Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Lives of Isaac Heath, and John Bowles, Elders of the Church, and Principal Founders of the Grammar School in Roxbury: And of Rev. John Eliot, Jr., Preacher to the Indians, and First Pastor of the Church in Newton
In the reign of Queen Elizabeth, under the auspicious in?uences of the protestant reformation, and the spirit begotten in the English nation by the grand designs of Sir Humphry Gilbert, the Father of American Colonization, and the enterprises of his brother Sir Walter Raleigh - were born and educated the men and women designed by Providence to give birth to a new nation, on a new continent, with new in stitutions founded not on Magna Charta, or the grants of monarchs, but on the Rock of Ages, having their life in the piety and knowledge - the manhood of the people.
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