A Historical Discourse, Delivered by Request, Before the Citizens of Farmington, November 4, 1840: In Commemoration of the Original Settlement of the Ancient Town, in 1640L. Skinner, 1841 - 99 sivua |
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Sivu 14 - If you stand for your natural corrupt liberties, and will do what is good in your own eyes, you will not endure the least weight of authority, but will murmur, and oppose, and be always striving to shake off that yoke ; but if you will be satisfied to enjoy such civil and lawful liberties, such as Christ allows you, then will you quietly and cheerfully submit unto that authority which is set over you, in all the administrations of it, for your good.
Sivu 15 - ... and obedience in their lawful administrations, not beholding in them the ordinariness of their persons, but God's ordinance for your good ; not being like the foolish multitude, who more honor the gay coat, than either the virtuous mind of the man, or the glorious ordinance of the Lord...
Sivu 14 - The great questions that have troubled the country are about the authority of the magistrates and the liberty of the people. It is yourselves who have called us to this office, and, being called by you, we have our authority from God...
Sivu 14 - There is a twofold liberty, natural (I mean as our nature is now corrupt) and civil or federal. The first is common to man with beasts and other creatures. By this, man, as he stands in relation to man simply, hath liberty to do what he lists; it is a liberty to evil as well as to good. This liberty is incompatible and inconsistent with authority, and cannot endure the least restraint...
Sivu 12 - ... it being as unnatural for a right New England man to live without an able ministry as for a smith to work his iron without a fire.
Sivu 15 - Lastly, whereas you are to become a body politic, using amongst yourselves civil government, and are not furnished with any persons of special eminency above the rest to be chosen by you into office of government...
Sivu 87 - With the testimony of a good conscience, in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, he had his conversation in the world.
Sivu 7 - If this be all your party hath to say, I will make them conform themselves, or else I will harry them out of the land, or else do worse.
Sivu 84 - Labor is growing into disrepute; and the time when the independent farmer and -reputable citizen could whistle at the tail of his plough with as much serenity as the cobler over his last, is fast drawing to a close.
Sivu 33 - an animated and pious divine." He was a Fellow of Harvard College, and was employed, in 1662, as one of a committee of four, to treat with New Haven in reference to a union with Connecticut. He had eleven children, one of whom, Mary, was married to the Rev. Mr. Pierpont of New Haven, and was the mother of Sarah, the wife of Jonathan Edwards. SAMUEL STONE* 1633—1663.