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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... - cesses and triumphs of the most illustrious nations ; those especially , which should rise to the summit of empire by generous plans of policy , and by the efforts of public virtue ; of free states , in 12 FALSE IDEAS OF PROPHECY .
... - cesses and triumphs of the most illustrious nations ; those especially , which should rise to the summit of empire by generous plans of policy , and by the efforts of public virtue ; of free states , in 12 FALSE IDEAS OF PROPHECY .
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... It was not to deliver an op- pressed nation from civil tyranny , or to erect a great civil empire , that is , to achieve one of those acts , which history accounts most heroic . No : it was 40 THE TRUE IDEA OF PROPHECY .
... It was not to deliver an op- pressed nation from civil tyranny , or to erect a great civil empire , that is , to achieve one of those acts , which history accounts most heroic . No : it was 40 THE TRUE IDEA OF PROPHECY .
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... empires , the beginning and end of Christ's spiritual kingdom . So that the reason , why those four empires only were distinguished by the spirit of prophecy , was not because they were greater than all others , but simply because the ...
... empires , the beginning and end of Christ's spiritual kingdom . So that the reason , why those four empires only were distinguished by the spirit of prophecy , was not because they were greater than all others , but simply because the ...
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... empire . The TWELVE VULTURES , he said , which appeared to Romulus , portended , that the sovereignty of that state and city , whose foundations he was then laying , should continue for the space of TWELVE HUNDRED YEARS . It is of no ...
... empire . The TWELVE VULTURES , he said , which appeared to Romulus , portended , that the sovereignty of that state and city , whose foundations he was then laying , should continue for the space of TWELVE HUNDRED YEARS . It is of no ...
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... empire , that hath hitherto subsisted on the face of the earth ; and the other , the discov- ery of a new world . Both , express the time , when these extraordinary events were to happen : the latter , by a general description , indeed ...
... empire , that hath hitherto subsisted on the face of the earth ; and the other , the discov- ery of a new world . Both , express the time , when these extraordinary events were to happen : the latter , by a general description , indeed ...
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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...