The Prophetic History of the Christian Religion Explained: Or, A Brief Exposition of the Revelation of St. John According to a New Discovery of Prophetical Time, by which the Whole Chain of Prophecies is Arranged, and Their Certain Completion Proved from History Down to the Present Period - with Summary Views of Those Not Yet Accomplished, Volume 1Henry C. Neinstedt, 1817 - Bible |
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... Sardis , and unto Philadel phia , and unto Laodicea . Here the seer of heavenly visions , the tender , lovely apostle John , describes his own person to all the churches , that it was he , whom they well knew as their brother in Christ ...
... Sardis , and unto Philadel phia , and unto Laodicea . Here the seer of heavenly visions , the tender , lovely apostle John , describes his own person to all the churches , that it was he , whom they well knew as their brother in Christ ...
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... Sardis and Laodicea are also in dif- ferent places addressed in the plural number , to assist us in arriving at the true sense af this word . The seven candlesticks , by which the Church of Christ is represented in these pastoral ...
... Sardis and Laodicea are also in dif- ferent places addressed in the plural number , to assist us in arriving at the true sense af this word . The seven candlesticks , by which the Church of Christ is represented in these pastoral ...
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... Sardis , the few names , which he had left there . Both were collective bodies of faith- ful ministers of Christ , who receive praise and promises , without the least censure or blame , and yet not numbered with the angels there . III ...
... Sardis , the few names , which he had left there . Both were collective bodies of faith- ful ministers of Christ , who receive praise and promises , without the least censure or blame , and yet not numbered with the angels there . III ...
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... Sardis had the name only of being alive , and in reality was dead ; and he at Laodicea was luke- warm , and even worse than cold , and therefore the Lord was ready to spue him out of his mouth as a nauseating morsel . 4 IV . Neither the ...
... Sardis had the name only of being alive , and in reality was dead ; and he at Laodicea was luke- warm , and even worse than cold , and therefore the Lord was ready to spue him out of his mouth as a nauseating morsel . 4 IV . Neither the ...
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... SARDIS . Verse 1. And unto the angel of the Church in Sardis write ; these things saith he that hath the seven spirits of God , and the seven stars ; I know thy works , that thou hast a name that thou livest , and art dead . 2 Be ...
... SARDIS . Verse 1. And unto the angel of the Church in Sardis write ; these things saith he that hath the seven spirits of God , and the seven stars ; I know thy works , that thou hast a name that thou livest , and art dead . 2 Be ...
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Page 42 - And when I saw him I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, "Fear not; I am the first and the last. I am he that liveth and was dead; and behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
Page 170 - And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. 6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
Page 211 - And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters...
Page 227 - And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
Page 208 - And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea, and the third part of the sea became blood, and the third part of the creatures which were in the sea and had life died, and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
Page 58 - And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write ; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive...
Page 93 - Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments ; and they shall walk with me in white : for they are worthy.
Page 34 - Let no man deceive you by any means, for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition : who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself
Page 34 - THE Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass ; and he sent and signified it by his Angel unto his servant John...
Page 36 - I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.