Beyond the Stars: Or, Heaven, Its Inhabitants, Occupations, & LifeT. & T. Clark, 1888 - 350 pages |
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... apostle declares , “ far above all the heavens , " it may possibly be that in this grand central metropolis of the universe . is to be found " that radiant shore " which we think of and speak of as " the better land . " CHAPTER III ...
... apostle declares , “ far above all the heavens , " it may possibly be that in this grand central metropolis of the universe . is to be found " that radiant shore " which we think of and speak of as " the better land . " CHAPTER III ...
Page 82
... apostle tells us in almost identical terms of " angels , principalities , and powers . " These passages are clear on the matter . They tell us of what we might have expected , that in heaven there are gradations of rank . It would be an ...
... apostle tells us in almost identical terms of " angels , principalities , and powers . " These passages are clear on the matter . They tell us of what we might have expected , that in heaven there are gradations of rank . It would be an ...
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... apostle had asserted and proved that the woman is subordinate to the man , and he had assumed as granted that the veil was the conventional symbol of the man's authority . The inference is that the woman ought to wear the ordinary ...
... apostle had asserted and proved that the woman is subordinate to the man , and he had assumed as granted that the veil was the conventional symbol of the man's authority . The inference is that the woman ought to wear the ordinary ...
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... Apostle Paul to us ? " Now we see through a glass darkly . " Yes , certainly it is so . No truer description of the state of our knowledge was ever given . Our hearts utter their solemn and sad Amen to the averment . Shall it be always ...
... Apostle Paul to us ? " Now we see through a glass darkly . " Yes , certainly it is so . No truer description of the state of our knowledge was ever given . Our hearts utter their solemn and sad Amen to the averment . Shall it be always ...
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... Apostle says they are witnesses mark the word . And witnesses of what ? Of how we who are left behind are running our race towards the heavenly goal . That seems a very plain intimation that they know what we are about . In the Gospel ...
... Apostle says they are witnesses mark the word . And witnesses of what ? Of how we who are left behind are running our race towards the heavenly goal . That seems a very plain intimation that they know what we are about . In the Gospel ...
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Page 302 - But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen; and if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ; whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.
Page 320 - I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved : therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad ; moreover, also, my flesh shall rest in hope : because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption...
Page 314 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell ; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Page 45 - Wherefore he saith; when he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth ? He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.
Page 317 - For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ ; which is far better: nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.
Page 108 - IN the year that king Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims ; each one had six wings ; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of Hosts ; the whole earth is full of his glory.
Page 316 - For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of GOD, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven : if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
Page 316 - Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the LORD : (for we walk by faith, not by sight :) we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the LORD.
Page 281 - The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage : But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: Neither can they die any more : for they are equal unto the angels ; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
Page 204 - Not as a child shall we again behold her ; For when with raptures wild In our embraces we again enfold her, She will not be a child ; But a fair maiden, in her Father's mansion, Clothed with celestial grace ; And beautiful with all the soul's expansion Shall we behold her face.