9780217438513

Apocalyptic Sketches

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ceval, Mr. Newman, all of them deelare that the Church of Rome, prior to the Reformation, was the true church, and that separation from that visible corporation was a sin or a misfortune, and union with such a corporation, as it now exists in some shape or another, is duty; now, in opposition to that, we believe that no visible church upon earth is exelusively or alone the redcemed and regenerated church. There are tares in the Church of England, tares in the Church of Scotland, tares among dissenters: the wheat and the chaff are mingled together, the gold and alloy are mixed in one mass: man cannot wholly separate them; God, in his judgments or in his mercy, I believe, will very soon separate them. Now in turning your attention to this most graphic description of the wild beast?for that is the true translation of the word Oijpiuv?that was to rise from the sea, and who exercises all the terrific functions that are here ascribed to him, it will be necessary that I show you that this is not an isolated description, but one that carries forth only more fully what is stated and impressed in others. Thus, for instance, the description contained in chap. zvii. of this book is substantially the same; and I am anxious this evening, I may just remark, by way of parenthesis, to give you a full sketeh of the wild beast that is represented as rising out of the sea, in order that, having given you in succession the Apocalyptic view of the true church and the Apocalyptic view of the false church, or the description of Christ and Antichrist, I may the next two or thrce Sabbath evenings enter upon an exposition of that portion of the Apocalypse that bears upon the very age in which we live, or the pouring out of seven vials. This evening, therefore, instead of commenting much upon the severa...

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9780217438513

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0217438512

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0.82 Pounds

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9.00 x 6.00 x 0.57 In

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$26.44

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Pages

250 pages

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2009-08-01



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