An Introduction to the Study of the Prophecies Concerning the Christian Church, And, in Particular, Concerning the Church of Papal Rome: in Twelve Sermons ...Farrand, Mallory, and Company Samuel T. Armstrong, printer, Charlestown., 1809 - Antichrist - 342 pages |
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... supposed them to be of this stamp . When men had nothing to trust to , in their predictions , but their own ingenuity , they did well to deal in equivocal or enigmatic expression , and might leave it to chance , or to the passions of ...
... supposed them to be of this stamp . When men had nothing to trust to , in their predictions , but their own ingenuity , they did well to deal in equivocal or enigmatic expression , and might leave it to chance , or to the passions of ...
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... supposed obscurity of the scriptural prophecies . Of smaller scruples and difficulties on this head , there is no end . Men may ask , for instance , why the instruments employed in conveying these celestial notices to mankind , are ...
... supposed obscurity of the scriptural prophecies . Of smaller scruples and difficulties on this head , there is no end . Men may ask , for instance , why the instruments employed in conveying these celestial notices to mankind , are ...
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... supposed to point at Jesus : and the controversy concerning the application of some prophecies to him may be thought difficult . But it is very certain that the Jews , before the coming of Christ , gave this con- struction to their ...
... supposed to point at Jesus : and the controversy concerning the application of some prophecies to him may be thought difficult . But it is very certain that the Jews , before the coming of Christ , gave this con- struction to their ...
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... supposed in fa- vour of prophecy . Because , though all conclu- sions from a principle of human invention must be hazardous and rash , yet from a principle of divine authority many sober and just inferences may be drawn . For it is one ...
... supposed in fa- vour of prophecy . Because , though all conclu- sions from a principle of human invention must be hazardous and rash , yet from a principle of divine authority many sober and just inferences may be drawn . For it is one ...
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... furnish a suitable attestation to it , must needs be supposed to adapt itself to the nature of the dis- pensation ; that is , to have different degrees of clearness or obscurity according to its place in the general 54 CONCLUSIONS FROM THE.
... furnish a suitable attestation to it , must needs be supposed to adapt itself to the nature of the dis- pensation ; that is , to have different degrees of clearness or obscurity according to its place in the general 54 CONCLUSIONS FROM THE.
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Page 36 - Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come ; that Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.
Page 106 - Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Page 158 - Thy people also shall be all righteous : they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified. A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation : I the Lord will hasten it in his time.
Page 303 - And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another, and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
Page 151 - It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a Light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
Page 78 - I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me. 19 Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am he.
Page 158 - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: which indeed is the least of all seeds : but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
Page 287 - And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
Page 277 - ... shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
Page 156 - Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt...