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The glory of goodness. The goodness of God celebrated; in remarkable instances and improvements…
The glory of goodness. The goodness of God celebrated; in remarkable instances and improvements thereof: and more particularly in the redemption remarkably obtained for the English captives, which have been languishing under the tragical, and the terrible and the most barbarous cruelties of barbary. : [Six lines from Psalms]
printed by T. Green for Benjamin Eliot, 1703
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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
If they cannot say, The Barbarous people showed us no little Kindness, yet some happy Things fell out now & then, to shelter them from some Unkindnesses as would else have been offered.
If they cannot say, The Barbarous people show'd us no little Kindness, yet some happy Things fell out now & then, to shelter them from some Ʋnkindnesses as would else have been offered.
Behold, A Support from the Goodness of God!
It was a mighty Relief unto them▪ that the English Captives there formed themselves into a SOCIETY, and in their Slavery enjoyed the Lib•••y to meet on the Lords Day Evening, every Week & annually choose a Master and Assistants, and form a Body of Laws, to prevent and suppress Disorders among themselves. The Good Orders of their Society, were a great Reputation, and Preservation unto them. And it afforded them no small Comforts to delight them, in the multitude of the Griefs upon them, that at their Meetings they still had one or other, who by his Prayers, and other Exercises of Religion among them, greatly Edified them.
It was a mighty Relief unto them▪ that the English Captives there formed themselves into a SOCIETY, and in their Slavery enjoyed the Lib•••y to meet on the Lords Day Evening, every Week & annually chuse a Master and Assistents, and form a Body of Laws, to prevent and suppress D•sorders among themselves. The Good Orders of their Society, were a great Reputation, and Preservation unto them. And it afforded them no small Comforts to delight them, in the multitude of the Griefs upon them, that at their Meetings they still had one or other, who by his Prayers, and other Exercises of Religion among them, greatly Edified them.