 He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. 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.  Poems - Strana 218podľa William Cowper - 1788Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | William Cowper - 1837 - Počet stránok 534
...execrates indeed The tyranny, that doom'd them to the fire, But gives the glorious sufTrers little praise.* He is the freeman, whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides. There's not a chain, That hellish foes, confed'rate for his harm, Can wind around him,... | |
 | Samuel Worcester - 1837 - Počet stránok 264
...chance ; From gayety that fills the bones with pain, The mouth with blasphemy, the heart with wo. 15. He is the freeman whom the truth makes free. And all are slaves besides. There ra not a chain, That hellish foes confederate for his harm, Can wind around him,... | |
 | Jeremiah Day - 1838 - Počet stránok 212
...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,... | |
 | 1838 - Počet stránok 332
...contrite Mary's, when — forgiven — An angel smiled, recording it in heaven ! ANON CHRISTIAN LIBERTY. HE is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. There 'a not a chain That hellish foes confederate for his harm Can wind around him,... | |
 | 1838 - Počet stránok 786
...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... | |
 | Edward Bickersteth (rector of Watton, Herts.) - 1838 - Počet stránok 604
...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,... | |
 | Jeremiah Day - 1838 - Počet stránok 212
...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,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1839 - Počet stránok 554
...indeed The 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 are slaves beside. There's not a chain That hellish foes confederate for his harm Can wind around him,... | |
 | sir Jahleel Brenton (1st bart.) - 1839 - Počet stránok 312
...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... | |
 | Protestant association - 1839 - Počet stránok 496
...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... | |
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