A candid inquiry into the democratic schemes of the dissenters, during these troublous times [by W. Atkinson].

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Page 10 - A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
Page 21 - God could not come into the world, without a certainty coming in his train, that all the kingdoms of the world shall become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever.
Page 13 - If the blind lead the blind they will both fall into the ditch...
Page 16 - Let me cast the mote out of thy eye; and behold a beam is in thy own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thy own eye, and then shalt thou see to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Page 18 - ... them by what means they may make me their friend, and have a happy paflage through my dark valley. I would...
Page 28 - general principle on which we found our " dissent is this : that no civil magistrate " can have any right, authority, or power " over the consciences or religion of men; a 1 Cor. xi. 19. t> Titus iii. 10. c Romans xvi. 17, 18. P 4 '* that his claiming to himself the inter...
Page 36 - The Probable Progress and Issue of the Commotions which have agitated Europe since the French Revolution, argued from the Aspect of Things and the Writings of the Prophets.
Page 6 - From the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness: and from the prophet even to the priest every one dealeth falsely.
Page 14 - Is it equitable that, whenever I work for myself, I should be compelled to work for another person also?"1 Tithe was listed by Adam Smith as one of the "effectual bars...

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