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Page viii
... seem best . For we have no prospect of any life to come ; much less any assurances . But if religion be a truth , it is the most serious truth of any with which we can possibly be engaged : an article of the greatest importance . It ...
... seem best . For we have no prospect of any life to come ; much less any assurances . But if religion be a truth , it is the most serious truth of any with which we can possibly be engaged : an article of the greatest importance . It ...
Page ix
... seems , this is an Age of Reason , and the time and the persons are at last arrived , that are to dis- sipate the errors which have overspread the past gene- rations of ignorance . The believers in Christianity are many , but it belongs ...
... seems , this is an Age of Reason , and the time and the persons are at last arrived , that are to dis- sipate the errors which have overspread the past gene- rations of ignorance . The believers in Christianity are many , but it belongs ...
Page xviii
... seems to catch a ray of their genius ; to intermingle soul with soul ; to taste the raptures of their sacred rage ; and to meditate unutterable things . Oh ! for a Spirit of burning , to refine these drossy natures ; a muse of fire ...
... seems to catch a ray of their genius ; to intermingle soul with soul ; to taste the raptures of their sacred rage ; and to meditate unutterable things . Oh ! for a Spirit of burning , to refine these drossy natures ; a muse of fire ...
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... seems adapted with consummate wisdom , to our state and circumstances . " Soft peace she brings , wherever she arrives , She builds our quiet as she forms our lives ; Lays the rough paths of peevish nature ev'n , And opens in each ...
... seems adapted with consummate wisdom , to our state and circumstances . " Soft peace she brings , wherever she arrives , She builds our quiet as she forms our lives ; Lays the rough paths of peevish nature ev'n , And opens in each ...
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... seems to have had as firm a faith in a Saviour then to come , as many of the most virtuous of the Israelitish nation . • really of the first distinction . Just before my depar 26 A PLEA FOR RELIGION . EXAMPLES OF DYING INFIDELS. ...
... seems to have had as firm a faith in a Saviour then to come , as many of the most virtuous of the Israelitish nation . • really of the first distinction . Just before my depar 26 A PLEA FOR RELIGION . EXAMPLES OF DYING INFIDELS. ...
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Page xv - 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 151 - 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. 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 threshing floors; 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 198 - 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 330 - But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding? Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me; and the sea saith, It is not with me.
Page 263 - To die, to sleep : To sleep : perchance to dream : ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause...
Page 272 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill...
Page 225 - 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 295 - But though we, or an Angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
Page 317 - 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 270 - Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.