A History of the Town of Greenwich, Fairfield County, Conn: With Many Important StatisticsBaker & Godwin, printers, 1857 - 318 էջ |
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A History of the Town of Greenwich, Fairfield County, Conn: With Many ... Daniel M. Mead Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1857 |
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Էջ 99 - They hare abundance of odd kind of laws to prevent any dissenting from their church, and endeavor to keep the people in as much blindness and unacquaintedness with any other religion as possible ; but in a more particular manner the Church, looking upon her as the most dangerous enemy they have to grapple withal. And abundance of pains is taken to make the ignorant think as bad as possible of her. And I really believe that more than half the people in that government, think our Church to be little...
Էջ 57 - ... that the creek or river called Mamaroneck which is reputed to be about thirteen miles to the east of Westchester, and a line drawn from the east point or side where the fresh water falls into the salt, at high water mark, north-northwest to the line of the Massachusetts, be the western bounds of the said colony of Connecticut...
Էջ 100 - And no sooner was that honorable body settled, and those prudent measures taken for carrying on that great work, but the people of Connecticut, doubting of maintaining their ground without some further support, they with great industry went through their colony for subscriptions to build a College at a place called Seabrook. And the ministers, who are as absolute in their respective parishes as the Pope of Rome, argued, prayed, and preached up the necessity of it ; and the passive obedience people,...
Էջ 99 - ... opinion, and is so still, that there is no part of this Province, or even America, that would be of greater use or service to have the Church thoroughly settled in ; for it is not only large in extent, and the land very good, and near the city ; so, consequently, will in time be a great settlement.
Էջ 55 - The bounds upon the Main to begin at the West side of Greenwich Bay, being about four miles from Stamford, and so to run a northerly line, twenty miles up into the country, and after, as it shall be agreed, by the two governments of the Dutch and New Haven, provided the said line come not within ten miles of Hudson's River.
Էջ 97 - I have lately been in the government of Connecticut, where I observe some people well affected to the Church, for those that are near come to my parish on Sabbath days ; so that I am assured an itinerant Missionary might do great services in that province. Some of their Ministers have privately told me, that, had we a Bishop among us, they would conform and receive holy Orders ; from which, as well as on all the continent, the necessity of a Bishop will plainly appear.
Էջ 36 - Sucklings were torn from their mothers' breasts, butchered before their parents' eyes, and their mangled limbs thrown quivering into the river or the flames. Babes were hacked to pieces while fastened to little boards, — their primitive cradles, — others were thrown alive into the river, and when their parents...
Էջ 100 - ... the people lived so religiously and well as they ; yet I dare aver, that there is not a much greater necessity of having the Christian religion, in its true light, preached...
Էջ 101 - Mnirson will more fully inform you. And now I have given you an account of the state of that colony, what will in the next place be naturally expected from me, is to know my opinion of the best and most probable way of doing good amongst them. There is nothing more certain, than that it is the most difficult task the society have to wade through. For the people are not only not of the church, but have been and are trained up with all the care imaginable to be its enemies. That to make an impression...
Էջ 101 - Connecticut, and by the people bred and born under that government ; and some time before my coming they had a Minister, one Mr. Denham, and had afterwards two more, Woodbridge and Bowers, at Rye, and one Mr. Jones, at Bedford, and the people of Rye only had of this county the care to provide a parsonage house ; and notwithstanding all those great shows of religion, and that at such times as they were destitute of a Minister. Greenwich and...