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Page 1 - After God had carried us safe to New England, and wee had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our liveli-hood, rear'd convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civill government ; One of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity ; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Page 1 - Work; it pleased God to stir up the heart of one Mr. Harvard (a godly Gentleman and a lover of Learning, there living amongst us) to give the one halfe of his Estate (it being in all about ^1700) towards the erecting of a Colledge, and all his Library...
Page 1 - One of the next things we longed for, and looked after was to advance Learning, and perpetuate it to Posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate Ministery to the Churches, when our present Ministers shall lie in the Dust.
Page 65 - Being the time of the Yearly Meeting of the Children educated in the Charity Schools, in and about the Cities of London and Westminster.
Page 63 - A General Ecclesiastical History, from the Nativity of our blessed Saviour, to the first establishment of Christianity by human laws, under the emperor Constantine the Great ; containing the space of about...
Page 9 - Have you a Parochial Library? If you have, are the books preserved, and kept in good condition? Have you any particular rules and orders for the preserving of them ? Are those rules and orders duly observed ? " I am anxious to find an " original " giving the date of the above for any New York churches.
Page 65 - To which is annexed, an account of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. London: Printed by JRW Oliver; sold by B.
Page 68 - A Defence of the validity of the English Ordinations, and of the Succession of the Bishops in the Church of England : together with proofs justifying the facts advanced in this treatise.
Page 63 - John. The knowledge of divine things from revelation, not from reason or nature.
Page 15 - The press here never had so full employ before, nor were people ever so busy in reading.