History of Utah, 1540-1886

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History Company, 1889 - Utah - 808 pages
 

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Page 360 - And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not, I will lead them in paths that they have not known : I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake . them.
Page 336 - Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? Why are they then baptized for the dead?
Page 488 - The jurisdiction of the several courts herein provided for, both appellate and original, and that of the Probate Courts and of justices of the peace, shall be as limited by law.
Page 129 - The Mormons must be treated as enemies and must be exterminated or driven from the state, if necessary for the public good.
Page 161 - And again, as pertaining to the law of the Priesthood : If any man espouse a virgin, and desire to espouse another, and the first give her consent ; and if he espouse the second, and they are virgins, and have vowed to no other man, then is he justified ; he cannot commit adultery, for they are given unto him; for he cannot commit adultery with that that belongeth unto him and to no one else...
Page 167 - Inasmuch as this Church of Christ has been reproached with the crime of fornication, and polygamy : we declare that we believe, that one man should have one wife ; and one woman, but one husband, except in case of death when either is at liberty to marry again.
Page 377 - God; for I am the Lord thy God, and ye shall obey my voice; and I give unto my servant Joseph, that he shall be made ruler over many things, for he hath been faithful over a few things, and from henceforth I will strengthen him.
Page 126 - Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse's heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
Page 375 - Then shall they be gods, because they have no end; therefore shall they be from everlasting to everlasting, because they continue; then shall they be above all, because all things are subject unto them.
Page 374 - Therefore, prepare thy heart to receive and obey the instructions which I am about to give unto you ; for all those who have this law revealed unto them must obey the same...

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