Post by Wasp on Nov 6, 2009 18:45:26 GMT
THE SECRET OF BRITAIN’S GREATNESS
THE OPEN BIBLE
A nation would be truly blest if it were governed by no other laws than this blessed book. It is so complete a system that nothing need be added to it, or taken from it. It contains most things useful to be known or done. It affords a copy for the King, and a rule for a subject. It gives instruction and counsel to a senate, authority and direction to a magistrate. It cautions a witness, requires an impartial verdict from the jury, and furnishes the judge with his sentence; it entails honour to parents and enjoins obedience in children. It prescribes and limit’s the sway of sovereign, the rule of ruler, and the authority of the master; commands the subjects to honour, and the servants to obey, and promises the blessing and protection of its Author to all who walk by its rule. It promises food and raiment, and limit’s the use of both. It defends the right of all, and reveals vengeance to every defrauder, over-reacher and oppressor.
It is the first book, and the best book, and the oldest book in the world. It contains the choicest matter, gives the best instructions, and affords the greatest pleasure and satisfaction that can be revealed. It contains the best laws and the profoundest mysteries that were ever perused. It brings the best of tidings and affords the best of comfort to the inquiring and disconsolate. It exhibits life and immortality and shows the way to everlasting glory. It is a brief recital of all that is past, and is a certain prediction of what is to come. It reveals the only and true God and shows the way to Him, sets aside all other gods and describes the vanity of them, and of all who trust in them.
In short, it is a Book of laws to show right and wrong, a Book of wisdom that condemns, all folly, and makes the foolish wise, a Book of truth that detects all lies and confronts all errors, and a Book of life that shows the way from everlasting destruction.
To understand it is to be wise indeed, but to be ignorant of it is to be destitute of wisdom. It is a complete code of laws, a perfect body of divinity, an unequalled narrative, a Book of lives, of travels and voyages. It is the king’s best copy, the housewife’s best guide, the servant’s best directory, the young man’s best companion, the schoolboy’s spelling Book, and the learned man’s masterpiece. And that which crowns it all the Author is One in Whom there is no variableness nor the shadow of turning. “THE REAPER”
(the following document was found in Westminister Abbey, nameless and dateless)
PS. This has nothing whatsoever to do with any other thread or topic on this forum before I am accused of that. I just saw this and thought I would post it here.
THE OPEN BIBLE
A nation would be truly blest if it were governed by no other laws than this blessed book. It is so complete a system that nothing need be added to it, or taken from it. It contains most things useful to be known or done. It affords a copy for the King, and a rule for a subject. It gives instruction and counsel to a senate, authority and direction to a magistrate. It cautions a witness, requires an impartial verdict from the jury, and furnishes the judge with his sentence; it entails honour to parents and enjoins obedience in children. It prescribes and limit’s the sway of sovereign, the rule of ruler, and the authority of the master; commands the subjects to honour, and the servants to obey, and promises the blessing and protection of its Author to all who walk by its rule. It promises food and raiment, and limit’s the use of both. It defends the right of all, and reveals vengeance to every defrauder, over-reacher and oppressor.
It is the first book, and the best book, and the oldest book in the world. It contains the choicest matter, gives the best instructions, and affords the greatest pleasure and satisfaction that can be revealed. It contains the best laws and the profoundest mysteries that were ever perused. It brings the best of tidings and affords the best of comfort to the inquiring and disconsolate. It exhibits life and immortality and shows the way to everlasting glory. It is a brief recital of all that is past, and is a certain prediction of what is to come. It reveals the only and true God and shows the way to Him, sets aside all other gods and describes the vanity of them, and of all who trust in them.
In short, it is a Book of laws to show right and wrong, a Book of wisdom that condemns, all folly, and makes the foolish wise, a Book of truth that detects all lies and confronts all errors, and a Book of life that shows the way from everlasting destruction.
To understand it is to be wise indeed, but to be ignorant of it is to be destitute of wisdom. It is a complete code of laws, a perfect body of divinity, an unequalled narrative, a Book of lives, of travels and voyages. It is the king’s best copy, the housewife’s best guide, the servant’s best directory, the young man’s best companion, the schoolboy’s spelling Book, and the learned man’s masterpiece. And that which crowns it all the Author is One in Whom there is no variableness nor the shadow of turning. “THE REAPER”
(the following document was found in Westminister Abbey, nameless and dateless)
PS. This has nothing whatsoever to do with any other thread or topic on this forum before I am accused of that. I just saw this and thought I would post it here.