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. 1883 Excerpt: ...against the peace and life of man. From the ground spring up tares with the wheat thorns and thistles, and noxious weeds, and poisonous herbs, innumerable. The sky above us holds the angry cloud, the destructive cyclone, and the forked lightning. While the earthquake, the volcano, the wasting pestilence, and famine, ...
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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. 1883 Excerpt: ...against the peace and life of man. From the ground spring up tares with the wheat thorns and thistles, and noxious weeds, and poisonous herbs, innumerable. The sky above us holds the angry cloud, the destructive cyclone, and the forked lightning. While the earthquake, the volcano, the wasting pestilence, and famine, and many other forms of evil, riot on human hopes, waste and destroy man's life and happiness; and all because he is an apostate. I do not affirm, that all the destructive elements and forces which exist and operate in nature, are the direct effects of transgression, or are consequent upon its introduction and prevalence in the kingdom of moral intelligences, as the result of physical laws. But I do hold that these things enter into the framework of the physi-al, in the creative purpose of God, in order to correspond with the state of things now existing in the spiritual kingdom, which was foreseen from the beginning and provided against; and for the very purpose of Subordinating them to "moral uses," when the fullness of time had come, as it did come, when the "one Mediator between God and men" assumed his office, and began his moral administration, in order to accomplish a reconciliation that should pervade the entire system of being, and endure throughout everlasting ages. But no where are the direct and dire effects of sin, as an element of strife, so marked, and so fearful to contemplate, as on the moral constitution of man. Man was made in the "image of God;" but sin has dethroned him, and debased him, even to hell. He was made only "a little lower than the angels, ' endowed with marvelous gifts, and possibilities, and placed in a position in which he held in his own hands a most exalted and glorious desti...
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Very good. First Edition. 1883 Hardcover First Edition. NOT a facsimile. Ex-Library. Text is clean, Binding is strong. 525 pages + catalog. Inside hinge papers are partially cracked. Brown cloth cover, stamped borders, gold lettering and Cross illustration. Corners are lightly rubbed, spine ends have very tiny wrinkles & tears. **NO International shipping. **