A Reply to Mr. Balfours̓ Essays: Touching the State of the Dead and a Future RetributionDavid Watson, 1828 - 209 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 46
Page 10
... reason to complain . If " expatiating on the condition of the de- parted with a wild particularity , is listened to with greediness , " it might be expected , my book will be read at least with patience and candor before it is condemned ...
... reason to complain . If " expatiating on the condition of the de- parted with a wild particularity , is listened to with greediness , " it might be expected , my book will be read at least with patience and candor before it is condemned ...
Page 37
... reason to conclude from this text , that the spirit will exist distinct from God after death , than that the body will exist distinct from the ground after it returns to the dust . And we may with equal truth believe in pre - existent ...
... reason to conclude from this text , that the spirit will exist distinct from God after death , than that the body will exist distinct from the ground after it returns to the dust . And we may with equal truth believe in pre - existent ...
Page 53
... reasons besides those already given . 1st . It is contrary to fact , that Jesus ascend- ed to heaven that day , and of course the thief could not be there with him . Jesus did not ascend until forty days after his resurrection . If it ...
... reasons besides those already given . 1st . It is contrary to fact , that Jesus ascend- ed to heaven that day , and of course the thief could not be there with him . Jesus did not ascend until forty days after his resurrection . If it ...
Page 54
... reason can inform us . After mentioning that souls after death were supposed by some to be in some third or middle place , he adds- " Neither were the old Christians wont , as Grotius saith , to call this middle state of place and time ...
... reason can inform us . After mentioning that souls after death were supposed by some to be in some third or middle place , he adds- " Neither were the old Christians wont , as Grotius saith , to call this middle state of place and time ...
Page 56
... reasons . Paul , nor no other sacred writer , ever speaks about the soul or the disembodied spirit go- ing to heaven , or of any souls being there with Christ . Paul assures us in other places , that his de- sires were about " the ...
... reasons . Paul , nor no other sacred writer , ever speaks about the soul or the disembodied spirit go- ing to heaven , or of any souls being there with Christ . Paul assures us in other places , that his de- sires were about " the ...
Other editions - View all
A Reply to Mr. Balfour's Essays, Touching the State of the Dead, and a ... Charles Hudson No preview available - 2017 |
A Reply to Mr. Balfour's Essays: Touching the State of the Dead and a Future ... Charles Hudson No preview available - 2015 |
Common terms and phrases
Acts admit answer apostles appear Ballou believe Bethsaida Bible body called Chorazin Christ's resurrection Christians comp condemned considered crown damnation damned day of judgment dead deists disciples disembodied spirits doctrine earth endless misery Essay evident existence fact faith familiar spirit Father future punishment future retribution Gentiles ghost God's grave happiness hath heathen hence hope Hudson immortal souls Isai ishment Jesus Christ Jewish Jews John judge krino last day live after death living Lord Luke Matt ment miracles mortal nephish never oikoumene Old Testament opinions orthodox brethren passage persons Peter phrase preaching principle of analogy proof prove psuhe punishment after death question quote raised rection referred rendered righteousness Sadducees Saul saved seen sheol Sidon sleep Sodom souls after death speak suffer taught Testament texts thing thou tion true truth ture unto verse views vile bodies word writers
Popular passages
Page 57 - So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Page 177 - Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel : behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost : we are cut off for our parts.
Page 243 - For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law...
Page 252 - But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
Page 41 - 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 30 - Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him ; let him know that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
Page 185 - The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage : but they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage : neither can they die any more : for they are equal unto the angels ; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
Page 33 - And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held. And they cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
Page 161 - Christ not risen; and if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ; whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.
Page 223 - Give unto the Lord the glory due unto His name : Bring an offering, and come into His courts. O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness : Fear before Him, all the earth.