The New-England Primer: A History of Its Origin and Development : with a Reprint of the Unique Copy of the Earliest Known Edition and Many Fac-simile Illustrations and ReproductionsPaul Leicester Ford |
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Page 1 - It is therefore ordered, That every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Page 24 - A Compleat Body of Divinity, in Two Hundred and Fifty Expository Lectures on the Assembly's Shorter Catechism...
Page 195 - Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith...
Page 1 - J>iect of ye ould deluder, Satan, to keepe men from the knowledge of ye Scriptures, as in formr times by keeping ym in an unknowne tongue, so in these lattr times by ]?swading from ye use of tongues, y...
Page 30 - Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep ; If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take ; And this I ask for Jesus
Page 10 - Is whipt at School. As runs the Glass Man's Life doth pass. My Book and Heart Shall never part. Job feels the rod Yet blesses GOD. Our KING the good No man of blood.