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
| Methodist Church - 1847 - 662 pages
...dignity and trustful assurance are the lines which it will do thee good yet once again to read : — " 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,... | |
| William Plumer - American poetry - 1841 - 158 pages
...creek and inlet : haply some bright rill May reach, at times, e'en this my far retreat. FREE INQUIRY. He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. co« PER. Truth dwells with reason, in the pure clear light Of free inquiry ; Error... | |
| Benjamin Hopkins (vicar of Barbon.) - 1842 - 340 pages
...freedom — the freedom of the soul, given from heaven, and bought with the blood of Jesus Christ. " He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, and all are slaves beside." He that committeth sin is the servant of sin. The Christian alone is free. His sins... | |
| Christian literature for children - 1843 - 686 pages
...in heaven. Your affectionate Friend and Servant, PASTOR. TRUTH AND FREEDOM. BY WILLIAM D. 6ALLAGUER. He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, .And all are slaves beside. Cowrm. For the truth, then, let us battle, Whatsoever fate betide ! , Long the boast... | |
| Peter Freeland Aiken - Constitutional law - 1842 - 208 pages
...to keep back the charter of salvation, from those for whom the Saviour purchased spiritual freedom. He is the freeman, whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. The oppressor holds His body bound, but knows not what a range His spirit takes, unconscious... | |
| 1844 - 676 pages
...enslaved. " How long shall it be to the end of THESE WONDERS !" R. MINOR SCRIPTURE CHARACTERS. ONESIMUS. " He is the freeman, whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides." COWPEB. NOT a few characters are brought under our notice in the scriptures, of whom... | |
| 1879 - 826 pages
...is made free through the truth, and the service he renders is that of the affections. In reality, " He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside." « Conybeare and Howson's " Paul." At the same time, the word servant, in its primary... | |
| William Goodman - Great Britain - 1845 - 440 pages
...basis of the best, as it is of the surest, governments ;" or as more concisely expressed by Cowper, " He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides." This recent importation, like a new acquaintance, they did not know how to treat with... | |
| John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...execrates indeed The tyranny that doomed them to the fire ; But gives the glorious sufferers little praise. 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,... | |
| William Cowper - 1846 - 310 pages
...execrates indeed The tyranny that doom'd them to the fire, But gives the glorious suflTrers little praise.* He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain That hellish foes, confed'rate for his harm, Can wind around him,... | |
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