The shield of dissent; or, Dissent in its bearings on legislation. With strictures on dr. [J.] Brown's work on tribute [The law of Christ respecting civil obedience].Snow, 1839 - 148 pages |
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Page 84 - Tis the sublime of man, Our noontide majesty, to know ourselves Parts and proportions of one wondrous whole ! This fraternizes man, this constitutes Our charities and bearings. But 'tis God Diffused through all, that doth make all one whole ; This the worst superstition, him except Aught to desire, Supreme Reality!
Page 20 - Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days : which are a shadow of things to come ; but the body is of Christ.
Page 50 - By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea : 6 Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains ; being girded with power : 7 Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.
Page 11 - Whatever law deviates from this principle will always meet with a resistance which will destroy it in the end ; for the smallest force continually applied will overcome the most violent motion communicated to bodies.
Page 36 - It may be a cure for superstition — for intolerance it will be the most certain cure ; but a pure and true religion has nothing to fear from the greatest expansion which the understanding can receive by the study either of matter or of mind. The more widely science is diffused, the better will the Author of all things be known, and the less will the people be ' tossed to and fro by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive.
Page 122 - For it is an immutable truth, that what comes from the heart, that alone goes to the heart ; what proceeds from a Divine impulse, that the Godlike alone can awaken.
Page 121 - ... chase to the right hand, some to the left ; these wasting down their moral nature, and these feeding it for immortality ? A whole generation may appear even to sleep, or may be exasperated with rage, — they that compose it, tearing each other to pieces with more than brutal fury. It is enough for complacency and hope, that scattered and solitary minds are always laboring somewhere in the service of truth and virtue ; and that by the sleep of the multitude the energy of the multitude may be...
Page 13 - Justice without power is inefficient ; power without justice is tyranny. Justice without power, is opposed, because there are always wicked men. Power without justice is soon questioned. Justice and power must therefore be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
Page 112 - ... prescribed to us; it extends or limits our duties according to its own fancy, whether they proceed from religion, politics, or morality.
Page 10 - Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm, Shall in the happy trial prove most glory ; But evil on itself shall back recoil, And mix no more with goodness, when at last Gather'd like scum, and settled to itself, It shall be in eternal restless change Self-fed, and self-consumed : if this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.