A Biographical Memoir of the Rev. John Williams, First Minister of Deerfield, Massachusetts: With a Slight Sketch of Ancient Deerfield, and an Account of the Indian Wars in that Place and VicinityC.J.J. Ingersoll, 1837 - 127 pages |
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... I said I shall not see the Lord , even the Lord in the land of the living : I shall behold man no more , with the inhabitants of the world . " The leader of the Indians who took him was a Captain , who was killed shortly after by a shot ...
... I said I shall not see the Lord , even the Lord in the land of the living : I shall behold man no more , with the inhabitants of the world . " The leader of the Indians who took him was a Captain , who was killed shortly after by a shot ...
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Page 41 - Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Page 48 - For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups : and many other such like things ye do. 9 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
Page 72 - If any man sin," saith St. John, " we have an advocate with the Father, even Jesus Christ the righteous, and he is the propitiation for our sins.
Page 71 - For what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, and lose or forfeit his own self...
Page 14 - The eye that was sparkling, no longer is bright ; The arm of the mighty, death conquered its might ; The bosoms that once for their country beat high, — To those bosoms the sods of the valley are nigh. Sleep, soldiers of merit ! sleep, gallant of yore ! The hatchet is fallen, the struggle is o'er. While the fir-tree is green, and the wind rolls a wave, The tear-drop shall brighten the turf of the brave.
Page 31 - I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave : I am deprived of the residue of my years. I said, I shall not see the LORD, Even the LORD, in the land of the living : 20 I shall behold man no more With the inhabitants of the world.
Page 115 - Canada by the way of Otter Creek, leaving Connecticut River, &c. When they came near Otter Creek, they came upon some tracks of Albany Indians that were going to Canada ; — for in those times the Indians from Albany were wont to go a scalping, as they call it, to Canada.
Page 36 - Then Job arose, and rent his mantle and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, and said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither : the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away ; blessed be the name of the Lord.
Page 115 - Scatacook made his escape having loosed himself by some means from his cords &c., and altho he was psud the enemy could not recover him &c. As to the young Albany Mohawk, he was kept alive, being of their own nation (the french mohawks went from yr nation over to Canada for ye sak of ye romish religion), wn Mr.
Page 111 - I heard him pray after his own return from captivity without a remembrance of her; that God would return her to his sanctuary, and the enjoyment of the Gospel light and grace in that purity and simplicity in which it shines in our land. But in this it seemed as if he never could be denied; that God would not let her perish in Popish superstition and ignorance; but let her place be where it would, that he would, as he easily...