 | William Cowper - 1836 - 206 Seiten
...execrates indeed The tyranny that doom'd them to the fire, But gives the glorious suff'rers little praise.* He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves hesiJe. There's not a chain That hellish foes, confed'rate for his harm, Can wind around him,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 416 Seiten
...indeed 730 The tyranny that doom'd them to the fire, But gives the glorious sufferers little praise24. 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 735 Can wind around him,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1837 - 534 Seiten
...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 - 264 Seiten
...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 - 212 Seiten
...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 - 786 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1838 - 332 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | Jeremiah Day - 1838 - 212 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | Edward Bickersteth (rector of Watton, Herts.) - 1838 - 604 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1839 - 554 Seiten
...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,... | |
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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. 
