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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... persons to whom the pamphlet is directed , I thought it necessary to mix historic instruction with serious admonition ; and therefore have given a short descrip- tion of the Plant in question , together with the history of its name and ...
... persons to whom the pamphlet is directed , I thought it necessary to mix historic instruction with serious admonition ; and therefore have given a short descrip- tion of the Plant in question , together with the history of its name and ...
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... persons of a certain description , the numerous passages apparently liable to very serious objections , the natural darkness of the human un- derstanding , the perverseness of the human will , and the imperious calls of contending ...
... persons of a certain description , the numerous passages apparently liable to very serious objections , the natural darkness of the human un- derstanding , the perverseness of the human will , and the imperious calls of contending ...
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... person in the room , and desired him " to go into the library , and fetch the cursed book , " mean- ing that which had ... persons , who assemble together on Sundays to confirm each other in their Infidelity . The oaths and imprecations ...
... person in the room , and desired him " to go into the library , and fetch the cursed book , " mean- ing that which had ... persons , who assemble together on Sundays to confirm each other in their Infidelity . The oaths and imprecations ...
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... person are at last arrived , that are to dissipate the errors which have overspread the past generations of ignorance . The believers in Christianity are many , but it belongs to the few that are wise to correct their credulity . Belief ...
... person are at last arrived , that are to dissipate the errors which have overspread the past generations of ignorance . The believers in Christianity are many , but it belongs to the few that are wise to correct their credulity . Belief ...
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... persons whom he undertook to answer . The best edition of the Apology for the Bible , which is the more popular and seasonable work of the two , is four shillings ; but an inferior one may be had from any of the booksellers at the ...
... persons whom he undertook to answer . The best edition of the Apology for the Bible , which is the more popular and seasonable work of the two , is four shillings ; but an inferior one may be had from any of the booksellers at the ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
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 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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?
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.