American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Virginia House of Burgesses (August 4, 1619) narrative of Jamestown: <All ministers shall duly read Divine service, and exercise their ministerial function according to the Ecclesiastical laws and orders of the Church of England, and every Sunday in the afternoon shall Catechize such as are not yet ripe to come to the Communion. And whosoever of them shall be found negligent or faulty in this kind shall be subject to the censure of the Governor and Council of Estate. The Ministers and Churchwardens shall seek to present all ungodly disorders, the committers whereof if, upon good admonitions and mild reproof, they...

Virginia House of Burgesses (July 30, 1619) narrative of Speaker of the House, John Pory: <But, forasmuch as men's affairs do little prosper when God's service is neglected, all the Burgesses took their places in the Quire till prayer was said by Mr. Bucke, the Minister, that it would please God to guide and sanctify all our proceedings to His own glory, and the good of this plantation. Prayer being ended, to the intent that as we had begun at God Almighty so we might proceed awful and due respect toward his lieutenant... Be it enacted by this present Assembly that...

Charter of New England Petition (March 3, 1619) Petition for Charter of New England by the Northern Company of Adventurers: <May it please your most excellent Majesty...to give license for the establishing of two colonies in Virginia in America, the one called the First Colony undertaken by certain noblemen, knights, and merchants about London, the other called the Second Colony likewise undertaken by certain knights and merchants of the western parts... Some...have, at their great charge and extreme hazard, continued to endeavor...to bring to pass so noble a work, in the constant pursuit whereof it has pleased God to aid...

Pilgrim Articles (1618) sent by Pilgrim leaders John Robinson and William Brewster to the Counsel of England requestion approval to settle in Virginia: <Article III. The King's Majesty we acknowledge for Supreme Governor in his Dominion...but in all things obedience is due unto him if the thing commanded be not against God's Word... Article VII. And lastly, we desire to give unto all Superiors due honor to preserve the unity of the Spirit, with all who fear God, to have peace with all men what in us lieth, and wherein we err to be instructed by any.> 1618PA001 -- American Quotations...

Richard Baxter (November 12, 1615-December 8, 1691) was an English nonconformist chaplain and scholar. In his work, Poetical Fragments-Love Breathing Thanks and Praise, 1681, Richard Baxter wrote: <I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.> 1615RB001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1615RB001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Richard Baxter, 1681, in his work titled, Poetical Fragments-Love Breathing Thanks and Praise. John Bartlett, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1855, 1980), p. 294.