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Premillennial Essays of the Prophetic Conference; Second Coming of Christ With an Appendix of Critical Testimonies
Premillennial Essays of the Prophetic Conference Second Coming of Christ With an Appendix of Critical Testimonies Author:Nathaniel West General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1879 Original Publisher: F.H. Revell Subjects: Second Advent Millennium (Eschatology) Religion / Biblical Studies / Prophecy Religion / Christian Theology / Eschatology Religion / Eschatology Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no ill... more »ustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: "THE JUDGMENT, OK JUDGMENTS." BY THE BET. DB. J. T. COOPER, OF THE UNITED PBE8BYTEBIAN 8EM- INABY, ALLEGHENY, PENH. I Hate been requested to give expression to my views on a topic the very mention of which ought to awaken in the heart a most profound feeling of awe, namely: The Judgment, or Judgments. The importance and solemnity of the subject have almost deterred me from engaging in its discussion, yet I attempt it with the conviction that it is our duty, with diligence and reverence, to stnd3T and to confer with each other on the events of unfulfilled prophecy; for, in the words of Dr. Van Oosterzee, Professor of Theology in the University of Utrecht, " the stammering language of faitli is preferable to the powerless silence of unbelief." In my inquiries on this subject I have sought to be guided by the Word of God and by that alone. Isaac Taylor has well said, in his "Natural History of Enthusiasm," "Christianity being, as it is, a religion of documents and interpretation, must utterly exclude from its precincts the adventurous spirit of innovation." If this be true of every subject embraced in the Christian religion, how pre-eminently true is it of the one before us for examination ? Here, surely, it becomes reason to step aside and give place to faith. She may, indeed, give us some hints of a judgment to come, as she does of the awful fact that we live under a retributive government, and that cognizance is...« less