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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The language of the soul is ; Whom hare I in heaven but thee , O God ! and there
is none upon earth that I desire in comparison of thee . To do unto others as he
would have them to do unto him , is the great law of his life , in all his dealings ...
The language of the soul is ; Whom hare I in heaven but thee , O God ! and there
is none upon earth that I desire in comparison of thee . To do unto others as he
would have them to do unto him , is the great law of his life , in all his dealings ...
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My witness is in heaven and my record on high , that I have endeavoured to
glorify God on earth ; and in the ministry of the Gospel of his dear Son , which
was committed to my trust , I have finished the work which he gave me to do , as a
...
My witness is in heaven and my record on high , that I have endeavoured to
glorify God on earth ; and in the ministry of the Gospel of his dear Son , which
was committed to my trust , I have finished the work which he gave me to do , as a
...
Page 139
... swords into plough shares ; and their spears into pruning hooks : nation shall
not lift up sword against nation , neither shall they learn war any more ; for the
earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD , us the waters cover the sea * .
... swords into plough shares ; and their spears into pruning hooks : nation shall
not lift up sword against nation , neither shall they learn war any more ; for the
earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD , us the waters cover the sea * .
Page 145
... appointment of officers in it , or to it , directly or indirectly , according to the spirit
of the Gospel , but only in their private capacities as individual members of the
Church . No man upon earth , as it seems to them , is entitled to any such power .
... appointment of officers in it , or to it , directly or indirectly , according to the spirit
of the Gospel , but only in their private capacities as individual members of the
Church . No man upon earth , as it seems to them , is entitled to any such power .
Page 175
Who can without horror , ” says this sophister , “ consider the whole earth as the
empire of destruction ? It abounds in wonders : it abounds also in victims ; it is a
vast field of carnage and contagion ! - - Every species is without pity ; pursued
and ...
Who can without horror , ” says this sophister , “ consider the whole earth as the
empire of destruction ? It abounds in wonders : it abounds also in victims ; it is a
vast field of carnage and contagion ! - - Every species is without pity ; pursued
and ...
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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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