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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: NOT HIS COMING TO INDIVIDUALS AT DEATH. 21 that texts expressive of the one can or ought to be applied to the other. It can never be warrantable, and is often dangerous, to make that the primary and proper interpretation of a passage which is but a secondary, though it may be a very legitimate and even irresistible, application of it. Second, It is not enough that we believe the doctrines of Scripture numerically, so to speak. We must believe them as they are revealed?in their revealed collocations and bearings. Implicit submission to the authority of God's Word obviously includes this. If, then, Christ's second appearing, instead of being full in the view of the Church, as we find it in the New Testament, is shifted into the background, while other anticipations are advanced into its room, which, though themselves scriptural, do not occupy in Scripture the place which we assign to them, are we trembling at the authority and the wisdom of God in his Word, or are we not rather leaning to our own understanding ? Let not your heart be troubled, said Jesus to his sorrowing disciples: In my Father's house are many mansions: I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go away ?What then ? Ye shall soon follow me ? Death shall shortly bring us together ? Nay; but If I go away, I will come again and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. (John xiv. 1-3.) And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven ? this same Jesus, which is The author of Premillennialism a Delusion argues that, as the disembodied state knows neither spnce nor time, there can be to it no real interval between death and the resurre...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217188555 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217188559 |
| Weight | 1.27 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.88 In |
| List Price | $24.02 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 394 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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