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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... tion , that all is vanity and vexation of spirit . This truth is never sufficiently discovered or felt by mere speculation : expe- rience in this case is necessary for conviction , though perhaps at the expence of some morality . " My ...
... tion , that all is vanity and vexation of spirit . This truth is never sufficiently discovered or felt by mere speculation : expe- rience in this case is necessary for conviction , though perhaps at the expence of some morality . " My ...
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... tion appeared to him to be solid and invincible ; and the nature of it to be such as demanded his warmest accept- ance . 16. SOAME JENYNGS , Esq . Member of Parliament for Cambridge , by some means had been warped aside into the paths ...
... tion appeared to him to be solid and invincible ; and the nature of it to be such as demanded his warmest accept- ance . 16. SOAME JENYNGS , Esq . Member of Parliament for Cambridge , by some means had been warped aside into the paths ...
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... tion : so that I am capable of distinguishing what is really good and praise - worthy , and what is not . Now I see with a clearer sight than ever , and discern a vast difference between the vain licentious discourse of a Libertine ...
... tion : so that I am capable of distinguishing what is really good and praise - worthy , and what is not . Now I see with a clearer sight than ever , and discern a vast difference between the vain licentious discourse of a Libertine ...
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... tion of human passions , selfishness and ambition , and that re- ligion served in such cases only for a cloak . - I am fully con- vinced of the truth of the Christian religion , and I feel its power in quieting my conscience , and ...
... tion of human passions , selfishness and ambition , and that re- ligion served in such cases only for a cloak . - I am fully con- vinced of the truth of the Christian religion , and I feel its power in quieting my conscience , and ...
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... tion . At last , deserted by all his friends , and despised by all the world , he died in the greatest want and obscurity . It is of him tha Mr. POPE says : " In the worst inn's worst room , with mat half hung , With floor of plaister ...
... tion . At last , deserted by all his friends , and despised by all the world , he died in the greatest want and obscurity . It is of him tha Mr. POPE says : " In the worst inn's worst room , with mat half hung , With floor of plaister ...
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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.