The Gospel: An Exposition of Its First PrinciplesGeorge Q. Cannon & Sons Company, 1893 - 352 pages |
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... answering the question , What is the Gospel ? The definition to the term I shall derive from the scriptures ; not from one passage alone , but from the consideration of a number of passages . The Apostle Paul , in defining the Gospel ...
... answering the question , What is the Gospel ? The definition to the term I shall derive from the scriptures ; not from one passage alone , but from the consideration of a number of passages . The Apostle Paul , in defining the Gospel ...
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... answer to the questions with which the last chapter closed , I may say that however diffi- cult it may be to comprehend fully all things connected with man's fall , and God's plan for his redemption , we may be assured that the fall was ...
... answer to the questions with which the last chapter closed , I may say that however diffi- cult it may be to comprehend fully all things connected with man's fall , and God's plan for his redemption , we may be assured that the fall was ...
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... answers yes . For those sacrifices , and that sprinkled blood were but typical of the great sacrifice to be made by the Messiah . Even the mythology of heathen nations retains the idea of an atonement that either has been , or is to be ...
... answers yes . For those sacrifices , and that sprinkled blood were but typical of the great sacrifice to be made by the Messiah . Even the mythology of heathen nations retains the idea of an atonement that either has been , or is to be ...
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... answer the foregoing question in the affirmative . The writers of the New Testament make Christ's Atonement the principal theme of their discourses and epistles . The Book of Mormon , speaking as the voice of an entire continent of ...
... answer the foregoing question in the affirmative . The writers of the New Testament make Christ's Atonement the principal theme of their discourses and epistles . The Book of Mormon , speaking as the voice of an entire continent of ...
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... of ours - the earth ? I answer that every man and every woman and every child , who has arrived at the years of accountability - who understands the difference between good and evil - is responsible for it , 32 THE GOSPEL .
... of ours - the earth ? I answer that every man and every woman and every child , who has arrived at the years of accountability - who understands the difference between good and evil - is responsible for it , 32 THE GOSPEL .
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Page 24 - Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels ? But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
Page 10 - Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
Page 333 - And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew : for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
Page 117 - And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, and was transfigured before them : and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him.
Page 247 - And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: 21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
Page 225 - And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Page 53 - For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach except they be sent?
Page 211 - Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Page 143 - Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
Page 253 - Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.