 He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain That hellish foes, confederate for his harm, Can wind around him, but he casts it off With as much ease as Samson his green withes.  Poems - Page 218by William Cowper - 1788Full view - About this book
 | Gardiner Spring - Bible - 1839 - 432 pages
...character which the people sustain as citizens. The fear of God is the foundation of political freedom. "He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside." Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is impossible that a nation of infidels or idolaters... | |
 | Sermons, English - 1839 - 610 pages
...nature ; sold under sin, led captive of Satan at his will: heaven alone can furnish the emancipation. " He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside." But if the Lord shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. And the precious deposit... | |
 | John Greenleaf Adams - Christian life - 1840 - 286 pages
...burns within him, and expressive silence attests his inward adoration. The poet has described him. " He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. There 'a not a chain, That hellish foes, confederate for his harm, Can wind around him... | |
 | Protestant association - 1840 - 302 pages
...which they are subjected, will be swept away by the preaching of the truth as it is in Jesus. For " He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides." THE INFALLIBLE POPES. (Extract from a paper read iy BENJAMIN WHITELOcK, Esq. before... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication - 1840 - 348 pages
...Church for his own wild will. He has promised himself liberty, but he is the slave of corruption, for " He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside." Had it pleased God by his Holy Spirit, through the medium of the written word, to dart... | |
 | William Cowper - 1841 - 456 pages
...indeed The tyrrany that doom'd them to the fire. But ghes the glorious sufferers little praise." *S« Hume. He is the freeman, whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain That hellish foes, confederate for his harm, Can wind around him,... | |
 | 1884 - 656 pages
...their subjects wise Kings would not play at." The book closes with the highest sense of freedom. " He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside." In the last book, " The Winter Walk at Noon," the opening note is sympathy : then the... | |
 | 1841 - 572 pages
...Ihe Ckurck, p. 438. t Herbert. from " truth ;" and that brings us back to our old Church position. " He is the freeman whom the Truth makes free, And all are slaves beside." Or, in the words of a higher teacher — "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1841 - 410 pages
...winds, and stars their task fulfil, — | XXAPFY FREEDOM OF THE MAN WHOM GRACE MAKES FREE. (COWPEH.) He is the freeman, whom the truth' makes free; | And all are slaves beside. | There 's not a chain | That hellish foes, confederate for his harm, | Can wind around... | |
 | Sacred cabinet - 1841 - 222 pages
...dimmed her sight I read of charity the sway, And happy homewards took my way, (Crue jfrertiom. COWPEH. HE is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain That hellish foes, confederate for his harm, Can wind around him,... | |
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