A Full Report of the Trial of Henry Hetherington, on an Indictment for Blasphemy: Before Lord Denman and a Special Jury, at the Court of Queen's Bench, Westminster, on Tuesday, December 8, 1840, for Selling Haslam's Letters to the Clergy of All Demoninations ...Henry Hetherington, 1840 - 32 pages |
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Page 13 - So the servants of the householder came and said unto him; Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field ? from whence then hath it tares ? He said unto them; An enemy hath done this.
Page 13 - Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field. He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; the field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; the enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
Page 13 - Let both grow together until the harvest; and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers; Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn.
Page 12 - And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and...
Page 12 - And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud; for he is a god: either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or, peradventure, he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
Page 13 - The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field. But while men slept, his enemy came, and sowed tares among the wheat; and went his way. But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. So the servants of the householder came and said unto him; Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field ? from whence then hath it tares ? He said unto them; An enemy hath done this.
Page 20 - Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered and fed thee? or thirsty and gave thee drink ? When saw we thee a stranger and took thee in ? or naked, and clothed thee ; or when saw we thee sick or in prison, and came unto thee...
Page 13 - Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy. What think ye? They answered and said, He is guilty of death.
Page 12 - Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost ; as your fathers did, so do- ye. Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted ? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One, of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers ; who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
Page 18 - Stra. 834, the court would not suffer it to be debated, whether to write against Christianity was punishable in the temporal court at common law.