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A present from a far country, to the people of New England. I. A…A present from a farr countrey, to the people of New England. I. A…
A present from a far country, to the people of New England. I. A great voice from heaven, to these parts of the earth: in an excellent letter full of divine rarities, lately written from a terrible prison in France; / by a pious confessor of the reformed religion, once an inhabitant of this country. ; (With some late remarkables, of the persecution, upon the reformed in that kingdom.) II. The golden bells of the great high priest, heard from heaven, through the land. Or, Meditations, upon the methods of grace, wherein a few faithful persons may be the happy instruments of delivering a land, from all its iniquities & calamities.A present from a farr countrey, to the people of New England. I. A great voice from heaven, to these parts of the earth: in an excellent letter full of divine rarities, lately written from a terrible prison in France; / by a pious confessor of the reformed religion, once an inhabitant of this countrey. ; (With some late remarkables, of the persecution, upon the reformed in that kingdom.) II. The golden bells of the great high priest, heard from heaven, through the land. Or, Meditations, upon the methods of grace, wherein a few faithful persons may be the happy instruments of delivering a land, from all its iniquities & calamities.
Boston: printed by B. Green for Michael Perry, 1698
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But while I thus Tender unto the Churches of New-England, the Rich Monument of Christianity, here faithfully Translated, by Mr. Nehemiah Walter, the worthy Minister of Roxbury, I have doubtless herein merited a Leave to Express, unto the French Protestants among us, our Concern, that there may not be found among Them, any thing, that shall be Contrary to, and Condemned by, that Spirit, by which one of these Number has been thus Inspired. I take Leave then, to say,
Mes Friars,
Mes Freres,
L'Esprit du Christianism, Exprime par La Lettre de nostre Ami, est fort Eclatant, et glorieux.
L'Esprit du Christianisme, Exprime par La Lettre de nostre Ami, est fort Eclatant, et glorieux.
Par la Publication de cette Lettre, traduite en la Langue Angloise, nos Anglois verront parmi vous, une tres grande Demonstration, de la Religion Chretien.
Par la Publication de cette Lettre, traduite en la Langue Angloise, nos Anglois verront parmi vous, une tres grande Demonstration, de la Religion Chretienne.