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. Poems - Page 218by William Cowper - 1788Full view - About this book
| John Prince - Bible - 1846 - 490 pages
...happily, somewhat in this way, by the English poet Cowper ; and with his admirable lines, I close : "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 Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1847 - 524 pages
...He shows the secret of his deep and untiring attachment to nature, in the love of Him who made it. " 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,... | |
| 1878 - 496 pages
...grows lean." " Tis liberty alone that gives the bloom Of fleeting life, its lustre and perfume." " He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside." " How many deeds with which the world has rung, From pride in league with ignorance... | |
| William Cowper - 1847 - 556 pages
...indeed The tyrauny, that doom'd them to the fire. But gives the glorious sufferers little praise.* 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,... | |
| 1847 - 586 pages
...are many, very many men of talent and wisdom among the oppressed Italians, who feel and know that " He is the freeman, whom the truth makes free, (»»•«• ' And all are slaves beside;" who desire a moral change, a spiritual renovation ; who long for liberty, but not for... | |
| English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...execrates indeed The tyranny that doom'd them to the fire, But gives the glorious sufferers little praise.* 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,... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - Readers - 1848 - 468 pages
...understanding to the simple." LESSON XLVII. HAPPY FREEDOM OF THE MAN WHOM GRACE ' MAKES FREE. COWPEE. 1. HE is the freeman, whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides. There's not a chain, That fiendish foes, confederate for his harm, Can wind around... | |
| Jews - 1848 - 188 pages
...children of God, whose service is perfect freedom, John viii. 36 ; Hom. viii. 21 ; 1 Cor. vii. 22. " 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 bind around him,... | |
| Theology - 1848 - 876 pages
...poor" rest on their and our efforts to interest the poor in the riches of his gospel. TRUE FREEDOM. 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,... | |
| Joseph Jones - 1850 - 72 pages
...transformation of apostate roan, From fool to wise, from earthly to divine, Is work for Him that made him He is the freeman, whom the Truth makes free, And all are slaves besides." I have no wish to make this Lecture a Sermon : but I should be unjust to God and Truth,... | |
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