Heaven: Or, An Earnest and Scriptural Inquiry Into the Abode of the Sainted DeadLindsay and Blakiston, 1851 - 290 pages |
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... revelations respecting it , in the Sacred Volume , will allow . He aims to avoid the wildness of purely philosophical speculations on the one hand , and the indefiniteness of dreamy attempt at spiritualization on the other . His task ...
... revelations respecting it , in the Sacred Volume , will allow . He aims to avoid the wildness of purely philosophical speculations on the one hand , and the indefiniteness of dreamy attempt at spiritualization on the other . His task ...
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... Revelation , than any we have ever read . The mourner will find rare consolation in his pages , and the Christian cannot read them without an intenser longing for his home in the dim future . " - Godey's Lady's Book . SECOND NOTICE ...
... Revelation , than any we have ever read . The mourner will find rare consolation in his pages , and the Christian cannot read them without an intenser longing for his home in the dim future . " - Godey's Lady's Book . SECOND NOTICE ...
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... revelation mostly in figures , images , and symbols ; but these are not without meaning . Indeed they are used for the very purpose of making the ideas which they are intended to convey plainer to us , and of giving us a more graphic ...
... revelation mostly in figures , images , and symbols ; but these are not without meaning . Indeed they are used for the very purpose of making the ideas which they are intended to convey plainer to us , and of giving us a more graphic ...
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... revelation , the more sensibly will you see and 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 ...
... revelation , the more sensibly will you see and 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 ...
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... revelation , something of the heavenly Canaan , though it be only its veiled glory through a glass darkly . In a world so full of change as this , and in the midst of a life which must so certainly and so soon come to a close , to be ...
... revelation , something of the heavenly Canaan , though it be only its veiled glory through a glass darkly . In a world so full of change as this , and in the midst of a life which must so certainly and so soon come to a close , to be ...
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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.