Apocalyptic Sketches: Or, Lectures on the Book of Revelation. Delivered in the Large Room, Exeter Hall, in 1847-48 |
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... never witnessed in Jerusalem ; John Bunyan , in his lonely prison , had dreams and visions , approach- ing in their purity and splendour to apocalyptic scenes ; and Martin Luther , during his confinement in Wartburg , translated the ...
... never witnessed in Jerusalem ; John Bunyan , in his lonely prison , had dreams and visions , approach- ing in their purity and splendour to apocalyptic scenes ; and Martin Luther , during his confinement in Wartburg , translated the ...
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... never can be retrieved ? But , my dear friends , while this is true , and ought to be felt to be true , are we to forget that there is an end even higher than the safety of the soul - not indeed in refer- ence to us , but in reference ...
... never can be retrieved ? But , my dear friends , while this is true , and ought to be felt to be true , are we to forget that there is an end even higher than the safety of the soul - not indeed in refer- ence to us , but in reference ...
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... never dawned upon our world , and scenes to be realized , and circumstances to evolve , and dates to be reconciled , of which there is no trace of fulfilment in the past , and certainly no appear- ance in the present . There is another ...
... never dawned upon our world , and scenes to be realized , and circumstances to evolve , and dates to be reconciled , of which there is no trace of fulfilment in the past , and certainly no appear- ance in the present . There is another ...
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... never sat down , and in the calm and solemn light of eternity asked your conscience that question , to which you must one day and ought now to give an instant response- ' Am I still " dead in sins , " or am I " a child of God , and an ...
... never sat down , and in the calm and solemn light of eternity asked your conscience that question , to which you must one day and ought now to give an instant response- ' Am I still " dead in sins , " or am I " a child of God , and an ...
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... never working out its cure , but ever its perpetuity ; it is a self - generating evil - eternity does not exhaust it- it adds to it . An atonement was essential to our re- storation ; without shedding of blood , there could be no ...
... never working out its cure , but ever its perpetuity ; it is a self - generating evil - eternity does not exhaust it- it adds to it . An atonement was essential to our re- storation ; without shedding of blood , there could be no ...
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Page 277 - And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast ; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
Page 39 - And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
Page 34 - And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; And hast made us unto our God kings and priests and we shall reign on the earth.
Page 333 - Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Page 260 - ... they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword, they wandered about in sheep-skins and goat-skins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented, (of whom the world was not worthy,) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens, and caves of the earth.
Page 242 - But ye are come unto Mount Zion, and unto the city of the Living God, the Heavenly Jerusalem; and to an innumerable company of Angels, to the general assembly and Church of the first-born which are written in Heaven; and to God the Judge of all; and to the spirits of just men made perfect...
Page 45 - And I beheld when He had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake ; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood...
Page 474 - And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
Page 298 - And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them : and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
Page 81 - And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.