The Christian World: The Magazine of the American and Foreign Christian Union, Volume 4

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The Union, 1853
 

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Page 445 - And in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame.
Page 303 - For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book : and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
Page 388 - We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts : knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
Page 441 - I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me: and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Page 389 - I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel ; which is not another ; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
Page 442 - If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on My holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour Him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words : then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord...
Page 338 - Is there any principle, in the tenets of the " catholic faith, by which catholics are justified in " not keeping faith with heretics, or other persons " differing from them in religious opinions, in " any transaction either of a public or a private "nature?
Page 445 - Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house : for I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
Page 443 - Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law : That every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
Page 115 - When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.

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