The Light of Truth, and Pleasure of Light: In Four Books. Great is Truth, and it Shall PrevailM. Smith., 1827 - 279 pages |
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... person who believes that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament contain a revelation of the will of God , and a knowledge of the ultimate destiny of the human race , must per- ceive the importance of knowledge in relation to these ...
... person who believes that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament contain a revelation of the will of God , and a knowledge of the ultimate destiny of the human race , must per- ceive the importance of knowledge in relation to these ...
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... person in the duality of the Persian doc- tors , has , by an easy metamorphosis , become the devil . of the moderns . And it is a fair presumption , that the Jews , during their captivity , imbibed the popular errors of the Magi of ...
... person in the duality of the Persian doc- tors , has , by an easy metamorphosis , become the devil . of the moderns . And it is a fair presumption , that the Jews , during their captivity , imbibed the popular errors of the Magi of ...
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... persons be- ing possessed by devils , the devils being cast out , and the sufferers healed , a different word is found . We read Daimonion , -- not t - Diabolos . This word properly signifies insane persons . Hence the decla- ration of ...
... persons be- ing possessed by devils , the devils being cast out , and the sufferers healed , a different word is found . We read Daimonion , -- not t - Diabolos . This word properly signifies insane persons . Hence the decla- ration of ...
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... person , or even a metamorphosis , by which one substance is changed into another . It is one of the helps to aid the mind of man , and increase his means of conception and knowledge . Again : The doctrine we are attempting to dis ...
... person , or even a metamorphosis , by which one substance is changed into another . It is one of the helps to aid the mind of man , and increase his means of conception and knowledge . Again : The doctrine we are attempting to dis ...
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... persons , who were incurable in those days of medical ignorance ; and therefore , from the violence of the symptoms , were regarded by the superstitious , as possessed by diaboli- cal agents . This view of the subject has been success ...
... persons , who were incurable in those days of medical ignorance ; and therefore , from the violence of the symptoms , were regarded by the superstitious , as possessed by diaboli- cal agents . This view of the subject has been success ...
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admit afflictions Ahraman Almighty angel of light angels answer apostles believe body called Christ Christians damnation darkness dead death demons devil disciples divine doctrine earth endless misery eternal misery everlasting evident evil existence Father fear fire flesh future Gehenna Gentiles glory gods gospel grave Greek Hades happiness hath heathen heaven Hence Hesiod holy human idea immortal infinite Israel Jehovah Jerusalem Jesus Jewish Jews Josephus knowledge light Magian means ment mind Moloch moral nation Nephish never Old Testament opinion orthodox parable passage persons Pharisees place of endless place of eternal prophet prove Psalm punishment quenched remarks rendered saith the Lord satan Saviour says scripture sense Sheol signifies sinned soul speaking spirit suffer supposed Taenaris Tartarus term thee things thou tion Tophet torment translated hell truth ture unto valley of Hinnom wicked word hell worm worship writers Zoroaster
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Page 196 - And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off : it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched : where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Page 137 - Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel : behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost : we are cut off for our parts.
Page 135 - Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; that at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world : but now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
Page 158 - O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave : thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
Page 292 - ... having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure, which he hath purposed in himself: That in the dispensation of the fulness of times, he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth, even in him...
Page 177 - Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, are these.
Page 180 - And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
Page 132 - Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh : who are Israelites ; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises ; whose are the fathers, and of whom, as concerning the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
Page 131 - As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: "so the LORD alone did lead him, and there •was no strange god with him.
Page 287 - But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.