The Signs of the Time; Or the Overthrow of the Papal Tyranny in France: The Prelude of Destruction to Popery and Despotism, But of Peace to MankindThe author, 1794 - 70 pages |
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... fame reason , in interpreting the prophecies relating to the latter times of the world , the judgment of the latter writers is to be preferred before that of the ancients , because the moderns living nearer the times when the events ...
... fame reason , in interpreting the prophecies relating to the latter times of the world , the judgment of the latter writers is to be preferred before that of the ancients , because the moderns living nearer the times when the events ...
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... fame good and great end of Provi- dence . " Poffibly , " fays the relater , he might think that our Saviour's words ( Luke xviii . 8. ) imply it . When the Son of Man cometh fhall he find faith on the earth ? Or , poffibly he might ...
... fame good and great end of Provi- dence . " Poffibly , " fays the relater , he might think that our Saviour's words ( Luke xviii . 8. ) imply it . When the Son of Man cometh fhall he find faith on the earth ? Or , poffibly he might ...
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... fame picture variegated , for our instruction , on a larger fcale . As there are some , into whofe hands these pages may fall , who have not been used to attend to fubjects like these which we are going to discuss , it may be proper ...
... fame picture variegated , for our instruction , on a larger fcale . As there are some , into whofe hands these pages may fall , who have not been used to attend to fubjects like these which we are going to discuss , it may be proper ...
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... fame circumftance as the four horns of the he - goat in the sighth chapter . Fifteen years after the death of Alexander , his bro- ther , and two fons being murdered , his kingdom was broken , or di- vided , by Caffander , Lyfimachus ...
... fame circumftance as the four horns of the he - goat in the sighth chapter . Fifteen years after the death of Alexander , his bro- ther , and two fons being murdered , his kingdom was broken , or di- vided , by Caffander , Lyfimachus ...
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... fame tyranny which is fhewn to John ( Rev. xiii . 10. ) as a beaft . In this all our best commentators are agreed . Nor let it feem ftrange that what is here prefigured by a horn of the fourth beast , the Roman dominion , should be ...
... fame tyranny which is fhewn to John ( Rev. xiii . 10. ) as a beaft . In this all our best commentators are agreed . Nor let it feem ftrange that what is here prefigured by a horn of the fourth beast , the Roman dominion , should be ...
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Page 64 - I have trodden the winepress alone ; and of the people there was none with me : for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury ; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
Page 24 - And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth : and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
Page 19 - AND I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud : and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire...
Page 6 - But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Page 38 - Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
Page 26 - And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death: and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
Page 6 - Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain : let all the inhabitants of the land tremble : for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand...
Page 15 - And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning, as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters...
Page 20 - And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.
Page 66 - And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell ; and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath.