The History of Darien 1700

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الصفحة 29 - We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble ! The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.
الصفحة 95 - He is the Rock, his work is perfect : for all his ways are judgment : a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
الصفحة 100 - I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and give you an inheritance among all them that are sanctified.
الصفحة 81 - Sudom never declared fuch impudence in finijing as they. Any obfervant eye might fee, that they were running the way they went : hell and judgment was to be feen upon them, and in them, before the time : Their cup was, full ; it could hold во more : They were ripe ; they muft, be cut down with the fickle of the wrath of God...
الصفحة 29 - What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place. The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish. The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them. They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
الصفحة 1 - Darien giving a short description of that countrey, with an account of the attempts of the Company of Scotland, to settle a colonie in that place. With a relation of some of the many tragical disasters, which did attend that design. With some practical reflections upon the whole. Written mostly in the year 1700, while the author was in the American regions.
الصفحة 6 - ... for a thousand shall fall beside him, and ten thousand at his right hand, but it shall not come nigh to him ; for he shall give his angels charge over him to keep him in all his ways.
الصفحة 92 - Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways. Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the Lord. Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the Lord of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.
الصفحة 95 - I took from him; twos for the Advantage of his Interiour that I took it away, and I gave it unto the Impious Man, as the present Reward of his good Works, which is all the Reward that he is like to have. As for our Third Host, the Servant which I slew had formed a bloody design to have slain his Master, but now, you see, I have saved the Life of the Master, and prevented something of growth unto the Eternal Punishment of the Murderer. As for our Fourth Host, before his Child was born unto him-, he...
الصفحة 94 - Providence, an angel, in humane shape, invited him to travel with him, that he might see the hidden judgments of God. Lodging all night at the house of a man who kindly entertained them, the angel took away a valuable cup from their host, at their going away in the morning, and bestowed this cup upon a very wicked man, with whom they lodged the night ensuing. The third night they were most lovingly treated at the house of a very godly man, from whom, when they went in the morning the angel meeting...

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