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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In this way he continued , sometimes better and sometimes worse , till he died . He was frequently visited by his deistical brethren during his illness , who would fain have persuaded the public he was off his senses ; which was by no ...
In this way he continued , sometimes better and sometimes worse , till he died . He was frequently visited by his deistical brethren during his illness , who would fain have persuaded the public he was off his senses ; which was by no ...
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educated by the best of parents ) , but arises from the fullest and most continued reflections of my riper years and understanding . It forms , at this moment , the great consolation of a life , which , as a shadow , must pass away ...
educated by the best of parents ) , but arises from the fullest and most continued reflections of my riper years and understanding . It forms , at this moment , the great consolation of a life , which , as a shadow , must pass away ...
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The Gospel is in all cases one continued lesson of the " strictest morality , of justice , of benevolence , and of universal cha " rity . " 66 These are strange concessions from a professed Deist ! And yet , strange as they certainly ...
The Gospel is in all cases one continued lesson of the " strictest morality , of justice , of benevolence , and of universal cha " rity . " 66 These are strange concessions from a professed Deist ! And yet , strange as they certainly ...
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In this unhappy condition he continued a number of years , all the time improving himself , under very unpropitious circumstances , in classical and mathematical learning . At the age of about twenty - three or twenty - four , however ...
In this unhappy condition he continued a number of years , all the time improving himself , under very unpropitious circumstances , in classical and mathematical learning . At the age of about twenty - three or twenty - four , however ...
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SOAME JENYNS , Esq . Member of Parliament for Cambridge , by some means had been warped aside into the paths of Infidelity , and continued in this state of mind several years . Finding his spirit , however , not at rest , he was induced ...
SOAME JENYNS , Esq . Member of Parliament for Cambridge , by some means had been warped aside into the paths of Infidelity , and continued in this state of mind several years . Finding his spirit , however , not at rest , he was induced ...
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Page 64 - 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 236 - 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...
Page 63 - 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 132 - And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men : but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
Page 228 - And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy ; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour.
Page 143 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice
Page 143 - And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
Page 177 - 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 132 - And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potter's clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided ; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. And as the toes of the feet were part of iron and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly broken.
Page 227 - And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
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| Pealkiri | 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 ... Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Religion, Society, Spirituality, and Reform |
| Autor | David Simpson |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | T. Conder, 1803 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 20 juuli 2006 |
| Length | 351 pages |
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