Heaven: Or, An Earnest and Scriptural Inquiry Into the Abode of the Sainted DeadLindsay and Blakiston, 1851 - 290 pages |
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... feeling , evincing the author's personal delight in meditating on the heavenly theme . We shall be pleased to see our contemporaries sustaining our genuine estimate of this volume , and in recommending it , especially at a season when ...
... feeling , evincing the author's personal delight in meditating on the heavenly theme . We shall be pleased to see our contemporaries sustaining our genuine estimate of this volume , and in recommending it , especially at a season when ...
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... have therefore ventured to offer this volume as a contribution to this department of pious inquiry , hoping that the reading of it may be as much blest to the hearts of those who read it , as I feel the writing of 1 ( v )
... have therefore ventured to offer this volume as a contribution to this department of pious inquiry , hoping that the reading of it may be as much blest to the hearts of those who read it , as I feel the writing of 1 ( v )
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... feel the writing of it to have been to me . Any book that will serve , in any degree , to draw the realities of the eternal world — especially of heaven - nearer to us , is not written and read in vain . There is great danger that the ...
... feel the writing of it to have been to me . Any book that will serve , in any degree , to draw the realities of the eternal world — especially of heaven - nearer to us , is not written and read in vain . There is great danger that the ...
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... feel no pleasure in being suspended for ever in an ethereal region , and perpetually singing psalms and hymns to the Eternal " — an idea of heaven which is too frequently conveyed by the vague and distorted descriptions which have been ...
... feel no pleasure in being suspended for ever in an ethereal region , and perpetually singing psalms and hymns to the Eternal " — an idea of heaven which is too frequently conveyed by the vague and distorted descriptions which have been ...
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... feel the blissful power of heavenly things . If we get a letter from an absent friend , in which the country where he sojourns is described , we see things at a second reading which we did not see at first ; and , if even the country is ...
... feel the blissful power of heavenly things . If we get a letter from an absent friend , in which the country where he sojourns is described , we see things at a second reading which we did not see at first ; and , if even the country is ...
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Page 212 - 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 75 - But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
Page 221 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night...
Page 247 - But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life ; for I am not better than my fathers.
Page 68 - For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
Page 216 - That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.
Page 237 - And he went out and followed him; and wist not that it was true which was done by the angel, but thought he saw a vision.
Page 65 - Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 149 - to be absent from the body, is to be present with the Lord.
Page 72 - Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to Him : for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.