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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NEWTON , whose mind barst forth from the fetters cast by nature upon our finite
conceptions - - NEWTON , whose seience was truth and the foundatoin of whose
kpowledge of it was philosophy : Not those visionary and arrogant presumptions
...
NEWTON , whose mind barst forth from the fetters cast by nature upon our finite
conceptions - - NEWTON , whose seience was truth and the foundatoin of whose
kpowledge of it was philosophy : Not those visionary and arrogant presumptions
...
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Can you bring your selves calmly to believe , that this beautiful frame of nature ,
which displays so much intelligence ... that follow : - - NIEUWENTYT ' s Religious
Philosopher - - Adams ' s Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy ...
Can you bring your selves calmly to believe , that this beautiful frame of nature ,
which displays so much intelligence ... that follow : - - NIEUWENTYT ' s Religious
Philosopher - - Adams ' s Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy ...
Page 195
Many things in the volumes of nature and providence far exceed our highest
powers to comprehend * ; it is not improbable , therefore , that the volume of
divine grace should be under a siinilar predicament . What doth the wisest map
upon ...
Many things in the volumes of nature and providence far exceed our highest
powers to comprehend * ; it is not improbable , therefore , that the volume of
divine grace should be under a siinilar predicament . What doth the wisest map
upon ...
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With Dr . ROBINSON , the natural philosopher , we say , “ The Scriptures of the
Old and New Testament contain a system of human nature , the grandest , the
most extensive and complete , that ever was divulged to mankind since the ...
With Dr . ROBINSON , the natural philosopher , we say , “ The Scriptures of the
Old and New Testament contain a system of human nature , the grandest , the
most extensive and complete , that ever was divulged to mankind since the ...
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Many hundreds of a similar nature might be laid before the reader , besides those
we have already selected . Aud I confess , there is no kind of reading , that is so
edifying to me , as the final scenes of those persons , who have been eminent in
...
Many hundreds of a similar nature might be laid before the reader , besides those
we have already selected . Aud I confess , there is no kind of reading , that is so
edifying to me , as the final scenes of those persons , who have been eminent in
...
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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.