Advent, in four lectures

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Page 101 - This I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; and they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though
Page 67 - MARK xiii. 35, 36, 37. Watch ye, therefore, for ye know not when the Master of the house cometh ; at even, or at midnight, or at the cock-crowing, or in the morning : lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. And what I say unto you, I say unto all—watch.
Page 83 - shall come in the last days, scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, where is the promise of his coming ? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation: for this they willingly are ignorant of that... the heavens and the earth ... are kept in store, reserved unto fire
Page 47 - there shall come in the last days, scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, where is the promise of his coming ? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation*.
Page 69 - learn a parable of the fig-tree: when her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near: so ye, in like manner, when ye shall see these things come to pass, know that it is nigh, even at the doors.
Page 34 - eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded ; but the same day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed. IN
Page 78 - at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people; and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was, since there was a nation, even to that same time ; and at that time thy people shall be
Page 40 - yourselves know perfectly, that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night; for when they shall say, peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child
Page 81 - This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their ownselves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God, having a form of godliness, but denying
Page 42 - they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; but the same day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.

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