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 sider |
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... ment of youth , a better system has been lately introduced . Instruction is made to begin with that which is easily acquired , and may not only be remembered but understood . With far less trouble , and even with a good degree of ...
... ment of youth , a better system has been lately introduced . Instruction is made to begin with that which is easily acquired , and may not only be remembered but understood . With far less trouble , and even with a good degree of ...
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... ment , never a New one , mankind would have been at least as corrupt and miserable as they are at present . What harm then have the Old and New Testament done to you , that you perpetually challenge them to account to you for the evil ...
... ment , never a New one , mankind would have been at least as corrupt and miserable as they are at present . What harm then have the Old and New Testament done to you , that you perpetually challenge them to account to you for the evil ...
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... ment . Some repetitions will be found , and some mistakes discovered . The reader will have the goodness to excuse the former , and correct the latter . Two Appendixes are subjoined , the former of which contains some farther thoughts ...
... ment . Some repetitions will be found , and some mistakes discovered . The reader will have the goodness to excuse the former , and correct the latter . Two Appendixes are subjoined , the former of which contains some farther thoughts ...
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... ment of the consolations of religion , and abounds in peace , and hope through the power of the Holy Ghost . He goes through life , if not smoothly and usefully , at least con- tentedly and happily . While , in the eyes of those persons ...
... ment of the consolations of religion , and abounds in peace , and hope through the power of the Holy Ghost . He goes through life , if not smoothly and usefully , at least con- tentedly and happily . While , in the eyes of those persons ...
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... ment , never approached him , but to witness their own igno- miny and often he would curse them , and exclaim : " Retire ! It is you that have brought me to my present state ! Begone ! I could have done without you all ; but you could ...
... ment , never approached him , but to witness their own igno- miny and often he would curse them , and exclaim : " Retire ! It is you that have brought me to my present state ! Begone ! I could have done without you all ; but you could ...
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Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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?
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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.