 There's not a chain That hellish foes, confederate for his harm, Can wind around him, but he casts it off With as much ease as Samson his green withes. He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and though poor perhaps, compared With those whose...  The sacred cabinet of literature and art. Pr - 8 페이지저자: Sacred cabinet - 1841전체보기 - 도서 정보
 | 1838 - 786 페이지
...Hindoo, let us advert to our own situation, to that of our friends, and thousands of our countrymen. " He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside." Alas ! how few attain this noble elevation ! How few are delivered from " the fear of man that bringeth... | |
 | Jeremiah Day - 1838 - 212 페이지
...freedom, is an exemption from the controlling influence and bondage of evil propensities and passions. " He is the freeman, whom the truth makes free; And all are slaves beside." This may be called, for distinction's sake, moral freedom. It is far from implying, that the acts of... | |
 | Edward Bickersteth (rector of Watton, Herts.) - 1838 - 604 페이지
...the poet Cowper expressed the privileges even in this life of him who receives the truth of God: • He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides. There's not a chain That hellish foes, confederate for his harm, Can wind around him, but... | |
 | William Cowper - 1839 - 554 페이지
...tyranny that doom'd them to the fire, But gives the glorious sufferers littla praise1. 1 See Hume. He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all...around him, but he casts it off With as much ease as Samson his green withes. He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and though poor perhaps,... | |
 | Protestant association - 1855 - 404 페이지
...rendered worthy the blood-bought privileges of British freemen ; for as a Christian poet has it — ' He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside.' " But in the struggle that is impending to achieve this thrice-glorious object, effective measures... | |
 | 1839 - 610 페이지
...nature ; sold under sin, led captive of Satan at his will: heaven alone can furnish the emancipation. " He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside." But if the Lord shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. And the precious deposit is lodged in... | |
 | Gardiner Spring - 1839 - 432 페이지
...character which the people sustain as citizens. The fear of God is the foundation of political freedom. "He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside." Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is impossible that a nation of infidels or idolaters should be... | |
 | Protestant association - 1839 - 496 페이지
...is derived from God's holy Word can create the moral energy which bursts the shackles of Popery— " He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides." But it will be asked, how is this knowledge to be imparted ? This brings me at once to an... | |
 | sir Jahleel Brenton (1st bart.) - 1839 - 312 페이지
...the principles of his holy religion, and he will feel the justice of the poet's beautiful lines : " He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides." He will find himself further supported and strengthened in his firm and undeviating course,... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication - 1840 - 348 페이지
...Church for his own wild will. He has promised himself liberty, but he is the slave of corruption, for " He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside." Had it pleased God by his Holy Spirit, through the medium of the written word, to dart into his mind... | |
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