The Works of President Edwards ...Isaac Sturtevant, Printer, 1808 - Congregational churches |
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Page 137
... Heathen world , and so the strength of them was the strength of Satan's kingdom . God suffered Satan's kingdom to rise to so great a height of power and magnificence before his Son came to overthrow it , to prepare the way for the more ...
... Heathen world , and so the strength of them was the strength of Satan's kingdom . God suffered Satan's kingdom to rise to so great a height of power and magnificence before his Son came to overthrow it , to prepare the way for the more ...
Page 138
... Heathen monarchies , should be preserved for five or six hundred years together , while the world was so often overturned , and the earth was rent in pieces , and made so often empty and waste , and the inhabitants of it came down so ...
... Heathen monarchies , should be preserved for five or six hundred years together , while the world was so often overturned , and the earth was rent in pieces , and made so often empty and waste , and the inhabitants of it came down so ...
Page 139
... Heathen nations , and often al- most ruined by them , often great multitudes of its inhabitants being slain , and the land in a great measure depopulated ; and those who had them in their power , often intended the ut- ter destruction ...
... Heathen nations , and often al- most ruined by them , often great multitudes of its inhabitants being slain , and the land in a great measure depopulated ; and those who had them in their power , often intended the ut- ter destruction ...
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... Heathen idolatry , through the great- er part of the known world , as he did by the preaching of the gospel after Christ came , it pleased him first to abolish Heath . enism among his own people ; and he did it now by their captivity ...
... Heathen idolatry , through the great- er part of the known world , as he did by the preaching of the gospel after Christ came , it pleased him first to abolish Heath . enism among his own people ; and he did it now by their captivity ...
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... Heathen that lived about that time , which are still extant ; particularly Virgil , the famous poet that lived in Italy a little before Christ was born , has a poem about the ex- pectation of a great prince that was to be born , and the ...
... Heathen that lived about that time , which are still extant ; particularly Virgil , the famous poet that lived in Italy a little before Christ was born , has a poem about the ex- pectation of a great prince that was to be born , and the ...
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Page 114 - Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign ; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, And shall call his name Immanuel.
Page 341 - I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, that unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
Page 41 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid ; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth ; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Page 345 - And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark: but it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
Page 155 - Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.
Page 146 - And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone : and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.
Page 347 - And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.
Page 311 - But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end : many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
Page 352 - And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, and cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled : and after that he must be loosed a little season.
Page 273 - And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.