| 1878 - 646 páginas
...the Gospel, fifty years before that Society came into being. This Act is intituled, 'A Corporation for the Promoting and Propagating the Gospel of Jesus Christ in New England ; ' and its preamble, though somewhat lengthy, is so interesting as a record of the thoughts of the... | |
| Henry Martyn Dexter - 1880 - 1110 páginas
...of London, etc., 1479 concerning the League and Covenant, etc. 40. B. [Pamph. 91.] 1649. jln '-Ail For the promoting and propagating the Gospel of Jesus Christ in New England, fol. pp. 6. 1480 1649. Eikon Atitkir&i The Portraiture of Truths most Sacred Majesty, truly suffering,... | |
| 1881 - 424 páginas
...July, 1649, an act or ordinance was passed by the Long Parliament with this title : " A Corporation for the Promoting and Propagating the Gospel of Jesus Christ in New England." It enacted that there should be a corporation in England consisting of sixteen persons, namely, a president,... | |
| 1884 - 510 páginas
...and commissioner of the new colony. In London he was instrumental in founding, in 1648, the " Society for the Promoting and Propagating the Gospel of Jesus Christ in New England," under the presidency of Judge William Steele, and was one of the fourteen assistants or governing body... | |
| Joseph H. Beale - 1884 - 1152 páginas
...about this period. A society had been formed in 1649 under an act of parliament of the commonwealth, " for the promoting and propagating the Gospel of Jesus Christ in New England." It subsisted till after the restoration ; but in that period— one of the decline of genuine Christianity... | |
| Henry William Busk - 1884 - 104 páginas
...Parliament, that on 27 July, 1649, an Act or Ordinance * was passed with this title : " A Corporation for the Promoting and Propagating the Gospel of Jesus Christ in New England." This Ordinance recited that the Commons of England in Parliament assembled had revived certain intelligence... | |
| George Smith - 1887 - 434 páginas
...Courtenhall," sent a petition which, with the "Eliot Tracts," resulted in an ordinance creating the Corporation for the Promoting and Propagating the Gospel of Jesus Christ in New England. Seventy English ministers had backed the petition, and six of the Church of Scotland, first of whom... | |
| Daniel Dorchester - 1888 - 854 páginas
...forward such a work begun." After two years' delay, in 1649 an act was passed entitled, " A Corporation for the Promoting and Propagating the Gospel of Jesus Christ in New England." This ordinance set forth that Divers heathen natives of New England had, through the blessing of God... | |
| 1888 - 380 páginas
...Parliament ; and on July 27, 1649, an Act or Ordinance was passed with this title : — ' A Corporation for the Promoting and Propagating the Gospel of Jesus Christ in New England.' The preamble of the Act is worth quoting. It recites that — ' The Commons of England in Parliament... | |
| James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - 1888 - 848 páginas
...well as the salaries of those engaged in labors among the Indians, was defrayed by " A Corporation for the Promoting and Propagating the Gospel of Jesus Christ in New England," established in London in 1649. In 1653 or 1654 Mr. Eliot's Catechism, probably the first book in the... | |
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