A Plea for Religion and the Sacred Writings: Addressed to the Disciples of Thomas Paine, and Wavering Christians of Every DenominationSolomon Wiatt, 1809 - 393 páginas |
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Página ix
... speak plainly and directly . Newton was a Christian ! Newton , whose mind burst forth from the fetters , cast by nature upon our finite conceptions - Newton , whose science was truth , and the foundation of whose know- ledge of it was ...
... speak plainly and directly . Newton was a Christian ! Newton , whose mind burst forth from the fetters , cast by nature upon our finite conceptions - Newton , whose science was truth , and the foundation of whose know- ledge of it was ...
Página xiii
... speak- ing in the strongest of all language , that it is better the poor , mi- serable , benighted Heathen nations should continue in their pre- sent deplorable condition , than that they should be brought out of darkness into the ...
... speak- ing in the strongest of all language , that it is better the poor , mi- serable , benighted Heathen nations should continue in their pre- sent deplorable condition , than that they should be brought out of darkness into the ...
Página xv
... speak the plain honest truth , without courting any man's favour , or fearing any man's dis- pleasure . ( 7 ) He makes no question but a large ( 7 ) George II . who was fond of Whiston , happened to be walk- ing with him one day ...
... speak the plain honest truth , without courting any man's favour , or fearing any man's dis- pleasure . ( 7 ) He makes no question but a large ( 7 ) George II . who was fond of Whiston , happened to be walk- ing with him one day ...
Página xvi
... speak so freely and openly upon all these public abuses at a time so critical as the present ? " Because I may never have another opportunity , and it is proper that somebody should speak . For the public abuses specified , must either ...
... speak so freely and openly upon all these public abuses at a time so critical as the present ? " Because I may never have another opportunity , and it is proper that somebody should speak . For the public abuses specified , must either ...
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... speaking of the immortality of the soul : - " If in this I err , I willingly err ; nor , while I live , shall any man wrest from me this error , with which I am extremely delighted . " ( 4 ) It would not be difficult to produce striking ...
... speaking of the immortality of the soul : - " If in this I err , I willingly err ; nor , while I live , shall any man wrest from me this error , with which I am extremely delighted . " ( 4 ) It would not be difficult to produce striking ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 272 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 270 - Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.