HomeCONTENTSHome
TXTThornton; E667| Annotations to Thornton's
TXTThornton; E667| The Lord's Prayer, Newly Translated t1494
TXTThornton; E667| London, 1827
EDAnnThornton; E667| Italics do not represent underlining by Blake.
TXTThorntonTitle; E667| [TITLE PAGE]
AnnThorntonTitle; E667| I look upon this as a Most Malignant & Artful attack upon
AnnThorntonTitle; E667| the Kingdom of Jesus By the Classical Learned thro the
AnnThorntonTitle; E667| Instrumentality of Dr Thornton The Greek & Roman Classics is
AnnThorntonTitle; E667| the Antichrist I say Is & not Are as most expressive & correct
AnnThorntonTitle; E667| too
TXTThornton-ii; E667| [PAGE ii] Doctor Johnson on the Bible.
TXTThornton-ii; E667| ["]The BIBLE is the most difficult book in the world to
TXTThornton-ii; E667| comprehend, nor can it be understood at all by the
TXTThornton-ii; E667| unlearned, except through the aid of CRITICAL and
TXTThornton-ii; E667| EXPLANATORY notes. . . . "
AnnThornton-ii; E667| Christ & his Apostles were Illiterate Men Caiphas Pilate &
AnnThornton-ii; E667| Herod were Learned.
AnnThornton-ii; E667| The Beauty of the Bible is that the most Ignorant & Simple
AnnThornton-ii; E667| Minds Understand it Best--Was Johnson hired to Pretend to
AnnThornton-ii; E667| Religious Terrors while he was an Infidel or how was it
TXTThornton-ii; E667| LORD BYRON on the Ethics of CHRIST.
TXTThornton-ii; E667| ". . . What made SOCRATES the greatest of men? His
TXTThornton-ii; E667| moral truths--his ethics. What proved JESUS
TXTThornton-ii; E667| CHRIST to be the SON OF GOD, HARDLY LESSthan his miracles
TXTThornton-ii; E667| did? His moral precepts. . . ."
AnnThornton-ii; E667| If Morality was Christianity Socrates was The Savior.
EDAnnThornton1; E668| [PAGE 1]
AnnThornton1; E668| Such things as these depend on the Fashion of the Age
AnnThornton1; E668| In a book where all may Read & |
AnnThornton1; E668| In a book which all may Read & } are Equally Right
AnnThornton1; E668| In a book that all may Read |
AnnThornton1; E668| That Man who &/c is equally so The Man that & the Man which
TXTThornton1; E668| THE LORD'S PRAYER,
TXTThornton1; E668| (Translated from the Greek,) by Dr. Thornton.
TXTThornton1; E668| [The Greek text after the second and third verses is supplied by
TXTThornton1; E668| Blake.]
TXTThornton1; E668| Come let us worship, and bow down, and
TXTThornton1; E668| kneel, before the LORD, OUR MAKER Psalm xcv.
TXTThornton1; E668| O FATHER OF MANKIND, THOU, who dwellest inthe highest
TXTThornton1; E668| of the HEAVENS, Reverenc'd be THY Name
TXTThornton1; E668| <Greek text>
TXTThornton1; E668| ________________________
TXTThornton1; E668| May THY REIGN be, every where, proclaim'd so that
TXTThornton1; E668| THY Will may, be done uponthe
TXTThornton1; E668| Earth_, as it is in the MANSIONS of HEAVEN:
TXTThornton1; E668| <Greek text>
TXTThornton1; E668| ________________________
TXTThornton1; E668| Grant unto me, and the whole world, day by
TXTThornton1; E668| day, an abundant supply of spiritual and
TXTThornton1; E668| corporeal FOOD:
TXTThornton1; E668| ________________________
TXTThornton1; E668| FORGIVE US OUR TRANSGRESSIONS against THEE, AS WE extend OUR
TXTThornton1; E668| Kindness, and Forgiveness, TO ALL:
TXTThornton1; E668| ________________________
TXTThornton1; E668| O GOD! ABANDON us not, when surrounded, by TRIALS;
TXTThornton1; E668| ________________________
TXTThornton1; E668| But PRESERVE us from the Dominion of SATAN: For THINE
TXTThornton1; E668| only, is THE SOVEREIGNTY, THE POWER, and THE GLORY, throughout
TXTThornton1; E668| ETERNITY!!!
TXTThornton1; E668| AMEN.
TXTThornton1; E668| Men from their childhood have been so accustomed to mouth
TXTThornton1; E668| the LORD'S PRAYER, that they continue this through life,
TXTThornton1; E668| and call it "Saying their Prayers.. . .
AnnThornton1; E668| It is the learned that Mouth & not the Vulgar
AnnThornton1; E668| Lawful Bread Bought with Lawful Money & a Lawful Heaven seen
AnnThornton1; E668| thro a Lawful Telescope by means of Lawful Window Light The Holy
AnnThornton1; E668| Ghost [who] <& whatever> cannot be Taxed is Unlawful &
AnnThornton1; E668| Witchcraft.
AnnThornton1; E668| Spirits are Lawful but not Ghosts especially Royal Gin is
AnnThornton1; E668| Lawful Spirit [real] No Smuggling <real> British Spirit
AnnThornton1; E668| & Truth
TXTThornton2; E668| [PAGE 2] Critical and Explanatory Notes.
AnnThornton2; E668| Give us the Bread that is our due & Right by taking away
AnnThornton2; E668| Money or a Price or Tax upon what is Common to all in thy Kingdom
EDAnnThornton3; E668| [PAGE 3]
AnnThornton3; E668| Jesus our Father who art in <thy> Heaven<s> calld by thy
AnnThornton3; E668| Name the Holy Ghost Thy Kingdom on Earth is Not nor thy Will
AnnThornton3; E668| done but [?Beelzebub] <[his] <Satans> Will who
AnnThornton3; E668| is the God of this World> The Accuser [Let his Judgment be
AnnThornton3; E668| Forgiveness that he may be cons[u]md in his own Shame]
AnnThornton3; E668| <[His
AnnThornton3; E669| Judgment] <His Accusation> shall be Forgiveness [and he
AnnThornton3; E669| shall] <that he may> be consumd in his own Shame>
AnnThornton3; E669| Give [me] <us> This Eternal Day [my] <our>
AnnThornton3; E669| [Ghostly] <own right> Bread & take away Money or Debt or
AnnThornton3; E669| Tax <a Value or Price> as we have all things common among us
AnnThornton3; E669| Every Thing has as much right to Eternal Life as God who is the
AnnThornton3; E669| Servant of Man
AnnThornton3; E669| Leave us not in [?Poverty ?and ?Want] Parsimony
AnnThornton3; E669| <Satans Kingdom> [but deliver] <liberate> us from the
AnnThornton3; E669| Natural Man & want or Jobs Kingdom
AnnThornton3; E669| For thine is the Kingdom & the Power & the Glory & not
AnnThornton3; E669| Caesars or Satans Amen.
EDAnnThornton3; E669| (Many illegible erasures, partial restorations, and
EDAnnThornton3; E669| repetitions probably meant to replace one another have been
EDAnnThornton3; E669| omitted from this transcript.)
TXTThornton5; E669| [PAGE 5] Dim at best are the conceptions we have of the SUPREME
TXTThornton5; E669| BEING, who, as it were, keeps the human race in suspense, neither
TXTThornton5; E669| discovering, nor hiding HIMSELF; . . .
AnnThornton5; E669| a Female God
TXTThornton6; E669| [PAGE 6] What is the WILL of GOD we are ordered to
TXTThornton6; E669| obey? . . . Let us consider whose WILL it is. . . . It is the
TXTThornton6; E669| WILL of our MAKER. . . . It is finally the WILL. of HIM, who is
TXTThornton6; E669| uncontrolably powerful; . . .
AnnThornton6; E669| So you See That God is just such a Tyrant as Augustus Caesar
AnnThornton6; E669| & is not this Good & Learned & Wise & Classical
TXTThornton9; E669| [PAGE 9] Reasons for a New Translation of the Whole
TXTThornton9; E669| Bible.
AnnThornton9; E669| The only thing for Newtonian & Baconian Philosophers to
AnnThornton9; E669| Consider is this Whether Jesus did not suffer himself to be
AnnThornton9; E669| Mockd by Caesars Soldiers Willingly & [I hope they will]
AnnThornton9; E669| <to> Consider this to all Eternity will be Comment Enough
TXTThornton10; E669| [PAGE 10, blank]
AnnThornton10; E669| This is Saying the Lords Prayer Backwards which they say
AnnThornton10; E669| Raises the Devil
AnnThornton10; E669| Doctor Thorntons <Tory> Translation Translated out of its
AnnThornton10; E669| disguise in the <Classical &> Scotch language into
AnnThornton10; E669| [plain] <the vulgar> English
AnnThornton10; E669| Our Father Augustus Caesar who art in these thy <Substantial
AnnThornton10; E669| Astronomical Telescopic> Heavens Holiness to thy Name <or Title &
AnnThornton10; E669| reverence to thy Shadow> Thy Kingship come upon Earth first &
AnnThornton10; E669| thence in Heaven Give us day by day our Real Taxed <Substantial
AnnThornton10; E669| Money bought> Bread [& take] <deliver from the Holy
AnnThornton10; E669| Ghost <so we call Nature> whatever cannot be Taxed> [debt
AnnThornton10; E669| that was owing to him] <for all is debts & Taxes between
AnnThornton10; E669| Caesar & us & one another> lead us not to read the Bible <but let
AnnThornton10; E669| our Bible be Virgil & Shakspeare> & deliver us from Poverty in
AnnThornton10; E669| Jesus <that Evil one> For thine is the Kingship <or Allegoric
AnnThornton10; E669| Godship> & the Power or War & the Glory or Law Ages after Ages in
AnnThornton10; E669| thy Descendents <for God is only an Allegory of Kings & nothing
AnnThornton10; E669| Else> Amen
AnnThornton10; E669| I swear that Basileia <Greek here> is not Kingdom but
AnnThornton10; E669| Kingship I Nature Hermaphroditic Priest & King Live in Real
AnnThornton10; E669| Substantial Natural Born Man & that Spirit is the Ghost of Matter
AnnThornton10; E669| or Nature & God is The Ghost of the Priest & King who Exist
AnnThornton10; E669| whereas God exists not except from [them] <their
AnnThornton10; E669| Effluvia>AnnThornton10; E670| Here is Signed Two Names which are too Holy to be Written
AnnThornton10; E670| Thus we see that the Real God is the Goddess Nature & that
AnnThornton10; E670| God Creates nothing but what can be Touchd & Weighed & Taxed &
AnnThornton10; E670| Measured all else is Heresy & Rebellion against Caesar Virgils
AnnThornton10; E670| Only God See Eclogue i & for all this we thank Dr Thornton