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 ... To which is Added, a Discourse on State Entertainments, and on Dreams and Night-visions ... With Numerous Additional Notes |
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Page iv
... important journey of life , but in ' the awful crisis of death : -the former as walking through the dreary vale triumphant in God ! while the latter becomes ghastly with horror , and expires without hope . The present Edition contains ...
... important journey of life , but in ' the awful crisis of death : -the former as walking through the dreary vale triumphant in God ! while the latter becomes ghastly with horror , and expires without hope . The present Edition contains ...
Page v
... important nature are to be answered by it , in the course of Divine Provi- dence . But , notwithstanding this persuasion , I have thought it my duty , in the following pages , to bear a decided testimony against some of the most ...
... important nature are to be answered by it , in the course of Divine Provi- dence . But , notwithstanding this persuasion , I have thought it my duty , in the following pages , to bear a decided testimony against some of the most ...
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... importance of Religion and the Sacred Writingst might have any consideration with such of my readers as are deistically inclined , I could produce many of the first characters of the age , from among all the contending denominations of ...
... importance of Religion and the Sacred Writingst might have any consideration with such of my readers as are deistically inclined , I could produce many of the first characters of the age , from among all the contending denominations of ...
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... importance . It demands our most diligent inquiry to obtain a knowledge of it ; and a fixed resolution to abide by it , when obtained . For religion teaches us , that this life bears no pro- portion to the life to come . You see then ...
... importance . It demands our most diligent inquiry to obtain a knowledge of it ; and a fixed resolution to abide by it , when obtained . For religion teaches us , that this life bears no pro- portion to the life to come . You see then ...
Page xvii
... important things , said , " I sincerely wish that the author of the work in question may become a partaker of that faith in revealed religion which he has so grossly defamed , and may be enabled to make his peace with God for that ...
... important things , said , " I sincerely wish that the author of the work in question may become a partaker of that faith in revealed religion which he has so grossly defamed , and may be enabled to make his peace with God for that ...
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