 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau - 1783 - 306 pages
...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 the work of man... | |
 | Uzal Ogden - 1795 - 366 pages
...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 merely the work of... | |
 | 1797 - 572 pages
...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 merely the work of... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - 1801 - 340 pages
...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 pages
...a 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...mean, how contemptible are they, compared with the scripture! Is it possible that a book, at once so simple and sublime, should be merely the work of... | |
 | David Simpson - 1803 - 446 pages
...which 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 : how mean, how contemptible... | |
 | David Bogue - 1806 - 354 pages
...inimitable 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...mean, how contemptible are they compared with the scripture ! Is it possible that a book, at once so simple and sublime, should be merely the work of... | |
 | David Simpson - 1809 - 410 pages
...which 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...its influence on my heart. Peruse the works of our philoso* phers with all their pomp of diction: how mean, how contemptible are they, compared with the... | |
 | David Simpson - 1810 - 422 pages
...which 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 pages
...conviction, 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...as the purity of the Gospel hath its influence on ray heart. Peruse the works of our philosophers with all their pomp of diction ; how mean, how contemptible... | |
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I will confess to you," — this is a man who had no faith in Christianity at all, — "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... 
