The Future States: Their Evidence and Nature Considered on Principles Physical, Moral and Scriptural with the Design of Showing the Value of the Gospel RevelationW. Pickering, 1843 - 438 pages |
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... faith . No doctrine can be so fully expounded to them , and enforced by such a weight of moral evidence , but that they will soon be ready to ask , Can any one show us a doctrine more probable than this ? They are never more highly ...
... faith . No doctrine can be so fully expounded to them , and enforced by such a weight of moral evidence , but that they will soon be ready to ask , Can any one show us a doctrine more probable than this ? They are never more highly ...
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... faith whatever appears to be , in fact , declared by the infallible word of God , would be much diminished , if men would remember that every point of doctrine which the mind has once tried , and found to bear the impress of Scriptural ...
... faith whatever appears to be , in fact , declared by the infallible word of God , would be much diminished , if men would remember that every point of doctrine which the mind has once tried , and found to bear the impress of Scriptural ...
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... faith in the Word of God will enable him to discern in His Works relations before unob- served , and harmonies before unsuspected . Any one who was proceeding to examine the con- struction of a complicated piece of machinery , would ...
... faith in the Word of God will enable him to discern in His Works relations before unob- served , and harmonies before unsuspected . Any one who was proceeding to examine the con- struction of a complicated piece of machinery , would ...
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... faith - to the proving that the phenomena of death furnish no reasonable presumption against the doctrine of a future life . And in so far as he has confined himself to such arguments as tend to show that the continuance of life and ...
... faith - to the proving that the phenomena of death furnish no reasonable presumption against the doctrine of a future life . And in so far as he has confined himself to such arguments as tend to show that the continuance of life and ...
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... faith , equally in false religion and in the true . It is not enough that a people should possess certain traditionary or speculative doc- trines concerning the departed ; nothing short of a lively and operative faith in these doctrines ...
... faith , equally in false religion and in the true . It is not enough that a people should possess certain traditionary or speculative doc- trines concerning the departed ; nothing short of a lively and operative faith in these doctrines ...
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Page 269 - For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, That we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God ; and the dead in Christ shall rise first.
Page 251 - For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut doWn, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground ; yet, through the scent of water it will bnd, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Page 284 - For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit : by which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison ; which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
Page 367 - Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places].
Page 304 - By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise : for he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is GOD.
Page 290 - I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
Page 13 - Enter ye in at the strait gate : for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat : because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it...
Page 262 - For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ, that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Page 291 - For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
Page 253 - Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, And shut thy doors about thee: Hide thyself as it were for a little moment, Until the indignation be overpast. For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity : The earth also shall disclose her blood, And shall no more cover her slain.