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The Great Preparation; Or Redemption Draweth Nigh

The Great Preparation; Or Redemption Draweth Nigh

Cumming, John

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1151254045
ISBN13: 9781151254047
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.17 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1864 Excerpt: ... PREFACE. To the student of prophecy, the annals of the day and the hour rushing past are full of interest. He hears in the events of the present the echoes of ancient prophecies. He sees the inspired word translating itself into facts. To his mind, great statesmen and soldiers are not the sculptors, but the chisels only in the hands of the Divine Sculptor; and the policy of cabinet, and congress, and divan is merely the filling up of the grand programme laid down nearly two thousand years ago. God is in prophecy its inspiration; God is in history its actor. Standing where prophecy is rushing into history, let us carefully and calmly observe its currents, and gather and garner in our hearts hopes, and joys, and bright expectancies that sparkle on the waters and in the sweet sunshine. Fanaticism, and passion, and prejudice, must have no place in such researches. Dogmatism is no less unchristian. Good men differ on the details of many of the great themes which constitute the burden of the prophetic records. On these it becomes us to speak in temperate language, and with the utmost reserve. But on the leading truths, and their application, there prevails on all sides great unanimity of judgment; a unanimity that increases every day. The writer does not pretend to any originality: he is content to follow, not to lead. Such men as Bishops Horsley and Newton, Sir Isaac Newton, Mede, Dr. Chalmers, Bickersteth, and Faber, among those who have gone up higher; Bishops Villiers and Bickersteth, Edward B. Elliot, McNeile, Dallas, Freemantle, Keith, Bonar, Chamberlain among living divines; Lord Carlisle, and the Author of Armageddon, and others, have all written with more or less power and originality, and with marvellous agreement, on the subject of prophecy. The lea...

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