 Once hearing some of us laughing very freely, while, I suppose, he was better busied in his chamber above us, he came down and gravely said to us : " Cousins, I wonder you can be so merry, unless you are sure of your salvation...  Music in America - Page 389by Frédéric Louis Ritter - 1883 - 423 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Jedidiah Morse, Elijah Parish - New England - 1804 - 398 pages
...his study one day, he found the young people of the family laughing very freely, he gravely said, " Cousins, I "Wonder you can be so merry, unless you are sure of salvation." Mr. James Noyes was born in 1608, at Choulderton, of godly parents ; his father being minister... | |
 | Cotton Mather - New England - 1853 - 732 pages
...while, I suppose, he was better busied in hia chamber above us, he came down, and gravely said to us, 'Cousins, I wonder you can be so merry, unless you are sure of your salvation!* He was a very holy and heavenly-minded man, and as much mortified to the world as almost any in it.... | |
 | Cotton Mather - New England - 1855 - 676 pages
...while, I suppose, he was better busied in his chamber above us, he came down, and gravely said to us, 'Cousins, I wonder you can be so merry, unless you are sure of your salvation!' He was a very holy and heavenly-minded man, and as much mortified to the world as almost any in it.... | |
 | Cotton Mather - New England - 1855 - 680 pages
...while, I suppose, he was better busied in his chamber above us, he came down, and gravely said to us, 'Cousins, I wonder you can be so merry, unless you are sure of your salvation? He was a very holy and heavenly-minded man, and as much mortified to the world as almost any in it... | |
 | William Buell Sprague - Baptists - 1857 - 766 pages
...I suppose he was better busied in his chamber above us, he came down and gravely said to us, — ' Cousins, I wonder you can be so merry, unless you are sure of your salvation ! ' He was a very holy and heavenlyminded man, and as much mortified to the world as almost any in... | |
 | Moses Coit Tyler - American literature - 1878 - 670 pages
...vagabond." Her crime was that she had smiled in church. We read of a truly excellent minister, one Thomas Parker, who, hearing some young persons laughing...them with his sanctity: " Cousins, I wonder you can 1 C. Mather, " Magnalia," I. 192. 5 Thomas Shepard, Autobiography, in Young," Chron. Mass. Bay," 502,... | |
 | Moses Coit Tyler - American literature - 1878 - 332 pages
...vagabond." Her crime was that she had smiled in church. We read of a truly excellent minister, one Thomas Parker, who, hearing some young persons laughing...them with his sanctity: " Cousins, I wonder you can 1 C. Mather, " Magnalia," I. 192. * Thomas Shepard, Autobiography, in Young," Chron. Muss. Hay, "5o2,... | |
 | Moses Coit Tyler - American literature - 1890 - 664 pages
...vagabond." Her crime was that she had smiled in church. We read of a truly excellent minister, one Thomas Parker, who, hearing some young persons laughing...them with his sanctity : " Cousins, I wonder you can 1 C. Malhcr, " Magnalia," I. 192. * Thomas Shepard, Autobiography, in Young," Chron. Mass. Bay," 502,... | |
 | Moses Coit Tyler - American literature - 1879 - 320 pages
...vagabond." Her crime was that she h'ad smiled in church, j We read of a truly excellent minister, one Thomas Parker, who, hearing some young persons laughing...them with his sanctity : " Cousins, I wonder you can 1 C. Mather, " Magnalia," I. 192. * Thomas Shcpard, Autobiography, in Youttg," Chron. Mass. Bay," 5o2,... | |
 | Hingham (Mass. : Town) - Hingham (Mass.) - 1882 - 200 pages
...while I suppose he was better busied in his chamber above us, he came down, and gravely said to us : ' Cousins, I wonder you can be so merry, unless you are sure of your salvation.' " Not a song has come down to us from that time ; not a love poem ; not a strain of secular music.... | |
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