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. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... And, after a time, nothing would be more natural in heaven or on earth than for the leading spirit in this disaffection and rebellion to plan a united opposition to the edict that had been announced. But even after such a new exhibition of sinfulness, the Deity, as might be expected, and as the ...
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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. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... And, after a time, nothing would be more natural in heaven or on earth than for the leading spirit in this disaffection and rebellion to plan a united opposition to the edict that had been announced. But even after such a new exhibition of sinfulness, the Deity, as might be expected, and as the Scriptures hint, would be infinitely merciful to those who had planned the rebellion and were carrying it on. They seem, as a matter of fact, to have had free access to the angelic abodes as late as the time of the patriarch Job, four thousand years ago.18 And there are passages from which one easily may infer that their final banishment from the blessings of the invisible world did not take place until the ministry of Jesus had begun on earth." It is as if for thousands of years after their disobedience the Deity was holding in his own the hands of those rebellious subjects, try ing all the while, before it should be too late, to win them back to their former allegiance. But they would not return; they preferred rebellion, and the possibility of reform vanished in darkness. Still the world may rest assured that they were not given over to a final doom until longer forbearance became an offense, perhaps peril, to the universe. They had all the opportunity to do right that intelligent beings could ask, or that a merciful God could grant. But, on the other hand, they have had abundant opportunity to fill up the cup of their iniquity to the brim, and thus show to the children of men, as well as to the sinless hosts of heaven, the depth of wickedness to which their continued and voluntary disobedience has plunged them. It is not improbable, however, that some of the disobedient angels, in prehistoric times, discovered their mistake, and before it was...
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