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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... consider the many awful threatenings recorded in the Bible against persons of a certain description , the numerous passages apparently liable to very serious objections , the natural darkness of the hu- man understanding , the ...
... consider the many awful threatenings recorded in the Bible against persons of a certain description , the numerous passages apparently liable to very serious objections , the natural darkness of the hu- man understanding , the ...
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... good . Can nothing be done , no measures taken , to put a stop to this infamous practice , this national opprobrium ? --- Let those whom it concerns consider , to pieces with mingled horror and revenge , and committed PREFACE . vi.
... good . Can nothing be done , no measures taken , to put a stop to this infamous practice , this national opprobrium ? --- Let those whom it concerns consider , to pieces with mingled horror and revenge , and committed PREFACE . vi.
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... consider my long course of health and prospe rity ( perhaps too long and too uninterrupted to be good for any man ) only as the dust which the wind scatters , and rather as a snare than as a blessing . " This Publication appears to me ...
... consider my long course of health and prospe rity ( perhaps too long and too uninterrupted to be good for any man ) only as the dust which the wind scatters , and rather as a snare than as a blessing . " This Publication appears to me ...
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... considers this declaration of CHRIST , that , Whosoever shall be ashamed of him , and of his Words , in this adulterous and sinful generation ; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed , when he cometh in the glory of his FATHER with ...
... considers this declaration of CHRIST , that , Whosoever shall be ashamed of him , and of his Words , in this adulterous and sinful generation ; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed , when he cometh in the glory of his FATHER with ...
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... consider them as delusive and enthusiastic . Something of the form of godliness they have gotten , but they deny , and sometimes even ridicule the power . Be this as it may , true religion is still the same ; and the above is a ...
... consider them as delusive and enthusiastic . Something of the form of godliness they have gotten , but they deny , and sometimes even ridicule the power . Be this as it may , true religion is still the same ; and the above is a ...
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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.