The Intermediate State, and Christ Among the Dead, Tr. by J.F. Sch N

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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: dence of God, that the great number of Old Testament witnesses should not be made perfect without the believers of the New Covenant.1 And in describing the longing of martyrs, that Christ might ver...(展開全部) 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: dence of God, that the great number of Old Testament witnesses should not be made perfect without the believers of the New Covenant.1 And in describing the longing of martyrs, that Christ might very soon manifest his holiness and justice in their full measure against the wicked, both their ardent desires, and the answer which these martyrs received, are a plain proof, that even those saints who have sealed their faith in Christ by a martyr's death, have not yet obtained that eternal happiness promised to them; but are told to wait until the measure of sin, as well as the measure of the blood of martyrs is made full.2 10. As those men who are not in the kingdom of God are not condemned, until the time of grace is fully run down, and, as at the last coming of Christ, in the last day all the wicked are assembled together; so, in like manner, can no individual member of the kingdom of God be made perfect, or attain to the most intimate communion with God, before all the members of Christ's body are gathered together.3 11. Sure and certain as the consoling promise of our Lord is: " He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth, and believeth in me shall never die;"4 it is also just as certain that the life of our souls and spirits cannot be interrupted by the decease of the body. But if this be just as certain, as that the souls of the departed, after

The Intermediate State, and Christ Among the Dead, Tr. by J.F. Sch N

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