The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life, Volume 9S. Converse, 1830 |
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... Christ . The ark did literally contain in it the church of God , for all flesh had cor- rupted their way before God , and true religion and piety seemed to be confined to Noah and his family . The ark was made for the salvation of the ...
... Christ . The ark did literally contain in it the church of God , for all flesh had cor- rupted their way before God , and true religion and piety seemed to be confined to Noah and his family . The ark was made for the salvation of the ...
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... Christ was kept from sinking under his sufferings . It was impossible that Christ should fail in the great work that he undertook , and though his sufferings were so great , though the deluge that came upon him was so very great , the ...
... Christ was kept from sinking under his sufferings . It was impossible that Christ should fail in the great work that he undertook , and though his sufferings were so great , though the deluge that came upon him was so very great , the ...
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... Christ . They are ready of say to the Lord's Anointed , How shall this man save us ? There were but a few saved , when all the rest of the world was destroyed ; so the church of Christ is but a little flock . The door of the ark was ...
... Christ . They are ready of say to the Lord's Anointed , How shall this man save us ? There were but a few saved , when all the rest of the world was destroyed ; so the church of Christ is but a little flock . The door of the ark was ...
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... Christ's person , so also it doth Christ mystical , or the human nature of the church . In the rainbow the light of the sun is imparted to , and sweetly reflected from a cloud , that is but a vapour that con- tinues for a little while ...
... Christ's person , so also it doth Christ mystical , or the human nature of the church . In the rainbow the light of the sun is imparted to , and sweetly reflected from a cloud , that is but a vapour that con- tinues for a little while ...
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... Christ and his church . Abraham might well represent Christ , for Christ is Abraham's seed , and he might well represent the church , for he was the father of the church , the father of all that believe , as the apostle testifies . And ...
... Christ and his church . Abraham might well represent Christ , for Christ is Abraham's seed , and he might well represent the church , for he was the father of the church , the father of all that believe , as the apostle testifies . And ...
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Page 345 - the holy place. Thou hast ascended on high; thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the Lord God might dwell among them." These are the chariots in which Christ, ascended, as Elijah, in his ascension into heaven, did not ascend without chariots and horses of fire to
Page 516 - taught it, but by revelation of Jesus Christ;" and verse 15, 16, "But when it pleased God who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen, immediately 1 conferred not with flesh and blood.
Page 377 - It shall never be inhabited. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there, and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures, and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces.
Page 510 - Maketh manifest the favour of his knowledge by us in every place. For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ in them that are saved, and in them that perish. To the one we are the savour of death, unto death, and to the other we are the savour of
Page 431 - 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 nor branch. But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of Righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and
Page 33 - xlv. 22. When God should bring the seed of his church from the east, and gather them from the west, and would say to the north, Give up, and to the south, Keep not back. Bring my sons from far and my daughters from the ends of the earth. Isaiah xliii. 6,
Page 353 - became the capital city. Ezek. xxx. 13. Wells' Sacred Geography, p. 8, 9, and p. 49, 50. [349] Psalm Ixxxiv. 3. " Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars." The expletive even, which is not in
Page 490 - Many, O Lord my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts, which are to us ward ; they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee; if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered. Sacrifice and offering thou
Page 390 - remember the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness to humble thee, and to prove thee, and to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or no, and he humbled thee," &c. And ver. 16. "Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness,
Page 497 - man have praise of God. The apostle in the two foregoing verses says, " But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment; yea, I judge not mine own self, yet am I not hereby justified, but he that