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... swords and spears of theological warfare into the ploughshares and pruning - hooks of moral cultivation . The Lectures were composed for the pulpit , not for the press , and are , as to manner , so much more adapted for the former than ...
... swords and spears of theological warfare into the ploughshares and pruning - hooks of moral cultivation . The Lectures were composed for the pulpit , not for the press , and are , as to manner , so much more adapted for the former than ...
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... swords into plough- shares , and their spears into pruning - hooks ; nation shall not lift up sword against nation , neither shall they learn war any more Appendix to Lecture VI . • LECTURE VII . ON HUMAN PERFECTIBILITY . REV . xi . 15 ...
... swords into plough- shares , and their spears into pruning - hooks ; nation shall not lift up sword against nation , neither shall they learn war any more Appendix to Lecture VI . • LECTURE VII . ON HUMAN PERFECTIBILITY . REV . xi . 15 ...
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... eye to political authority , and the power of the sword . Destitute of arguments , it can only force its way by sanguinary laws . These it procures , E by all its own arts of fallacy and fraud , AND NONCONFORMITY , 77.
... eye to political authority , and the power of the sword . Destitute of arguments , it can only force its way by sanguinary laws . These it procures , E by all its own arts of fallacy and fraud , AND NONCONFORMITY , 77.
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... sword for conversion , and the earthly nature of his paradise , deserve strong reprobation ; yet when we consider the state of gross superstition into which the Christians of the East were sunk , and the native idolatry of the Arabians ...
... sword for conversion , and the earthly nature of his paradise , deserve strong reprobation ; yet when we consider the state of gross superstition into which the Christians of the East were sunk , and the native idolatry of the Arabians ...
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... sword of conquest . So much art is not wasted in coun- terfeiting trifles . Such men would not have cared for the name of religion , had it not been a passport to power , wealth , or fame . The effects of religion , true or false , are ...
... sword of conquest . So much art is not wasted in coun- terfeiting trifles . Such men would not have cared for the name of religion , had it not been a passport to power , wealth , or fame . The effects of religion , true or false , are ...
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Page 6 - And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand, full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication, and upon her forehead was a name written ; MYSTERY ; BABYLON THE GREAT THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS, AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Page 187 - Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains and exalted above the hills and all nations shall flow unto it." (Micah iv.): 1 . " But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains...
Page 7 - And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God : and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come ; and even now already is it in the world.
Page 17 - And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily verily I say unto you ; Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.
Page 38 - THEY also are to be had accursed, that presume to say, that every man shall be saved by the law or sect which he professeth, so that he be diligent to frame his life according to that law, and the light of nature. For holy Scripture doth set out unto us only the name of Jesus Christ, whereby men must be saved.
Page 9 - For the mystery of iniquity doth already work : only he, who now letteth, will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming...
Page 188 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
Page 89 - Well, Master, Thou hast said the truth: for there is one God ; and there is none other but He : and to love Him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, He said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God.
Page 93 - For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Page 7 - Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.