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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... kings of Prussia , Naples , Spain , and Portugal , and even the emperor himself , at this moment tremble on their ... books to corrupt the minds of the people , and prepare them for desperate measures . And similar means are at this ...
... kings of Prussia , Naples , Spain , and Portugal , and even the emperor himself , at this moment tremble on their ... books to corrupt the minds of the people , and prepare them for desperate measures . And similar means are at this ...
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... books of Chronicles as a repe- tition of the two books of Kings . It is easy to be convinced , however , that this is a very er- roneous representation . — The first book of Kings contains an account of the old age and death of David ...
... books of Chronicles as a repe- tition of the two books of Kings . It is easy to be convinced , however , that this is a very er- roneous representation . — The first book of Kings contains an account of the old age and death of David ...
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... books of Kings and Chronicles ; but that , in most other respects , they are entirely different . 9. Mr. Paine says , the book of Ezra was written immedi- ately after the Jews returned from Babylon . He should have known , however ...
... books of Kings and Chronicles ; but that , in most other respects , they are entirely different . 9. Mr. Paine says , the book of Ezra was written immedi- ately after the Jews returned from Babylon . He should have known , however ...
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... kings have been of the same mind . Robert , King of Sicily , declares of himself , " The Holy Books are dearer to me than my kingdom , and were I under any necessity of quit- ting one , it should be my diadem . " And even the haughty ...
... kings have been of the same mind . Robert , King of Sicily , declares of himself , " The Holy Books are dearer to me than my kingdom , and were I under any necessity of quit- ting one , it should be my diadem . " And even the haughty ...
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... books of Kings , and Chronicles , the volumes of Ezra and Esther , and , lastly , the Canticles . The book of Revelation has as many mysteries as words ; I said too little ; in every word there is a variety of senses , and the ...
... books of Kings , and Chronicles , the volumes of Ezra and Esther , and , lastly , the Canticles . The book of Revelation has as many mysteries as words ; I said too little ; in every word there is a variety of senses , and 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.