely to work out their own welfare. Through all the borders of this continent there is not a mind, I had almost said, that is not glowing with pride at what has been accomplished, or with expectation of what is to come. Never, I repeat, since the introduction of Christianity, has the intellect, the improvement, the hope of the world received such an impulse, as it has received from the cause of modern freedom. Be it, then, remembered...