 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.  First Lessons in English - Page 55by Alfred Hix Welsh - 1888 - 205 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 406 pages
...tyranny that doom'd them to the fire. But gives the glorious sufferers little praise.* * 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, but he... | |
 | William Cowper - 1837 - 534 pages
...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, but he casts... | |
 | Samuel Worcester - 1837 - 264 pages
...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, but he casts... | |
 | Edward Bickersteth (rector of Watton, Herts.) - Meditation - 1838 - 604 pages
...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, but he casts... | |
 | Jeremiah Day - Free will and determinism - 1838 - 212 pages
...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, that the... | |
 | American poetry - 1838 - 332 pages
...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, but he... | |
 | 1838 - 786 pages
...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 of man... | |
 | Jeremiah Day - Free will and determinism - 1838 - 212 pages
...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, that the... | |
 | Protestant association - 1839 - 496 pages
...is derived from God's holy Word can create the moral energy which bursts the shackles of Popery— " He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides." But it will be asked, how is this knowledge to be imparted ? This brings me at once to an important... | |
 | sir Jahleel Brenton (1st bart.) - 1839 - 312 pages
...the principles of his holy religion, and he will feel the justice of the poet's beautiful lines : " He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides." He will find himself further supported and strengthened in his firm and undeviating course, by the... | |
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