Vertoogh Van Nieu Nederland; and Breeden Raedt Aende Vereenichde Nederlandsche Provintien: Two Rare Tracts, Printed in 1964-'50. Relating to the Administration of Affairs in New Netherland |
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Page 126 - Wash you, make you clean ; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes ; cease to do evil ; 17. Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Page 187 - THIS know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
Page 126 - Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
Page 149 - Some were thrown into the river, and when the fathers and mothers endeavored to save them, the soldiers would not let them come on land, but made both parents and children drown, — children from five to six years of age, and also some old and decrepit persons.
Page 126 - If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land : But if ye refuse and rebel, Ye shall be devoured with the sword: For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Page 9 - There shall be a firm, inviolable and universal Peace, and sincere Friendship, between their High Mightinesses, the Lords the States General of the united Netherlands, and the United States of America; and between the Subjects and Inhabitants of the Said Parties, and between the Countries, Islands, Cities and Places, Situated under the Jurisdiction of the Said united Netherlands, and the said United States of America, their Subjects and Inhabitants, of...
Page 187 - Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. 9 But they shall proceed no further : for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.
Page 67 - From the first it has been declared that it should be repaired, laid in five angles, and put in royal condition. The commonalty's men have been addressed for money for the purpose, but they excused themselves on the ground that the people were poor.
Page 52 - Netherland, the registering of manors — in which business most of the Managers themselves engaged, and in reference to which they have regulated the trade, — and finally the not peopling the country. It seems as if from the first, the Company have sought to stock this land with their own employes, which was a great mistake, for when their time was out they returned home, taking nothing with them, except a little in their purses and a bad name for the country, in regard to its means of sustenance...
Page 81 - Stuyvesant imported and signified, when he said, " These brutes may hereafter endeavor to knock me down also, but I will manage it so now, that they will have their bellies full for the future." How it was managed, the result of the lawsuit can bear witness. They were compelled to pay fines, and were cruelly banished. In order that nothing should be wanting...