An Epitome of General Ecclesiastical History: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time : with an Appendix, Giving a Condensed History of the Jews from the Destruction of Jerusalem to the Present Day, Illustrated with Maps and Engravings |
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... enemies to God who , through voluntary transgression , would bring upon themselves innumerable evils in this life and become exposed to eternal death . One in- How many of their offspring were trained up for heaven by their daily ...
... enemies to God who , through voluntary transgression , would bring upon themselves innumerable evils in this life and become exposed to eternal death . One in- How many of their offspring were trained up for heaven by their daily ...
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... enemies . Their great wickedness : God's care of his people . Deluge . God was pleased to continue the inhabitants of the old world , upon earth , to an astonishing period . Enoch was taken to heav- en in the 365th year of his age ; but ...
... enemies . Their great wickedness : God's care of his people . Deluge . God was pleased to continue the inhabitants of the old world , upon earth , to an astonishing period . Enoch was taken to heav- en in the 365th year of his age ; but ...
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... enemies of the church were mighty . Cain was a hardened wretch . He despised the sacrifice which prefigured the atone- ment , and attempted to please God by his own devices . Angry with Jehovah for exposing the hollowness of his heart ...
... enemies of the church were mighty . Cain was a hardened wretch . He despised the sacrifice which prefigured the atone- ment , and attempted to please God by his own devices . Angry with Jehovah for exposing the hollowness of his heart ...
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... enemies of vital godliness . But amidst the moral desolations of the old world , the Church stood . It was the cause of Jehovah . In the little families of Methusaleh and Lamech and Noah it lived ; and in the last of these holy men ...
... enemies of vital godliness . But amidst the moral desolations of the old world , the Church stood . It was the cause of Jehovah . In the little families of Methusaleh and Lamech and Noah it lived ; and in the last of these holy men ...
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... enemies of the church , we have evidently some allusion in early writ- ings and the religious rites of Heathen nations , and there are numerous appearances in the earth which clearly indicate that it was once overwhelmed by a deluge of ...
... enemies of the church , we have evidently some allusion in early writ- ings and the religious rites of Heathen nations , and there are numerous appearances in the earth which clearly indicate that it was once overwhelmed by a deluge of ...
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Page 19 - Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
Page 134 - But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way : for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel : for I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.
Page 34 - Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him : for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
Page 70 - Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
Page 37 - Judah is a lion's whelp; from the prey, my son, thou art gone up. He stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion. Who shall rouse him up? The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Page 15 - But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Page 31 - And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor : and they served other gods.
Page 72 - Who is there among you of all his people ? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the Lord God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem.
Page 107 - But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither : notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee : 23 And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.
Page 70 - I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots : and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.