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 honour and blessedness of the glorious attempt is left to the poor ? - 13 . not
such a conduct among our great Ones speaking in the strongest of all language ,
that it is better the poor , nuiser - , able , benighted , Heathen nations should ...
The honour and blessedness of the glorious attempt is left to the poor ? - 13 . not
such a conduct among our great Ones speaking in the strongest of all language ,
that it is better the poor , nuiser - , able , benighted , Heathen nations should ...
Page 57
... and washed me from them all in his own blood ; who is worthy to receive glory ,
and honour , and power ; who hath created all things , and for whose pleasure
they are and were created . “ My witness is in heaven and my record on high ,
that ...
... and washed me from them all in his own blood ; who is worthy to receive glory ,
and honour , and power ; who hath created all things , and for whose pleasure
they are and were created . “ My witness is in heaven and my record on high ,
that ...
Page 67
If these discerning men , how . ever , would attend more to their own conduct ,
and less to the misconduct of others , it would be much happier for them , and
more to their honour . Can any thing be more unreasonable than that the Gospel
...
If these discerning men , how . ever , would attend more to their own conduct ,
and less to the misconduct of others , it would be much happier for them , and
more to their honour . Can any thing be more unreasonable than that the Gospel
...
Page 70
Speaking on the causes of the war , he said , “ It was a war of necessity and not of
choice ; for he himself at the time was sent with full powers to preserve peace , if it
could be done consistently with the honour and interest of this country .
Speaking on the causes of the war , he said , “ It was a war of necessity and not of
choice ; for he himself at the time was sent with full powers to preserve peace , if it
could be done consistently with the honour and interest of this country .
Page 147
Their emoluments are of such a nature , their worldly engagements so numerous
, and the temptations to the pleasures , honours , and amusements of life so
strong , that their minds become secularized , and they lose all lively relish for the
...
Their emoluments are of such a nature , their worldly engagements so numerous
, and the temptations to the pleasures , honours , and amusements of life so
strong , that their minds become secularized , and they lose all lively relish for the
...
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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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