A History of the Work of RedemptionAmerican Tract Society, 1816 - 446 pages |
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... continued treatise , and published it in 1774 . This edition is a reprint from the standard edition of Edwards ' Works now generally circulated in Great Britain and the United States , and has been compared throughout with the first ...
... continued treatise , and published it in 1774 . This edition is a reprint from the standard edition of Edwards ' Works now generally circulated in Great Britain and the United States , and has been compared throughout with the first ...
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... continued chiefly in the posterity of Seth ; for this was the seed that God appointed in- stead of Abel , whom Cain slew . But we cannot rea- sonably suppose that Seth's posterity were one fifti- eth part of the world ; for Adam was one ...
... continued chiefly in the posterity of Seth ; for this was the seed that God appointed in- stead of Abel , whom Cain slew . But we cannot rea- sonably suppose that Seth's posterity were one fifti- eth part of the world ; for Adam was one ...
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... continued to be built up , in order to a further preparation for the great Savior's coming into the world for the redemp- tion of his people . I. The flood itself was a work of God that be- longed to this great design , and tended to ...
... continued to be built up , in order to a further preparation for the great Savior's coming into the world for the redemp- tion of his people . I. The flood itself was a work of God that be- longed to this great design , and tended to ...
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... continued in the family from which Christ was to proceed ; which is another instance of God's remarkably preserving his church in a time of a general deluge of wicked- ness ; and wherein , though the god of this world raged , and had ...
... continued in the family from which Christ was to proceed ; which is another instance of God's remarkably preserving his church in a time of a general deluge of wicked- ness ; and wherein , though the god of this world raged , and had ...
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... continued till Christ came , which was about fifteen hundred years . They were concluded so long a time in un- belief , that there might be a thorough proof of the necessity of a Savior ; that it might appear by so long a trial , past ...
... continued till Christ came , which was about fifteen hundred years . They were concluded so long a time in un- belief , that there might be a thorough proof of the necessity of a Savior ; that it might appear by so long a trial , past ...
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Page 46 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid ; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth ; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Page 27 - Now I say, that the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all ; but is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father. Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world...
Page 396 - Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of Hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
Page 134 - And there appeared a great wonder in heaven ; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.
Page 110 - And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
Page 381 - And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
Page 265 - And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
Page 310 - And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held : and they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth...
Page 95 - And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
Page 292 - And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths; for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.