This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ... SERMON XXI. dje l&mfftiom of tlje (tuesday In Whitsun Week.) *' The stone that smote the Image became a great Mountain, and filled the whole earth." -- Daniel ii. 35. "yESTEEDAY I drew your notice to the outlines of -*- the history of the Church, and the clear and precise anticipation of it, by our ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ... SERMON XXI. dje l&mfftiom of tlje (tuesday In Whitsun Week.) *' The stone that smote the Image became a great Mountain, and filled the whole earth." -- Daniel ii. 35. "yESTEEDAY I drew your notice to the outlines of -*- the history of the Church, and the clear and precise anticipation of it, by our Lord and His Apostles. The Gospel Dispensation is confessedly a singular phenomenon in human affairs; singular, whether we consider the extent it occupies in history, the harmony of its system, the consistency of its design, its contrariety to the existing course of things, and success in spite of that contrariety, and lastly, the avowed intention of its first preachers to effect those objects, which it really has attained. They professed to be founding a Kingdom; a new Kingdom, different from any that had been before, as disclaiming the use of force, --in this world, yet not of this world, --while it was to be, notwithstanding, of an aggressive and 'encroaching character, an empire of conquest and aggrandizement, destroying all former powers, and itself standing for ever. Infidels often object to us, that our interpretation of the Scripture prophecies concerning Christ's Kingdom is after all but allegorical, and therefore evasive. Not so; we are on the whole willing to take our stand on their literal fulfilment. Christ preached that "the kingdom of God was at hand." He founded it and made Peter and the other Apostles His Vicegerents in it after His departure, and He announced its indefinite extension, and its unlimited duration. And, in matter of fact, it exists to this day, with its government vested in the very dynasty which His Apostles began, and its territory spread over more than the world then known to the Jews; with varying success...
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