| New Church gen. confer - 1864 - 598 pages
...superior condition of the church with men, and thus to look forward to a period when " her light will be like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone clear as crystal." Although we speak of those things as blessings to be enjoyed at some future day, yet we feel assured... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1862 - 606 pages
...in Ihe New Testament, we shall have a striking proof that by Jerusalem is signified the church. "And he carried me away, in the spirit, to a great and high mountain, and showed me that great city the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God." (Rev. xxi. 10.) Then... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1863 - 604 pages
...angels, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife : and he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain." So it is said in the Psalms.f " I will lift up my eyes to the mountains, whence comes my help," where... | |
| 1815 - 608 pages
...Jews embracing the gospel and returning to the holy city.) 10. So he carried me away in (a vision of) the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, (as it were) descending out of heaven from God, 11. Having the glory of God ; and its lustre was like... | |
| Oxford univ, prize poems - 1816 - 214 pages
...his head. To highest heaven he lifts his kingly hand, And treads at once the ocean and the land ; * " That great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of " heaven from God, having the glory of God." Rev. xxi. 10. f Ezekiel xl. t Rev. x. And hark ! his voice amid the thunder's roar, His dreadful voice,... | |
| Richard Baxter - Conversion - 1817 - 510 pages
...palaces ; that thou mayest tell it to thy soul.' Hath it not the glory of God, and is not her light like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal ? See the ' twelve foundations of her walls, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.... | |
| Emanuel Swedenborg - 1819 - 768 pages
...And the angel talked with me, and said, come hither, I will shew thee THE BRIDE, THE LAMB'S WIFE; and he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high...and shewed me that great city, the Holy Jerusalem,' Rev. xxi. 1, 2, 9, 10: also these words: ' I Jesus am the bright and morning star ; and the spirit... | |
| Theology, Doctrinal - 1819 - 488 pages
...unto me one of the seven angels, saying, Come hither, I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife. And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me that great city the holy Jerusalem descending out of heaven, from God, having the glory of... | |
| Richard Baxter - Devotional literature - 1819 - 396 pages
...palaces; that thou mayest tell it to' thy &oul.J 'Hath* it not ' the glory of God, and' is not ' her light like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as a crystal ?' See the ' twelve foundations of her walls, and in them the names of the twelve apostles... | |
| Oxford univ, prize poems - 1819 - 192 pages
...his head. To highest heaven he lifts his kingly hand, And treads at once the ocean and the land ; e " That great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of " heaven from God, having ^he glory of God." Rev. xxi. 10. f Ezckicl xl. S Rev. x. And hark ! his voice amid the thunder's roar,... | |
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