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And forming a highway for a multitude of angels , who ascended and descended
in two dazzling streams of light , it stood there the bright sign of a redemption
which has restored the intercourse between earth and heaven , and opened a
path ...
And forming a highway for a multitude of angels , who ascended and descended
in two dazzling streams of light , it stood there the bright sign of a redemption
which has restored the intercourse between earth and heaven , and opened a
path ...
Page 3
Here , as on an angel's wing that sheds light on every step , we see him
ascending , and there descending , the ladder . Taking flight from the cross , he
soars upward to the crown ; and now , like an eagle sweeping down from the
bosom of a ...
Here , as on an angel's wing that sheds light on every step , we see him
ascending , and there descending , the ladder . Taking flight from the cross , he
soars upward to the crown ; and now , like an eagle sweeping down from the
bosom of a ...
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when they have led our spirit up through the long line of loving angels to the
throne , what happiness to see Jesus , and get our warmest welcome from the
lips of him who redeemed us by his blood , and , in the agonies of his cross ,
suffered ...
when they have led our spirit up through the long line of loving angels to the
throne , what happiness to see Jesus , and get our warmest welcome from the
lips of him who redeemed us by his blood , and , in the agonies of his cross ,
suffered ...
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Neither angels nor saints would seek your company , nor would you seek theirs .
Unable to join in their hallowed employments , to sympathise with , or even to
understand their holy joys , you would feel more desolate in heaven than we
have ...
Neither angels nor saints would seek your company , nor would you seek theirs .
Unable to join in their hallowed employments , to sympathise with , or even to
understand their holy joys , you would feel more desolate in heaven than we
have ...
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Let no man delude himself ; or believe that cunning devil , who ,unlike the ugly
toad that , seated squat by the ear of Eve , filled her troubled mind with horrid
dreams , hovers over him in the form of a benignant angel , charming away his
fears ...
Let no man delude himself ; or believe that cunning devil , who ,unlike the ugly
toad that , seated squat by the ear of Eve , filled her troubled mind with horrid
dreams , hovers over him in the form of a benignant angel , charming away his
fears ...
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| Title | Christ and the Inheritance of the Saints: Illustrated in a Series of Discourses from the Colossians |
| Author | Thomas Guthrie |
| Publisher | Adam and Charles Black, 1858 |
| Original from | The British Library |
| Digitized | 14 Jun 2016 |
| Length | 385 pages |
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