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 FoundedW. Baynes, 1810 - 345 pages |
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... pounds a year and upwards : Two thousand of them 200 pounds a year and upwards : Five thousand of them under 100 pounds a year . The average value of Livings is about 140 pounds a year , reckoning them at 10,000 . As these things are ...
... pounds a year and upwards : Two thousand of them 200 pounds a year and upwards : Five thousand of them under 100 pounds a year . The average value of Livings is about 140 pounds a year , reckoning them at 10,000 . As these things are ...
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... pounds a year . The 10,000 Clergy * have together about 1,108,000 pounds a year among them , which is little more than 100 pounds a - piece . The whole body of the Clergy and their families make near 100,000 , souls , that is , about an ...
... pounds a year . The 10,000 Clergy * have together about 1,108,000 pounds a year among them , which is little more than 100 pounds a - piece . The whole body of the Clergy and their families make near 100,000 , souls , that is , about an ...
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... pounds a year , making upon an average near 83 pounds a year a - piece * . The whole income of the Kirk of Scotland was in 1755 , about 68,500 pounds a year . This was divided among 944 Mi- nisters , and on an average made 72 pounds a ...
... pounds a year , making upon an average near 83 pounds a year a - piece * . The whole income of the Kirk of Scotland was in 1755 , about 68,500 pounds a year . This was divided among 944 Mi- nisters , and on an average made 72 pounds a ...
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... pounds a year - another 15,000 ; another 10,000 - another 5000 - another 3000 - another 2000 ; and another 1000. One shall heap Living upon Living , Pre- ferment upon Preferment - to a vast amount - merely because he has got access ...
... pounds a year - another 15,000 ; another 10,000 - another 5000 - another 3000 - another 2000 ; and another 1000. One shall heap Living upon Living , Pre- ferment upon Preferment - to a vast amount - merely because he has got access ...
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... pounds a year ; which is at the rate of 3,368 pounds per annum a man , besides all their other preferments . Some of them are known to be very worthy cha- racters ; but others like the one just mentioned , are extremely to blame ...
... pounds a year ; which is at the rate of 3,368 pounds per annum a man , besides all their other preferments . Some of them are known to be very worthy cha- racters ; but others like the one just mentioned , are extremely to blame ...
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Page 173 - And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
Page 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.
Page 199 - JESUS shall reign where'er the sun Does his successive journeys run ; His kingdom stretch from shore to shore, Till moons shall wax and wane no more.
Page 339 - By faith he sojourned in the land of promise as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise ; for he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
Page 319 - When even at last the solemn hour shall come, And wing my mystic flight to future worlds, I cheerful will obey; there, with new powers, Will rising wonders sing. I cannot go Where universal love not smiles around, Sustaining all yon orbs, and all their suns; From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.
Page 59 - If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
Page 302 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found Among the faithless, faithful only he ; Among innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number, nor example, with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Page 273 - He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel : all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
Page 132 - And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying ; Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city ! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
Page 59 - And in nothing terrified by your adversaries : which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.