 | Society for the Promotion of Collegiate and Theological Education - 1844 - 608 pages
...elated or depressed according to present success or failure. In the Catholic Church, on the other hand, a ' thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years.' We work hy system, and lay our plans for all time to come ; and when your temporary plans are forgotten,... | |
 | 1844 - 490 pages
...the effect of his atoning sacrifice as complete now, as they were eighteen hundred years ago. To him a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years." " I doubt not his grace," said the poor youth, with a deep sigh, "God forbid that I should. But, granting... | |
 | 1845 - 582 pages
...who is the Eternal Now — the great I AM — who is " the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever ;" with whom " a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years" — " from everlasting to everlasting" He is God ! Let, then, the Christian householder be ever bringing... | |
 | 1845 - 384 pages
...nature. The blessings of eternal redemption had been antedated through the tender mercies of our God, with whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years; in virtue of covenant engagements to be performed in time, mercy, through the Redeemer, instantly commenced... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1846 - 496 pages
...believe that the formation of the earth was contemporaneous with that of the rest of the planets ; bnt they show that creation is the work of Him with whom...are as one day, and one day as a thousand years." In the work now brought to a conclusion, it has been necessary to select from the whole circle of the... | |
 | William Henry Platt - 1883 - 352 pages
...nor ever excessive. Assured of her own providence and resources, she is patient of results. With her a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years. Nature perfects what nature preserves, and it preserves what it perfects; and, if nature has evolved... | |
 | Faithful words - 1883 - 228 pages
...slack concerning His promise as some men count slackness. Now, how true is this of our times ! With Him a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years. (2 Pet.iii.8.) He has said that judgment is coming on this world, and therefore come it will. He has... | |
 | John Wesley Hanson - 1884 - 428 pages
...salvation of any. It does indeed cast a ray of light into our lives to feel and know that a righteous God, with whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years, will some time in the far future, somewhere in the ceaseless ages of eternity, be triumphant, bring... | |
 | Frederick Temple - 1884 - 284 pages
...from the great argument. It seems in itself something more majestic, something more befitting Him to Whom a thousand years are as one day and one day as a thousand years, thus to impress His Will once for all on His creation, and provide for all its countless variety by... | |
 | 1884 - 1124 pages
...stipulations in the Covenant remain unfulfilled at this day 1 ... Will it not be held in remembrance by Ono with whom ' a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years?'"1 " The later history of Presbyterian Covenanting," says Mr. Agnew, " exhibits it as a badge... | |
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Bacon, that the words of prophecy are to be interpreted as the words of one 'with whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years. 
