America in Prophecy by Ellen White [Modern Version]

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It was apostasy that led the early church to seek the aid of the civil government, and this prepared the way for the development of the papacy--the beast. Said Paul: "There" shall "come a falling away, . . . and that man of sin be revealed." 2 Thessalonians 2:3. So apostasy in the church will prepare the way for the image to the beast. The Bible declares that before the coming of the Lord there will exist a state of religious declension similar to that in the first centuries. "In the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof." 2 Timothy 3:1-5. "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils." 1 Timothy 4:1. Satan will work "with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness." And all that "received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved," will be left to accept "strong delusion, that they should believe a lie." 2 Thessalonians 2:9-11. When this state of ungodliness shall be reached, the same results will follow as in the first centuries. The wide diversity of belief in the Protestant churches is regarded by many as decisive proof that no effort to secure a forced uniformity can ever be made. But there has been for years, in churches of the Protestant faith, a strong and growing sentiment in favor of a union based upon common points of doctrine. To secure such a union, the discussion of subjects upon which all were not agreed-however important they might be from a Bible standpoint-- must necessarily be waived. Charles Beecher, in a sermon in the year 1846, declared that the ministry of "the evangelical Protestant denominations" is "not only formed all the way up under a tremendous pressure of merely human fear, but they live, and move, and breathe in a state of things radically corrupt, and appealing every hour to every baser element of their nature to hush up the truth, and bow the knee to the power of apostasy. Was not this the way things went with Rome? Are we not living her life over again? And what do we see just ahead? Another general council! A world's convention! Evangelical alliance, and universal creed!"--Sermon on "The Bible a Sufficient Creed," delivered at Fort Wayne, Indiana, Feb. 22, 1846. When this shall be 337
gained, then, in the effort to secure complete uniformity, it will be only a step to the resort to force. When the leading churches of the United States, uniting upon such points of doctrine as are held by them in common, shall influence the state to enforce their decrees and to sustain their institutions, then Protestant America will have formed an image of the Roman hierarchy, and the infliction of civil penalties upon dissenters will inevitably result. The beast with two horns "causeth [commands] all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name." Revelation 13:16, 17. The third angel's warning is: "If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God." "The beast" mentioned in this message, whose worship is enforced by the two-horned beast, is the first, or leopardlike beast of Revelation 13--the papacy. The "image to the beast" represents that form of apostate Protestantism which will be developed when the Protestant churches shall seek the aid of the civil power for the enforcement of their dogmas. The "mark of the beast" still remains to be defined. After the warning against the worship of the beast and his image the prophecy declares: "Here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus." Since those who keep God's commandments are thus placed in contrast with those that worship the beast and his image and receive his mark, it follows that the keeping of God's law, on the one hand, and its violation, on the other, will make the distinction between the worshipers of God and the worshipers of the beast. The special characteristic of the beast, and therefore of his image, is the breaking of God's commandments. Says Daniel, of the little horn, the papacy: "He shall think to change times and the law." Daniel 7:25, R.V. And Paul styled the same power the "man of sin," who was to exalt himself above God. One prophecy is a complement of the other. Only by changing God's law could the papacy exalt itself above God; whoever should understandingly keep the law as thus changed would be giving supreme honour to that power by which the change was made. Such an act of obedience to papal laws would be a mark of allegiance to the pope in the place of God. The papacy has attempted to change the law of God. The second commandment, forbidding image worship, has been dropped from the law, and the fourth commandment has been so changed as to authorize the observance of the first instead of the seventh day as the 338
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America in Prophecy “I beheld ano
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31. Evil Spirits ..................
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must fall the horror of great darkn
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and blessed of God would be ended.
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shall be greater than of the former
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the city walls, then the followers
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Uncontrolled passions made them tyr
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Terrible were the calamities that f
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adiant with gold, which shone dazzl
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tumults, conflicts, and revolutions
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2. Ignited Fires of Persecution Whe
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persecution: You may "kill us, tort
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themselves. The Spirit of truth rev
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The mysterious providence which per
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3. An Era of Darkness The apostle P
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The detector of error having been r
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ecome firmly established. Its seat
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The darkness seemed to grow moreden
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with the leaders of the papal hiera
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When the Saxons invaded Britain, he
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papacy were early compelled to hono
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their increase. Economy and severe
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and faithfully performed it. Conver
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held to be based upon falsehood. Re
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his bones were whitening on the spo
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5. Champion of Truth Before the Ref
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Wycliffe; but the papal leaders wer
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men were directed to the Source of
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name, may the more easily overcome
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his writings heretical, and, winnin
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the people to acknowledge. Instead
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6. Two Heroes The gospel had been p
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preachers, they proceeded to exerci
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that God speaking in the Bible, and
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In a letter addressed to his friend
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expecting my sentence of death tomo
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Huss was no more, but the truths fo
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spirit; but I cannot but express my
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ooty fell into the hands of the vic
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Steadfast to the gospel, the Bohemi
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trembling to the dark future and in
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Luther was ordained a priest and wa
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Saviour Himself declared: "I came n
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hearers that it was by looking away
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of the pope, before whom ... the ki
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Their union in the work added stren
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unreasonable, was without a single
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God's hands," answered Luther. "He
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Said Jesus to His disciples: "If ye
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exposed to the scorn of the wicked,
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immediate measures for the correcti
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As the Reformer proceeded on his jo
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Another said: "When ye shall be bro
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your majesty and your august highne
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The emperor, moved to admiration, e
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the Reformer as Sigismund had dealt
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my person and my life in the empero
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thoughts returned to himself, and h
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favor. This they endeavoured to sec
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"Do not imagine," he said, "that Go
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immediately set out to oppose him.
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The victories gained by the Reforma
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10. Reform in Germany Luther's myst
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The opposition of the pope and the
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lood. But what would have been the
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Satan is constantly seeking to dece
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Persons of all ranks were to be see
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11. Princely Protest One of the nob
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If this edict were enforced, "the R
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In the presence of the Diet the kin
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to confess energetically, freely, a
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"The Lutherans, according to you, a
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12. The French Reformation The Prot
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"Salvation is of grace." "The Innoc
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Berquin was repeatedly warned of th
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During the persecution of Meaux, th
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however, at last won his consent. "
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found favor. Persons of all classes
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character. The cruelties that were
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good evil, till they had fallen vic
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abble and beaten almost to death. Y
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of all the champions of popery. Cut
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13. The Netherlands and Scandinavia
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greater, and persecuting edicts fol
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papists to overthrow the work resul
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language of England among us? . . .
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The grand principle maintained by t
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Knox, vol. 2, pp. 281, 284. Such we
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subdue the evils of the natural hea
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atoning blood of Christ, and the re
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The Methodists of those early days-
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is good and acceptable in the sight
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avowed adherents numbered more than
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The periods here mentioned--"forty
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It had been Rome's policy, under a
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The "Church in the Desert," the few
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ought forward in full procession, t
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excesses are to be charged upon the
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The gospel would have brought to Fr
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they had so long paid homage, they
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All this was as Satan would have it
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will cause them to know, this once
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16. The Pilgrim Fathers The English
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His ways made known or to be made k
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and councils in the Roman Church; s
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home, in the school, and in the chu
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17. Heralds of the Morning One of t
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ighteousness and praise to spring f
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These signs were witnessed before t
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carpenter left his tools, the black
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planting, building, marrying, and g
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the day dawn, and the daystar arise
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Oh, what a lesson is this wonderful
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18. An American Reformer An Upright
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Miller publicly professed his faith
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Thessalonians, after describing the
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point could be found for the 2300 d
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THE PROPHECY OF 2,300 DAYS One Prop
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offered upon Calvary, ended that sy
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his way to turn from it; if he do n
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phenomenon has ever occurred in thi
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sayings and doctrines of men, to th
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Scoffers pointed to the things of n
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of the Sacred Word--and that the pa
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19. Light Through Darkness The work
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They performed their duty in presen
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The event that had filled them with
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His grace, with the "crown of right
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The disappointment also, though the
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papacy, which, as foretold in proph
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them to His first coming in humilia
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in my hand."-W.H.D. Adams, In Peril
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Bengel's writings have been spread
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The movement was chiefly among the
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Many sought the Lord with repentanc
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day should overtake you as a thief.
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But Jesus and all the heavenly host
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About this time a marked change was
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condition of worldliness and backsl
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the exceeding evil and malignity of
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Christian imitates the divine Patte
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Angels are sent on missions of merc
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of their loss upon Jesus, he arouse
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32. Deadly Tricks and Snares Expose
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division which exist among the chur
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Those who are unwilling to accept t
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army of doubters, and he works to t
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ordeal of temptation, not because H
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33. First Great Deception With the
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so credulous concerning the words o
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abounding in compassion, is darkene
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abodes of bliss, there to be purifi
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love Him because they are drawn tow
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But a distinction is made between t
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The martyr Tyndale, referring to th
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classed it with the "monstrous fabl
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prove to be correct. Then, as confi
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ecomes assimilated to that which it
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It is true that spiritualism is now
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The prophet Isaiah brings to view t
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35. Liberty of Conscience Threatene
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A religion of externals is attracti
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Such was the fate of Rome's opponen
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intellectual, moral, and religious,
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fine for freemen and stripes in the
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not ignorant of the character of th
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which she herself employed in bygon
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36. The Impending Conflict From the
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Wherever the divine precepts are re
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spiritualism, and to contempt for G
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desolation. Even now he is at work.
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The dignitaries of church and state
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But multitudes have no more underst
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for themselves, they are becoming h
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truth depends not so much on the po
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psalmist: "Thy testimonies are my m
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Fearful is the issue to which the w
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As the people go to their former te
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tempted and tried. The Lord gives a
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spring up and bear fruit. The publi
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came upon Jerusalem of old. A singl
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enemy is seeking his life, and with
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They afflict their souls before God
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to pray. If we allow our minds to b
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y refusing to listen to his angels
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abundant in goodness and truth, . .
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arrow that flieth by day; nor for t
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mountaintops. Soon there will be a
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40. Great Deliverance When the prot
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Thick clouds still cover the sky; y
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The voice of God is heard from heav
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speechless now. There is the haught
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Before entering the City of God, th
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This reunion is witnessed by the an
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depth and the height, of redeeming
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The people see that they have been
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heart, I will ascend into heaven, I
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42. Controversy Ended At the close
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multitudes follow in vast companies
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The awful spectacle appears just as
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Again and again, in the progress of
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"Every battle of the warrior is wit
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which God hath prepared for them th
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All the treasures of the universe w
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"Infallibility," by Patrick J. Tone
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appointed thee each day for a year.
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An early edition is given in Migne
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Page 65. The Sabbath Among the Wald
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Chronicle of the Council of Constan
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entirely wiped out."--Concil. Tolos
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Page 284. The Atrocities of the Rei
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of the Moslem Saracens, during the
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1844, made some important admission
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pp. 226-229; S. Giacomo Baratti, La
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