Popish Legends, Or, Bible TruthsLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852 - 332 pages |
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Page ix
... Divine truth ; but now that sacred candle of the Lord is to be for ever hid under a bushel . She has enlisted herself among those Papists with whom it is a forbidden book , who have put thousands to death for reading it , who give her ...
... Divine truth ; but now that sacred candle of the Lord is to be for ever hid under a bushel . She has enlisted herself among those Papists with whom it is a forbidden book , who have put thousands to death for reading it , who give her ...
Page xi
... Divine Saviour sound very like promulgating Protestant liberty for every mortal to search the Scriptures , when He says to the Sadduces , " Ye do err , not know- ing the Scriptures . " This proves that even the Sad- duces were intended ...
... Divine Saviour sound very like promulgating Protestant liberty for every mortal to search the Scriptures , when He says to the Sadduces , " Ye do err , not know- ing the Scriptures . " This proves that even the Sad- duces were intended ...
Page xviii
... Divine Redeemer , as Diogenes did when Alexander intercepted the light of the sun , only impatient for the obstacle to be removed . A Protestant Christian finds , even in the greatest miracles recorded by the Bible , nothing contrary to ...
... Divine Redeemer , as Diogenes did when Alexander intercepted the light of the sun , only impatient for the obstacle to be removed . A Protestant Christian finds , even in the greatest miracles recorded by the Bible , nothing contrary to ...
Page xxiii
... Divine Saviour , in referring especially to Mary , when she was an- nounced as his mother , answered that " thenceforth no one should know him after the flesh ; " and it seems impossible for language to speak more plainly than Jesus did ...
... Divine Saviour , in referring especially to Mary , when she was an- nounced as his mother , answered that " thenceforth no one should know him after the flesh ; " and it seems impossible for language to speak more plainly than Jesus did ...
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... Divine embraces she was received by her Son , and exalted above every creature ! " Pro- testants , tempted sometimes by the beauty of en- gravings which represent these fabulous traditions , are induced to adorn their rooms with such ...
... Divine embraces she was received by her Son , and exalted above every creature ! " Pro- testants , tempted sometimes by the beauty of en- gravings which represent these fabulous traditions , are induced to adorn their rooms with such ...
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Popish Legends, Or Bible Truths: Dedicated to Her Nieces (Classic Reprint) Catherine Sinclair No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 39 - The world recedes: it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy Victory? O Death! where is thy Sting.
Page 129 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!
Page 80 - Arrayed in beauteous green The hills and valleys shine, And man and beast are fed By providence divine : The harvest bows Its golden ears, The copious seed Of future years. 3 "So," saith the God of grace, " My gospel shall descend, Almighty to effect The purpose I intend ; Millions of souls Shall feel its power, And bear it down To millions more.
Page 126 - Let our unceasing, earnest prayer Be too for light,— for strength to bear Our portion of the weight of care That crushes into dumb despair One half the human race.
Page 168 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 265 - I say unto you, My friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear : Fear Him, Which after He hath killed, hath power to cast into hell ; yea, I say unto you, Fear Him.
Page 130 - He needs must think of her once more, How in the grave she lies; And with his hard, rough hand he wipes A tear out of his eyes.
Page 16 - Is not this the fast that I have chosen ? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke ? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house...
Page 81 - Mid smitten joys, and buried loves, — When sleep my tearful pillow flies, And dewy morning drinks my sighs, — Still to thy promise, Lord, I flee, That " as my day my strength shall be.
Page xvi - Sirs, why do ye these things ? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you, that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living GOD, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein ; who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.