 | Nathaniel Morton - Massachusetts - 1669 - 562 pages
...they being desirous rather to enlarge his Majesty's dominions, and to live under their natural prince. Fifthly and lastly. And which was not the least, a...unto others for the performance of so great a work.* These and such like were the true reasons of their removal, and not as some of their adversaries did,... | |
 | 874 pages
...make some way thereunto, for the propagating and advancement of the gospel of the kingdom of Jesus Christ in those remote parts of the world; yea, although they should be but as stepping stones unto others for the performance of so good a work." Eliot and the Mayhews, Sergeant... | |
 | Nathaniel Morton - Massachusetts - 1826 - 498 pages
...foundation, or at least to make some way thereunto for the propagating and advancement of the Cospel of the kingdom of Christ in those remote parts of the world, yea, although they should be but as stepping stones unto others for tl»e performance of so great a work.* These and such like were the... | |
 | Christian education - 1831 - 716 pages
...to make some way thereunto for the propagating and advancement of the gospel of the kingdom of Jesus Christ in those remote parts of the world ; yea, although they should be but as stepping stones unto others for the performance of so great a work."* Eliot and the Mayhews, Sergeant... | |
 | Clergy - 1832 - 372 pages
...to make some way thereunto for the propagating and advancement of the gospel of the kingdom of Jesus Christ in those remote parts of the world ; yea, although they should be but as stepping stones unto others for the performance of so great a work."* Eliot and the Mayhews, Sergeant... | |
 | Benjamin Hanbury - Congregationalism - 1839 - 628 pages
...being desirous rather to enlarge his Majesty's dominions, and to live under their natural prince.' " Fifthly, and lastly ; and which was not the least....unto others for the performance of so great a work.' " These, and such like, were the true reasons of their removal ; and not, as some of their adversaries... | |
 | Robert Walter Weir - Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) - 1843 - 22 pages
...departing from their parents. Fourthly : That their posterity would, in a few generations, become Dutch. Fifthly and lastly, and which was not the least, a...unto others for the performance of so great a work. The reasons of their removal, abovenamed, being debated first in private, and though weighty, were... | |
 | Thomas Winthrop Coit - New England - 1845 - 566 pages
...fourth reason. Let us now hear the venerable Secretary's fifth and last. V. — It is as follows : " Fifthly and lastly, and which was not the least, a...stepping-stones unto others, for the performance of a great work." Here we have something, which bears reason and charity and amiable humility on its front.... | |
 | American periodicals - 1845 - 636 pages
...rather was, " to enlarge his majesty's dominions, and to live under their natural prince." Moreover, " a great hope and inward zeal they had of laying some...unto others for the performance of so great a work." These reasons in favor of such an enterprise were first debated in private. The more they were weighed,... | |
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Lastly (and which was not least), a great hope and inward zeal they had of laying some good foundation, or at least to make some way thereunto, for the propagating and advancing the gospel of the kingdom of Christ in those remote parts of the world; yea,... 
