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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... king of Sardinia , where he changed his religion and became a Catholic . By an unexpected turn of fortune he became a footman ; in which capacity he forgot not his old habit of stealing . He is detected with the stolen goods ; swears ...
... king of Sardinia , where he changed his religion and became a Catholic . By an unexpected turn of fortune he became a footman ; in which capacity he forgot not his old habit of stealing . He is detected with the stolen goods ; swears ...
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... King of England , who fought fifty - six bat- tles with the Danes , many of which were gained by his own personal courage and great example , dedicated , with strict punctuality , eight hours every day to acts of devotion , eight hours ...
... King of England , who fought fifty - six bat- tles with the Danes , many of which were gained by his own personal courage and great example , dedicated , with strict punctuality , eight hours every day to acts of devotion , eight hours ...
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... King of Spain , when he drew near the end of his days , expressed his deep regret for a careless and worldly life in the following emphatical words : - " Ah ! how happy would it have been for me had I spent these twenty - three years ...
... King of Spain , when he drew near the end of his days , expressed his deep regret for a careless and worldly life in the following emphatical words : - " Ah ! how happy would it have been for me had I spent these twenty - three years ...
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... king be looked on in the most offensive light ; and yet no notice taken when the KING of kings is treated with indignity and disrespect ? " The companions of my former libertinism would scarce believe their eyes , were you to shew them ...
... king be looked on in the most offensive light ; and yet no notice taken when the KING of kings is treated with indignity and disrespect ? " The companions of my former libertinism would scarce believe their eyes , were you to shew them ...
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... King of Spain , and Lord of the Netherlands , after having alarmed and agitated all Europe for near fifty years , retired from the world , and enjoyed more compleat contentment in this situa tion than all his grandeur had ever yielded ...
... King of Spain , and Lord of the Netherlands , after having alarmed and agitated all Europe for near fifty years , retired from the world , and enjoyed more compleat contentment in this situa tion than all his grandeur had ever yielded ...
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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.