Bradford's History of the Plymouth Settlement 1608-1650: Rendered Into Modern EnglishJohn McBride Company, 1909 - 349 páginas |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
aboard adventurers afterwards agreed Allerton amongst arrived ashore Beauchamp beaver began blessing boat Bradford brought called Cape Captain Standish church colony corn danger debts desire Dutch Edward Winslow England English expense fear further gave give God's godly Governor hands harbour Hatherley Holland honour hope Indians Isaac Allerton James Sherley John Carver John Endicott John Robinson JOHN WINTHROP land letter Leyden lived London Lord loving friend Lyford Massachusetts Narragansetts never offence ourselves partners party patent peace Pequots persons pinnace plantation Plymouth Plymouth Colony providence ready received rest Robert Cushman Samuel Fuller sent settled settlement settlers shallop sold Southampton Squanto supplies things thought tion told took trade trouble Uncas Virginia voyage Weston White Angel William Bradford William Brewster William Pierce Winslow wished
Pasajes populares
Página 75 - Virginia, do, by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid ; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony; unto which we promise all due...
Página 312 - God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; and to you who are troubled rest with us; when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels. In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ...
Página 65 - For summer being done, all things stand upon them with a weatherbeaten face, and the whole country, full of woods and thickets, represented a wild and savage hue. If they looked behind them, there was the mighty ocean which they had passed and was now as a main bar and gulf to separate them from all the civil parts of the world.
Página 75 - Faith &c. having undertaken for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our King and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the Northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God, and of one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic...
Página 316 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Página 64 - Being thus arrived in a good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of Heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stable earth, their proper element.
Página 78 - That neither he nor any of his should injure or do hurt to any of their people.
Página 66 - Yea, let them which have been redeemed of the Lord, shew how He hath delivered them from the hand of the oppressor. When they wandered in the desert wilderness out of the way, and found no city to dwell in, both hungry and thirsty, their soul was overwhelmed in them. Let them confess before the Lord His lovingkindness and His wonderful works before the sons of men.
Página 28 - We are well weaned," added Robinson and Brewster, " from the delicate milk of our mother country, and inured to the difficulties of a strange land ; the people are industrious and frugal. We are knit together as a body in a most sacred covenant of the Lord, of the violation whereof we make great conscience, and by virtue whereof we hold ourselves straitly tied to all care of each other's good, and of the whole. It is not with us as with men whom small things can discourage.
Página 314 - Yet when the church had no other minister, he taught twice every Sabbath, and that both powerfully and profitably, to the great contentment of the hearers and their comfortable edification; yea, many were brought to God by his ministry.