 | William Cowper - 1841 - 240 pagina’s
...730 The tyranny that doom'd them to the fire, But ffives the glorious suff'rers httle praise.* tie is the freeman whom the truth makes free,} • And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain That hc'llish foes, confed'rate for his harm, 735 Can wind around him. but he casts it off With as much... | |
 | William Plumer - 1841 - 160 pagina’s
...creek and inlet: haply some bright rill May reach, at times, e'en this my far retreat. FREE INQUIRY. He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. COWPER. Truth dwells with reason, in the pure clear light Of free inquiry; Error in the den Of power... | |
 | William Plumer - 1841 - 158 pagina’s
...creek and inlet : haply some bright rill May reach, at times, e'en this my far retreat. FREE INQUIRY. He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. cow PER. Truth dwells with reason, in the pure clear light Of free inquiry ; Error in the den Of power... | |
 | Richard Marks - 1841 - 270 pagina’s
...become a Christian, but the dread of ridicule was like a triple chain about me. Well said the poet, " He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside." How lamentably did I continue to labour as a bond-slave in the drudgery of this chain, doing the works... | |
 | Henry Addington Simcoe - 1841 - 312 pagina’s
...of him who is truth, becoming thus "the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth." ' He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside,' However men may prate of liberty, slaves to the fear of death, of wrath, of hell: slaves to the devil,... | |
 | Peter Freeland Aiken - 1842 - 212 pagina’s
...to keep back the charter of salvation, from those for whom the Saviour purchased spiritual freedom. He is the freeman, whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. The oppressor holds Hii body bound, but knows not what a range His spirit takes, unconscious of a chain.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1842 - 166 pagina’s
...them to the fire, But gives the glorious sufTrers little praise." He is the freeman whom the trutli makes free, And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain That hellish foes, confed'rate for his harm, 7 Can wind around him, but he casts it off With as much ease as Samson his... | |
 | Benjamin Hopkins (vicar of Barbon.) - 1842 - 340 pagina’s
...freedom—the freedom of the soul, given from heaven, and bought with the blood of Jesus Christ. " He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, and all are slaves beside." He that committeth sin is the servant of sin. The Christian alone is free. His sins being washed away... | |
 | Peter Freeland Aiken - 1842 - 212 pagina’s
...to keep back the charter of salvation, from those for whom the Saviour purchased spiritual freedom. He is the freeman, whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. The oppressor holds His body bound, but knows not what a range His spirit takes, unconscious of a chain.... | |
 | 1843 - 526 pagina’s
...man's real freedom is the comparison of his actions with the law of reason ; or, as Cowper says, " He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside." Such a freedom being dependent only on the law of reason requires of course no special form of government,... | |
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The Christian Freeman. 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. He... 
