The Orthodod Theology of To-day, Issue 362

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R.D. Dickinson, 1882 - 124 pages
 

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Page 66 - ... to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles ; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom ; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus : whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
Page 15 - Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen ; and ye receive not our witness. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?
Page 82 - And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes.
Page 115 - The Protestant theologians carried their opposition to purgatory so far as to obliterate the whole doctrine of the intermediate state. The Westminster Confession (c. xxxii.) declares that " the souls of the righteous," at death, " are received into the highest heavens," and " the souls of the wicked are cast into hell ; " and adds : " Besides these two places for souls separated from their bodies, the Scripture acknowledgeth none.
Page 101 - But ye are come unto Mount Zion ; and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem ; and to an innumerable company of angels ; to the general assembly and church of the first-born, which are written in heaven ; and to God, the Judge of all; and to the spirits of just men made perfect...
Page 1 - Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. 16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
Page 89 - Biblical teaching of immortality comes to fruition in this final truth of the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven.
Page 56 - ... It is found in Job, the oldest of known books, when he says of man, that " his soul within him shall mourn ;" it is repeated in Isaiah, when he says of the Assyrian empire under the figure of a forest, it shall be consumed, "both soul and body;" it occurs again when Christ will have men to fear God, who " is able to destroy both soul and body...
Page viii - for the purpose of helping among men the removal of some common difficulties in the way of the coming of a better day of faith.
Page 82 - Jesus' express declaration that unto everyone that hath shall be given, but from him that hath not shall be taken away...

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