A History of the Church in Brattle Street, Boston

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W. Crosby and H. P. Nichols, 1851 - 217 pages
 

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Page 196 - The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us : that he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.
Page 49 - But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort ? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.
Page 150 - Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep ; If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take ; And this I ask for Jesus
Page 169 - I attended to, while in this school; but there was one thing I could not do. I could not make a declamation. I could not speak before the school. The kind and excellent Buckminster sought, especially, to persuade me to perform the exercise of declamation, like other boys ; but I could not do it Many a piece did I commit to memory, and recite and rehearse, in my own room, over and over again; yet when the day came, when the school collected to hear...
Page 49 - Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all. Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name.
Page 65 - The Importance and Necessity of Christians considering Jesus Christ in the Extent of his high and glorious Character ; a Sermon preached at the South Church in Boston. By Samuel Hopkins, AM, Minister of the Gospel in Great Harrington.
Page 31 - Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice: and the Lord hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments...
Page 31 - Lord hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people,' &c. See also Deut. xxix. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, ' You stand this day all of you before the Lord your God, that thou shouldest enter into covenant with the Lord thy God, that he may establish thee to-day for a people unto himself,
Page 21 - We judge it therefore most suitable and convenient, that in our Publick Worship some part of the Holy Scripture be read by the Minister at his discretion.
Page 2 - But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth ? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain 19 thee ; how much less this house which I have built...

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