Memoir of the Rev. Samuel Davies: Formerly President of the College of New Jersey |
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Page 97 - For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
Page 76 - Soldiers this Moment! — Ye young and hardy Men, whose very Faces seem to speak that God and Nature formed you for Soldiers, who are free from the Incumbrance of Families depending upon you for Subsistence, and who are perhaps but of little Service to Society, while at...
Page 98 - made him bold and enterprising. Yet the event proved that his boldness arose, not from a partial, groundless self-conceit, but from true self-knowledge. Upon fair and candid trial, faithful and just to himself, he judged what he could do ; what he could, when called to it, he attempted ; and what he attempted, he accomplished.
Page 74 - As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country.
Page 67 - I replied that we allowed the candidate to mention his objections against any article in the Confession, and the judicature judged whether the articles objected against, were essential to Christianity ; and if they judged they were not, they would admit the candidate notwithstanding bis objections.
Page 28 - I cannot but observe that the negroes, above all the human species I ever knew, have an ear for music, and a kind of ecstatic delight in Psalmody ; and there are no books they learn so soon, or take so much pleasure in, as those used in that heavenly part of divine worship.
Page 124 - I soar in sacred extacies, when the love of Jesus is my theme, and, as Mr. Baxter was wont to express it, in lines more striking to me than all the fine poetry in the world, " I preach as if I ne'er should preach again ; And as a dying man to dying men.
Page 101 - I shall never serve thee much better on this side the region of perfection. The thought grieves me: It breaks my heart, but I can hardly hope better. But if I have the least spark of true piety in my breast, I shall not always labour under this complaint. No, my Lord, I shall yet serve thee — serve thee through an immortal duration — with the activity, the fervour, the perfection of the rapt seraph that adores and burns.
Page 86 - To satisfy you of the reason of my present removal I will give you a brief impartial account of the whole affair. " The College of New Jersey, though an infant institution, is of the utmost importance to the interests of religion and learning, in several extensive and populous colonies. From it both Church and State expect to be supplied with persons properly qualified for public stations ; and it has already been very useful to both in this respect. Before the irreparable breach made in it, by the...
Page 76 - ... ye that love your country, enlist; for honour will follow you in life or death in such a cause. You that love your religion, enlist ; for your < religion is in danger. Can Protestant Christianity expect quarters from heathen savages and French Papists. Sure in such an alliance the powers of hell make a third party. Ye that love your friends and relations, enlist; lest ye see them enslaved and butchered before your eyes.