A Plea for Religion and the Sacred Writings: Addressed to the Disciples of Thomas Paine, and Wavering Christians of Every Persuasion. With an Appendix, Containing the Author's Determination to Have Relinquished His Charge in the Established Church, and the Reasons on which that Determination was FoundedW. Baynes, 1810 - 345 páginas |
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... shew his contempt of Religion . The clergyman and parishioners of the place where his Lordship's seat in Northamptonshire stood , usually passed in sight of the house in their way to church . At the time of going and returning , he ...
... shew his contempt of Religion . The clergyman and parishioners of the place where his Lordship's seat in Northamptonshire stood , usually passed in sight of the house in their way to church . At the time of going and returning , he ...
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... shews , " says this learned Gentleman , " so strong a dislike to Christianity , as visibly disqua- lifies him for that society , of which he has created AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS president . I confess that I see nothing wrong in Mr. GIBBON's ...
... shews , " says this learned Gentleman , " so strong a dislike to Christianity , as visibly disqua- lifies him for that society , of which he has created AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS president . I confess that I see nothing wrong in Mr. GIBBON's ...
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... shews incontestibly , what a poor crea- ture man notwithstanding the highest polish he is capable of receiving , without the knowledge and experience of those com- forts , which true religion yields ; and what egregious fools all those ...
... shews incontestibly , what a poor crea- ture man notwithstanding the highest polish he is capable of receiving , without the knowledge and experience of those com- forts , which true religion yields ; and what egregious fools all those ...
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... Shew this letter to my friends , and to whom you please . The only great GOD , and holy GOD , FATHER , SON , and HOLY GHOST , direct you to a happy end of your life , and send us a joyful resurrection . So prays your true friend ...
... Shew this letter to my friends , and to whom you please . The only great GOD , and holy GOD , FATHER , SON , and HOLY GHOST , direct you to a happy end of your life , and send us a joyful resurrection . So prays your true friend ...
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... shew them this epistle . They would laugh at me as a dreaming enthusiast , or pity me as a timorous wretch , who was shocked at the appearance of futurity . They are more entitled to my pity than my resent- * This appears in a very ...
... shew them this epistle . They would laugh at me as a dreaming enthusiast , or pity me as a timorous wretch , who was shocked at the appearance of futurity . They are more entitled to my pity than my resent- * This appears in a very ...
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Página 173 - And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
Página 172 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherits, shall dissolve ; And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind ! we are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
Página 199 - JESUS shall reign where'er the sun Does his successive journeys run ; His kingdom stretch from shore to shore, Till moons shall wax and wane no more.
Página 339 - By faith he sojourned in the land of promise as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise ; for he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
Página 319 - When even at last the solemn hour shall come, And wing my mystic flight to future worlds, I cheerful will obey; there, with new powers, Will rising wonders sing. I cannot go Where universal love not smiles around, Sustaining all yon orbs, and all their suns; From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.
Página 59 - If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
Página 302 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found Among the faithless, faithful only he ; Among innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number, nor example, with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Página 273 - He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel : all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
Página 132 - And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying ; Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city ! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
Página 59 - And in nothing terrified by your adversaries : which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.