The Life of Elder Abel Thornton: Late of Johnston, R.I. A Preacher in the Free-Will Baptist Connexion, and a Member of the R.I.Q. Meeting

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R.I.Q. Meeting, 1828 - 132 Seiten
 

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Seite 132 - Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are, While on his breast I lean my head, And breathe my life out sweetly there.
Seite 26 - No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life ; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.5 And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
Seite 11 - We are to believe, that at the last day there shall be ' a general resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust l : when they that are then found alive shall in a moment be changed ; and the self-same bodies of the dead which were laid in the grave, being then again united to their souls for ever, shall be raised up by the power of Christ u.
Seite 93 - Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the Lord, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.
Seite 10 - ... probation, in every point of which a sinner may repent and turn to God ; and in every point of it a believer may give way to sin, and fall from grace : and this possibility of rising or falling is essential to a state of trial or probation. " XXI. All the promises and threatenings of the Sacred Writings, as they regard man in reference to his being here and hereafter, are conditional ; and it is on this ground alone that the Holy Scriptures can be consistently interpreted or rightly understood....
Seite 10 - Scripture, the steady voice of reason, and the evidence of facts, as far as these could apply to the articles in question. " I. That there is but one uncreated, unoriginated, infinite, and eternal Being ; — the Creator, Preserver, and Governor of all things. " II. There is in this infinite essence a plurality of what we commonly call persons ; not separately subsisting, but essentially belonging to the Deity or Godhead; which persons are generally termed Father, Son, and Holy Ghost ; or, God, the...
Seite 11 - God from eternal ages, the true light that lighteneth every man that cometh into the world, the redemption of man, and the sanctification of our spirits.
Seite 10 - No human being, since the fall, either has, or can have, merit or vorthinest of or by himself; and therefore has nothing to claim from God but in the way of His mercy through Christ ; therefore pardon and every other blessing, promised in the Gospel, have been purchased by His sacrificial death...
Seite 11 - ... immortal, and can subsist independently of the body. " XXVIII. There will be a general resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust ; when the souls of both shall' be re-united to their respective bodies ; both of which will be immortal and live eternally.
Seite 12 - Christ ; they entered into his place ; they considered it as belonging to themselves; "they counted not their lives dear unto them, so that they might finish their course with joy, and the ministry they had received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

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