A History of the Cutter Family of New England

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D. Clapp & Son, 1871 - Reference - 363 pages
 

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Page 11 - God to call me hence, do therefore make and publish this my last will and testament in manner and form following, that is to say, First and principally, I commit my soul into the hands of Almighty God, and my body to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executors...
Page 81 - First, I commend my soul into the hands of God my Creator, hoping and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting, and my body to the earth whereof it is made.
Page 334 - Nor pain, nor grief, nor anxious fear Invade thy bounds: no mortal woes Can reach the peaceful sleeper here, While angels watch the soft repose.
Page 342 - I blow the bellows, I forge the steel, In all the shops of trade ; I hammer the ore, and turn the wheel, Where my arms of strength are made ; I manage the furnace, the mill, the mint ; I carry, I spin, I weave ; And all my doings I put into print On every Saturday eve.
Page 26 - Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry ; Hold not thy peace at my tears : For I am a stranger with thee, And a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
Page 163 - That, when we shall have served thee in our generation, we may be gathered unto our fathers, having the testimony of a good conscience ; in the communion of the catholic Church ; in the confidence of a certain faith ; in the comfort of a reasonable, religious, and holy hope ; in favour with thee our God, and in perfect charity with the world.
Page 342 - The mountain's steep decline; Time, space, have yielded to my power, The world — the world is mine! . The rivers the sun hath earliest blest, Or those where his beams decline, The giant streams of the queenly West, Or the Orient floods divine.
Page 382 - See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; in that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his...
Page 342 - The wind lags after my flying forth, The lightning is left behind. In the darksome depths of the fathomless mine My tireless arm doth play, Where the rocks ne'er saw the sun's decline, Or the dawn of the glorious day.
Page 342 - At the childish boast of human might, And the pride of human power. When I saw an army upon the land, A navy upon...

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