I write the Wonders of the Christian Religion, flying from the depravations of Europe, to the American Strand: and, assisted by the Holy Author of that Religion, I do, with all conscience of Truth, required therein by Him, who is the Truth... King's Handbook of Boston Harbor - Page 259by Moses Foster Sweetser - 1888 - 302 pagesFull view - About this book
| Henry Clay Sheldon - Church history - 1894 - 466 pages
...ESTABLISHMENTS. Cotton Mather begins his ecclesiastical history of New England with these words : " I write the wonders of the Christian religion, flying...the depravations of Europe to the American strand." Many writers besides, if they have not made use of equally grandiloquent phrase, have regarded the... | |
| George Rice Carpenter - American literature - 1898 - 494 pages
...a brave and worthy precursor of any braveries to come. BARRETT WENDELL THE CHURCHES OF NEW ENGLAND I WRITE the Wonders of the CHRISTIAN RELIGION, flying...the Depravations of Europe, to the American Strand : And, assisted by the Holy Author of that Religion, I do, with all Conscience of Truth, required therein... | |
| george rice carpenter - 1898 - 498 pages
...a brave and worthy precursor of any braveries to come. BARRETT WENDELL THE CHURCHES OF NEW ENGLAND I WRITE the Wonders of the CHRISTIAN RELIGION, flying...the Depravations of Europe, to the American Strand: And, assisted by the Holy Author of that Religion, I do, with all Conscience of Truth, required therein... | |
| Barrett Wendell - American literature - 1900 - 598 pages
...this mood the " Magnalia " was written. Its first sentence sounds the key-note of the whole : — " I write the Wonders of the Christian Religion, flying...the Depravations of Europe, to the American Strand: And, assisted by the Holy Author of that Religion, I do, with all Conscience of Truth, required therein... | |
| Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - American literature - 1901 - 392 pages
...the Year of our Lord 1698. It is primarily a church history, as the title and introduction indicate: "I WRITE the WONDERS of the CHRISTIAN RELIGION, flying...the depravations of Europe, to the American Strand; and, assisted by the Holy Author of that Religion, 1 do with all conscience of Truth, required therein... | |
| Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - American literature - 1901 - 390 pages
...the Year of our Lord 1698. It is primarily a church history, as the title and introduction indicate : "I WRITE the WONDERS of the CHRISTIAN RELIGION, flying...the depravations of Europe, to the American Strand; and, assisted by the Holy Author of that Religion, I do with all conscience of Truth, required therein... | |
| William Salter - Devotional calendars - 1904 - 196 pages
...sworn trusts, disobey those obligations without which society falls to pieces. WM Evarts. FEBRUARY 15. I write the wonders of the Christian Religion, flying from the depravations of Europe, and report the wonderful displays of power, wisdom, and goodness, wherewith Providence hath irradiated... | |
| Sarah Emma Simons - American literature - 1915 - 492 pages
...Christ in America. The first sentence quoted below sounds the note of the whole. (From the Magnalia) I write the Wonders of the Christian Religion, flying...the Depravations of Europe, to the American Strand: And, assisted by the Holy Author of that Religion, I do, with all Conscience of Truth, required therein... | |
| Perry Miller - History - 2009 - 260 pages
...clearly in Magnolia Christi Americana, the work of that soul most tortured by the problem, Cotton Mather: "I write the Wonders of the Christian Religion, flying...the Depravations of Europe, to the American Strand." Thus he proudly begins, and at once trips over the acknowledgment that the founders had not simply... | |
| Daniel J. Boorstin - Political Science - 1958 - 211 pages
...phrase of epic, which is, after all, a tale of heroic adventure. He begins with a paraphrase of Virgil, "I write the Wonders of the Christian Religion, flying...the depravations of Europe, to the American Strand." The epic parallel is never forgotten; the role of Aeneas and his Trojan warriors is played by John... | |
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