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 Founded |
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... under much darkness of mind , full of doubts , and fearful apprehensions
concerning the Divine favour , owing to their being deeply immersed in too
secular , or literary pursuits ; to their living beneath their Christian privileges : and
spending ...
... under much darkness of mind , full of doubts , and fearful apprehensions
concerning the Divine favour , owing to their being deeply immersed in too
secular , or literary pursuits ; to their living beneath their Christian privileges : and
spending ...
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Moreover , God in his infinite mercy bath given us his Holy Word , in which , as
there are many things hard to be understood , so there is enough plain and easy
to quiet our minds , aud direct us concerning our future being . I confess to God ...
Moreover , God in his infinite mercy bath given us his Holy Word , in which , as
there are many things hard to be understood , so there is enough plain and easy
to quiet our minds , aud direct us concerning our future being . I confess to God ...
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... strong light from the anecdote which is recorded concerning the Doctor ' s
preaching before King CHARLES the Second , and the Duke ' s severe address
to him . , ment . A future state may very well strike terror : - ' A PLEA FOR
RELIGION.
... strong light from the anecdote which is recorded concerning the Doctor ' s
preaching before King CHARLES the Second , and the Duke ' s severe address
to him . , ment . A future state may very well strike terror : - ' A PLEA FOR
RELIGION.
Page 116
... compared that with our SAVIOUR ' s passion , that he might there see a
propliecy concerning it , written many ages before it was done ; which the Jews
that blasphemed JESUS CHRIST , still kept in their hands as a book divinely
inspired .
... compared that with our SAVIOUR ' s passion , that he might there see a
propliecy concerning it , written many ages before it was done ; which the Jews
that blasphemed JESUS CHRIST , still kept in their hands as a book divinely
inspired .
Page 211
This sufficiently proves , that the very general rejection of CHRIST was not owing
to a want of evidence concerning bis mission , but to causes of a different nature .
If it be enquired what those causes were ; it may be replied - - Many false ...
This sufficiently proves , that the very general rejection of CHRIST was not owing
to a want of evidence concerning bis mission , but to causes of a different nature .
If it be enquired what those causes were ; it may be replied - - Many false ...
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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.
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| Title | 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 ... |
| Author | David Simpson |
| Edition | 6, reprint |
| Publisher | W. Baynes, 1810 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 20 Jul 2006 |
| Length | 345 pages |
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