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 pages |
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... wish that the author of the work in question may become a partaker of that faith in re- vealed religion , which he has so grossly defamed , and may be enabled to make his peace with GOD for that disorder , which he has endeavoured to ...
... wish that the author of the work in question may become a partaker of that faith in re- vealed religion , which he has so grossly defamed , and may be enabled to make his peace with GOD for that disorder , which he has endeavoured to ...
Page xxiii
... wishes may be both profitable and pleasant : utile dulci . If any of his clerical brethren are so far offended at the free- dom he has taken with his own order , or the established re- ligion of his country , as to make a reply , he ...
... wishes may be both profitable and pleasant : utile dulci . If any of his clerical brethren are so far offended at the free- dom he has taken with his own order , or the established re- ligion of his country , as to make a reply , he ...
Page xxiv
... wishes it unsaid . Let him not , however , accept any man's person , neither let him give flattering titles unto mau ; for he knows not to give flattering titles ; in so doing his MAKER would soon take him away . It has been , therefore ...
... wishes it unsaid . Let him not , however , accept any man's person , neither let him give flattering titles unto mau ; for he knows not to give flattering titles ; in so doing his MAKER would soon take him away . It has been , therefore ...
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... wish to be undeceived . He would rather be ready to say with the great Roman Orator , when speaking of the im- mortality of the soul : - If in this I err , I willingly err ; nor , while I live , shall any man wrest from me this error ...
... wish to be undeceived . He would rather be ready to say with the great Roman Orator , when speaking of the im- mortality of the soul : - If in this I err , I willingly err ; nor , while I live , shall any man wrest from me this error ...
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... wish : millions of millions of years will bring me no nearer to the end of my tortures , than one poor hour . O eter- nity ! eternity ! who can properly paraphrase upon the words for ever and ever ! " In this kind of strain he went on ...
... wish : millions of millions of years will bring me no nearer to the end of my tortures , than one poor hour . O eter- nity ! eternity ! who can properly paraphrase upon the words for ever and ever ! " In this kind of strain he went on ...
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Page 173 - And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.