 | 1831 - 716 էջ
...known saying, uttered first, we believe, by William Stoughton, Governor of Massachusetts, in l(i!>2, "God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness." The family of Ames, who settled at Dedham, were descended from the celebrated Dr.... | |
 | 1832 - 372 էջ
...known saying, uttered first, we believe, by William Stoughton, Governor of Massachusetts, in 1692, "God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness." The family of Ames, who settled at Dedham, were descended from the celebrated Dr.... | |
 | Jasper Adams - 1833 - 90 էջ
...and well we may, for our ancestors were illustrious men. One of the colonial governors said in 1692, "God sifted a whole nation, that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness.'^ And the present Lord Chancellor of Great Britain has thus spoken of them :-" The... | |
 | Lemuel Shattuck - 1835 - 438 էջ
...their religious enjoyments and religious hopes. The remark, in reference to the whole colony, that " God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness," : might, with propriety, be applied to the resolute and pious fathers of this town.... | |
 | American education society - 1839 - 496 էջ
...reasons sufficient to affect the minds, hearts, and conduct of some of the best men that ever lived. Speaking of them, governor Stoughton remarked, "God sifted a whole nation that he might send a choice grain over into this wilderness." In accomplishing their object, " it was agreed by the English... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Upham - 1842 - 74 էջ
...this great Work Were singularly adapted to it. It was as truly as beautifully said of them, that " God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness." They were learned, brave, just, and devout men. They had reached clearer and deeper... | |
 | 1847 - 498 էջ
...reasons sufficient to affect the minds, hearts, and conduct of some of the best men that ever lived. Speaking of them, Governor Stoughton remarked, ''...whole nation that he might send choice grain over into thi.-i wilderness." In accomplishing their object, "it was agreed by the English congregation at Leyden,... | |
 | 1847 - 462 էջ
...relate to the Fathers of New England, so that the present generation may distinctly understand, that "God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness.'1 It will also contain the genealogy of families which early settled the country.... | |
 | 1849 - 606 էջ
...that * In this admirable sermon, occurs, for the first time, aa we suppose, that classical saying : " God sifted a whole nation, that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness." our fathers would disown any of their evangelical descendants on grounds of doctrinal... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1859 - 872 էջ
...preached the annual election sermon in 1668, from which one striking expression is still remembered : " God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness." He was an agent for the colony at the court of Charles II., and was afterwards named... | |
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