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 FoundedT. Conder, 1803 - 351 páginas |
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... cause of truth , that I am persuaded purposes of the most important nature are to be answered by it , in the course of DIVINE PROVIDENCE . But , notwithstanding this persuasion , I have thought it my duty , in the following pages , to ...
... cause of truth , that I am persuaded purposes of the most important nature are to be answered by it , in the course of DIVINE PROVIDENCE . But , notwithstanding this persuasion , I have thought it my duty , in the following pages , to ...
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... cause , " Immortal HALE ! for deep discernment prais'd , " " And sound integrity not more , than fam'd " For sanctity of manners undefil'd . " CowPER'S Task , b . 3 . * Though I greatly admire the defence of Mr. ERSKINE in this oration ...
... cause , " Immortal HALE ! for deep discernment prais'd , " " And sound integrity not more , than fam'd " For sanctity of manners undefil'd . " CowPER'S Task , b . 3 . * Though I greatly admire the defence of Mr. ERSKINE in this oration ...
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... cause as desperate , but do yourself the justice to procure Bishop WAT- SON'S Apology for the Bible in answer to THOMAS PAINE , and his Apology for Christianity in answer to Mr. GIBBON . They are books small in size , but rich in value ...
... cause as desperate , but do yourself the justice to procure Bishop WAT- SON'S Apology for the Bible in answer to THOMAS PAINE , and his Apology for Christianity in answer to Mr. GIBBON . They are books small in size , but rich in value ...
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... cause , that he stoops to the most despicable pun , " or to the most awkward perversion of language , for the pleasure of " turning Scripture into ribaldry , or of calling JESUS an impostor . - A " rage for indecency pervades the whole ...
... cause , that he stoops to the most despicable pun , " or to the most awkward perversion of language , for the pleasure of " turning Scripture into ribaldry , or of calling JESUS an impostor . - A " rage for indecency pervades the whole ...
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... cause they have not been able to substitute any thing better in its " stead : when they can , I don't doubt but in their wisdom they will readily accept it . " ¢ To have entered into a serious defence of the Gospel of CHRIST , with such ...
... cause they have not been able to substitute any thing better in its " stead : when they can , I don't doubt but in their wisdom they will readily accept it . " ¢ To have entered into a serious defence of the Gospel of CHRIST , with such ...
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Página 64 - Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations : that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ.
Página 236 - To die, to sleep : To sleep : perchance to dream : ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause...
Página 63 - Christ, and be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith...
Página 132 - And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men : but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
Página 228 - And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy ; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour.
Página 143 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice
Página 143 - And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
Página 177 - 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 132 - And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potter's clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided ; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. And as the toes of the feet were part of iron and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly broken.
Página 227 - And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.