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 FoundedMcCarty, & Davis, 1825 - 345 páginas |
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... shew his contempt of Religion . The clergyman and parishioners of the place where his Lordship's seat in Northamptonshire stood , usually passed in sight of the house in their way to church . At the time of their going and returning ...
... shew his contempt of Religion . The clergyman and parishioners of the place where his Lordship's seat in Northamptonshire stood , usually passed in sight of the house in their way to church . At the time of their going and returning ...
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... shews , " says this learned Gentleman , " so strong a dislike to Christianity , as visibly disqua- lifies him for that society , of which he has created Ammianus Marcellinus president . I confess that I see nothing wrong in Mr. Gibbon's ...
... shews , " says this learned Gentleman , " so strong a dislike to Christianity , as visibly disqua- lifies him for that society , of which he has created Ammianus Marcellinus president . I confess that I see nothing wrong in Mr. Gibbon's ...
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... shews us incontestibly , what a poor crea- ture man is , notwithstanding the highest polish he is capable of receiving , without the knowledge and experience of those com- forts , which true religion yields ; and what egregious fools ...
... shews us incontestibly , what a poor crea- ture man is , notwithstanding the highest polish he is capable of receiving , without the knowledge and experience of those com- forts , which true religion yields ; and what egregious fools ...
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... Shew this letter to my friends , and to whom you please . The only great God , and holy God , Father , Son , and Holy Ghost , direct you to a happy end of your life , and send us a joyful resurrection . So prays your true friend ...
... Shew this letter to my friends , and to whom you please . The only great God , and holy God , Father , Son , and Holy Ghost , direct you to a happy end of your life , and send us a joyful resurrection . So prays your true friend ...
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... shew them this epistle . They would laugh at me as a dreaming enthusiast , or pity me as a timorous wretch , who was shocked at the appearance of futurity . They are more entitled to my pity than my resent- * This appears in a very ...
... shew them this epistle . They would laugh at me as a dreaming enthusiast , or pity me as a timorous wretch , who was shocked at the appearance of futurity . They are more entitled to my pity than my resent- * This appears in a very ...
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Página 5 - Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him also shall the son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
Página 126 - Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him of whom Moses in the law and the prophets did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
Página 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.
Página 59 - Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations : that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ.
Página 128 - Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
Página 242 - I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards : I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits: I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees...
Página 243 - What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize: A better would you fix?
Página 128 - Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.
Página 58 - Christ, and be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith...
Página 242 - So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem; also my wisdom remained with me. And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiceth in all my labour; and this was my portion of all my labour.