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 FoundedMcCarty, & Davis, 1825 - 345 Seiten |
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... doctrines of the gospel , as greatly to enhance their value . All this , however , was expected from the author's well - known talents , and literary character ; and few , we believe , will complain of disap- pointment . " - Imperial ...
... doctrines of the gospel , as greatly to enhance their value . All this , however , was expected from the author's well - known talents , and literary character ; and few , we believe , will complain of disap- pointment . " - Imperial ...
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... doctrines , humane and beneficent in its precepts , pure and simple in its worship . " And even Mr. Paine is constrained to confess , that " Jesus Christ was a virtuous and an amiable man ; that the morality which he preached and ...
... doctrines , humane and beneficent in its precepts , pure and simple in its worship . " And even Mr. Paine is constrained to confess , that " Jesus Christ was a virtuous and an amiable man ; that the morality which he preached and ...
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... doctrines of Christianity , studied with attention , made me a most firm and persuaded believer of the Christian religion . I have made it the rule of my life , and — it is the ground of my future hopes . " He was The conversion of the ...
... doctrines of Christianity , studied with attention , made me a most firm and persuaded believer of the Christian religion . I have made it the rule of my life , and — it is the ground of my future hopes . " He was The conversion of the ...
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... doctrines of Christ . " 18. General Dykern received a mortal wound at the bat- tle of Bergen in Germany , A. D. 1759. He was of a noble family , and possessed equal abilities as a minister in the closet , and a general in the field ...
... doctrines of Christ . " 18. General Dykern received a mortal wound at the bat- tle of Bergen in Germany , A. D. 1759. He was of a noble family , and possessed equal abilities as a minister in the closet , and a general in the field ...
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... doctrine , full of incompre- hensibilities . Whenever I formerly thought on religion in some serious moments , I had always an idea in my mind how it ought to be , which was , it should be simple , and accommo- dated to the abilities of ...
... doctrine , full of incompre- hensibilities . Whenever I formerly thought on religion in some serious moments , I had always an idea in my mind how it ought to be , which was , it should be simple , and accommo- dated to the abilities of ...
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Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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?
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.