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 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة ix
... mankind would have been at least as corrupt and miserable as they are at present , What harm then have the Old and New Testament done to you , that you perpetually challenge them to account to you for the evil you suffer ? You dislike ...
... mankind would have been at least as corrupt and miserable as they are at present , What harm then have the Old and New Testament done to you , that you perpetually challenge them to account to you for the evil you suffer ? You dislike ...
الصفحة xii
... mankind . What a change in such a mind might not be wrought by such a merciless publication ? ” " . But it seems , this is an Age of Reason , and the time and the person are at last arrived , that are to dissipate the errors which have ...
... mankind . What a change in such a mind might not be wrought by such a merciless publication ? ” " . But it seems , this is an Age of Reason , and the time and the person are at last arrived , that are to dissipate the errors which have ...
الصفحة xiii
... mankind . ' " GENTLEMEN ! in the place where we now sit to admi- nister the justice of this great country , above a century ago , the never - to - be - forgotten Sir MATTHEW HALE presided ; whose faith in Christianity is an exalted ...
... mankind . ' " GENTLEMEN ! in the place where we now sit to admi- nister the justice of this great country , above a century ago , the never - to - be - forgotten Sir MATTHEW HALE presided ; whose faith in Christianity is an exalted ...
الصفحة xvi
... mankind . Though they walked as it were through a cloud dar ly , they hoped their posterity would almost see God face to face . This condition of mankind has met with reprehension to - day . But I shall not pursue this argument ; fully ...
... mankind . Though they walked as it were through a cloud dar ly , they hoped their posterity would almost see God face to face . This condition of mankind has met with reprehension to - day . But I shall not pursue this argument ; fully ...
الصفحة xxv
... mankind . To every truly pious and consistent Christian , literate or illite- rate , he would give the right hand of fellowship , and bid him god - speed in the name of the LORD , wherever he is found . Clerical bigots , however , of ...
... mankind . To every truly pious and consistent Christian , literate or illite- rate , he would give the right hand of fellowship , and bid him god - speed in the name of the LORD , wherever he is found . Clerical bigots , however , of ...
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الصفحة 173 - And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.