 I will confess to you that the majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the Gospel has its influence on my heart. Peruse the works of our philosophers, with all their pomp of diction : how mean, how contemptible are they,...  The Messiah: A Poem in Six Books - Pagina 258door Robert Montgomery - 1832 - 300 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau - 1783 - 306 pagina’s
...admiration, as the purity of the gofpel hath its influence on my heart. Perufc the works of our philofophers with all their pomp of diction; how mean, how contemptible are they, compared with the fcripture! Is it poffiblc that a book at once fo fimple and iublime fhould be merely... | |
 | Uzal Ogden - 1795 - 366 pagina’s
...that the purity of the Gofpel hath its influence on my heart ! Perufe the works of our philofophers, with all their pomp of diction ; how mean, how contemptible are they, compared with the fcriptures ! Is it poifible that a book, at once fo funple and fublime, Jhould be... | |
 | 1797 - 572 pagina’s
...admiration, as the purity of the Gofpel hath its influence on my heart. Perufe the works of our philofophers with all their pomp of diction ; how mean, how contemptible are they, compared with the Scripture ! Is it poffible that a book, at once fo fimple and fublime, fhould be... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - 1801 - 340 pagina’s
...the purity of the gofpel hath " its influence on my heart. Perufe the works of " our philofophers, with all their pomp of diction " — how mean — how contemptible — are they, com" pared with the Scripture ! Is it poffible that a " book at once fo fimple and fublime, fhould... | |
 | Thomas Williams - 1803 - 72 pagina’s
...summary of it, in the language of the elegant but sceptical Rousseau f. " I will confess to you, that the majesty of the scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel hath its influence on my heart. Peruse the works of our philosophers, with all their pomp of diction:... | |
 | David Simpson - 1803 - 446 pagina’s
...is the more remarkabkj as it is from the pen of an enemy.. " I will confess to you," says he, " that the majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the Gospel hath its influence en my heart. Peruse the works of our philosophers with all their pomp of diction... | |
 | David Bogue - 1806 - 354 pagina’s
...description of the character of Christ, drawn by the hand of a master. " I will confess to you that the majesty of the scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel hath its influence on my heart. Peruse the works of our philosophers, with all their pomp of diction... | |
 | David Simpson - 1809 - 410 pagina’s
...is the more remarkable, as it is from the pen of an enemy. " I will confess to you," says he, " that the majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel hath its influence on my heart. Peruse the works of our philoso* phers with all their pomp of diction:... | |
 | David Simpson - 1810 - 422 pagina’s
...is the more remarkable, as it is from the pen of an enemy. " I will confess to you," says he, " that the majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the Gosptl hath its influence on my heart. Peruse the works of our philosophers with all their pomp of... | |
 | Frederick Smith - 1811 - 274 pagina’s
...makes the following ingenuous and solid confession in favour of it : lt I wil-1 confess to you that the majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the Gospel hath its influence on ray heart. Peruse the works of our philosophers with all their pomp of diction... | |
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