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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... successes ? That , in comment- ing on their petty victories over the Sabins and Latins , they should drop some hints that pointed at their African and Asiatic triumphs ; or , in tracing the shadow of freedom they enjoyed under the best ...
... successes ? That , in comment- ing on their petty victories over the Sabins and Latins , they should drop some hints that pointed at their African and Asiatic triumphs ; or , in tracing the shadow of freedom they enjoyed under the best ...
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... success of some council , then in agitation , they might have been clearly and precisely delivered ; and in fact we find that such of the Jewish predictions as foretold events of that sort and character , were so delivered : But , the ...
... success of some council , then in agitation , they might have been clearly and precisely delivered ; and in fact we find that such of the Jewish predictions as foretold events of that sort and character , were so delivered : But , the ...
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... success . The purpose of his pre- dictions is clear ; for in them the emperor is ex- pressly named : and the ablest critics make no scru- ple of applying to Augustus all those passages in this poem , which , however they may respect ...
... success . The purpose of his pre- dictions is clear ; for in them the emperor is ex- pressly named : and the ablest critics make no scru- ple of applying to Augustus all those passages in this poem , which , however they may respect ...
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... success or ca- lamity of the Jewish state : the secret purpose of the Inspirer was , occasionally at least , and when he saw fit , to predict the spiritual kingdom of the Messiah . * We have innumerable instances of this sort in the ...
... success or ca- lamity of the Jewish state : the secret purpose of the Inspirer was , occasionally at least , and when he saw fit , to predict the spiritual kingdom of the Messiah . * We have innumerable instances of this sort in the ...
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... success of that method . If we look into the history of the gospel , we shall find the apostle Peter , pressing this argu- ment from prophecy on the Gentile Cornelius ; * and the apostle Paul , urging it with effect , on the Jews indeed ...
... success of that method . If we look into the history of the gospel , we shall find the apostle Peter , pressing this argu- ment from prophecy on the Gentile Cornelius ; * and the apostle Paul , urging it with effect , on the Jews 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...