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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 108 Seiten, L=229mm, B=152mm, H=7mm, Gew.=168gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of t… More...

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 108 Seiten, L=229mm, B=152mm, H=7mm, Gew.=168gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Light and darkness.?Babylon's 'wickedness: ?The Church the appointed standard and expositor of truth.?Apostles.?God's purpose and man's hinder ance.?Types in the wilderness.?Loss of the Church's leading ordinances, their recovery, and signs of the end of her journey. light reveals, and darkness hides the hues, Forms, and proportions of material things, However bright the visual organ be, Or sound the mind's observant faculties; John i, 4, 5. g0 Truth Divine presents realities To faith, the spirit's Heaven-illumin'd eye, Which carnal reason wilfully ignores, John iii, 19, to. Because it loves the evil things of night: But when the functions of both eye and brain Are sore diseas'd, the darken'd soul is mock'd With strange delusions, monstrous fallacies, And gleams more dangerous than midnight gloom. Isa. v, 18?z3- Thus is that state of spirit symbolized Which darkness puts for light, evil for good, Bitter for sweet, death and confusion dire For life and order's law, falsehood for facl, Proud lawlessness for Christian liberty, Man's weak inventions for the Almighty's ways, Human traditions for eternal truths; Making each dark and deadening deceit, Corrupting and destroying agency, Wherewith Satan hath sought to slay the Faith, John viii, 44. And to subvert the living Church of Christ, Appear the will, if not the work of God. Oh, lie of lies !?blackest ingratitude For sparing grace !?foulest fanaticism And blindest blasphemy of Babylon, Who boasts that sin unpunish'd is ordain'd !? Madness which makes God's mercy first the cause, And then the grand accomplice of her crimes! Yet are not the high principles of Heaven Proved by the sad antitheses of earth, Much less by darker contrasts from beneath; Nor are they abstract, hid in the far dept...<

ISBN: 0217687342