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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... character could be found who would em bark in the desperate scheme . But when we consider the many awful ... characters , who have little to hope from divine mercy , and much to fear from divine justice , should be induced to embark in ...
... character could be found who would em bark in the desperate scheme . But when we consider the many awful ... characters , who have little to hope from divine mercy , and much to fear from divine justice , should be induced to embark in ...
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... character , while health and prosperity smile upon them , but they will generally fail us in seasons of adversity , and espe- cially in the views of approaching dissolution * . Give me a Religion that will stand by me at all seasons ...
... character , while health and prosperity smile upon them , but they will generally fail us in seasons of adversity , and espe- cially in the views of approaching dissolution * . Give me a Religion that will stand by me at all seasons ...
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... character give , to all the serious . part of the nation , on a late unhappy occasion of this sort ? Religion , good morals , sound policy , true patriotism , all forbad the unchris- tian rencounter . - Stake his life against the life ...
... character give , to all the serious . part of the nation , on a late unhappy occasion of this sort ? Religion , good morals , sound policy , true patriotism , all forbad the unchris- tian rencounter . - Stake his life against the life ...
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... characters of the age , from among all the contending denominations of Christians . The late JACOB BRYANT , Esq .. who was unquestionably one of the deepest inquirers into the original of things , and , NO PRIEST , hath not only written ...
... characters of the age , from among all the contending denominations of Christians . The late JACOB BRYANT , Esq .. who was unquestionably one of the deepest inquirers into the original of things , and , NO PRIEST , hath not only written ...
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... character and gos- pel of CHRIST to do with the treachery of JUDAS , the cowardice of Peter , the ambition of JAMES and JOHN , the lukewarınness and worldly spirit of our Bishops and Clergy , or with the superstitious and secular ...
... character and gos- pel of CHRIST to do with the treachery of JUDAS , the cowardice of Peter , the ambition of JAMES and JOHN , the lukewarınness and worldly spirit of our Bishops and Clergy , or with the superstitious and secular ...
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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.