God in His Works; Or, Redemption in CreationW. Curry, 1842 - 172 pages |
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Page 78 - God, •willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us."—(Heb. vi. 17, 18.)
Page 127 - concerning Judah and Jerusalem:—" And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it: and many people shall go and say, Come ye, and
Page 126 - over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one. All the land shall be turned as a plain, from Geba to Kimmon, south of Jerusalem : and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate,
Page 82 - For, behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble : and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root
Page 43 - 9-10.) Those who now despise or slight his proffered salvation, shall then in vain strive "to go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth."—(Isa. ii.
Page 151 - when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; pray ye therefore the Lord of the Harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his Harvest.
Page 82 - And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity ; the sea and the waves roaring; men's. hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken."—(Luke xxi. 25, 26.)
Page 32 - We will consider the Moon as the sun's representative. When the sun rose from his tabernacle in the east, rejoicing as a giant, to run his course—his going forth from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it, and nothing hid
Page 124 - comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord's hand double for all her sins."—(Isa. xl. 1, 2.)
Page 123 - There shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book."—(Dan. xii. 1.)