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eproach which he has endeavoured to cast upon Jehovah rests wholly upon himself. And now Satan bows down and confesses the justice of his sentence. "Who shall not fear Thee, O Lord, and glorify Thy name? for Thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before Thee; for Thy judgments are made manifest." Verse 4. Every question of truth and error in the long-standing controversy has now been made plain. The results of rebellion, the fruits of setting aside the divine statutes, have been laid open to the view of all created intelligences. The working out of Satan's rule in contrast with the government of God has been presented to the whole universe. Satan's own works have condemned him. God's wisdom, His justice, and His goodness stand fully vindicated. It is seen that all His dealings in the great controversy have been conducted with respect to the eternal good of His people and the good of all the worlds that He has created. "All Thy works shall praise Thee, O Lord; and Thy saints shall bless Thee." Psalm 145:10. The history of sin will stand to all eternity as a witness that with the existence of God's law is bound up the happiness of all the beings He has created. With all the facts of the great controversy in view, the whole universe, both loyal and rebellious, with one accord declare: "Just and true are Thy ways, Thou King of saints." Before the universe has been clearly presented the great sacrifice made by the Father and the Son in man's behalf. The hour has come when Christ occupies His rightful position and is glorified above principalities and powers and every name that is named. It was for the joy that was set before Him-that He might bring many sons unto glory--that He endured the cross and despised the shame. And inconceivably great as was the sorrow and the shame, yet greater is the joy and the glory. He looks upon the redeemed, renewed in His own image, every heart bearing the perfect impress of the divine, every face reflecting the likeness of their King. He beholds in them the result of the travail of His soul, and He is satisfied. Then, in a voice that reaches the assembled multitudes of the righteous and the wicked, He declares: "Behold the purchase of My blood! For these I suffered, for these I died, that they might dwell in My presence throughout eternal ages." And the song of praise ascends from the white-robed ones about the throne: "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing." Revelation 5:12. Notwithstanding that Satan has been constrained to acknowledge God's justice and to bow to the supremacy of Christ, his character remains unchanged. The spirit of rebellion, like a mighty torrent, again bursts forth. Filled with frenzy, he determines not to yield the great controversy. The time has come for a last desperate struggle against the King of heaven. He rushes into the midst of his subjects and endeavours to inspire them with his own fury and arouse them to instant battle. But of all the countless millions whom he has allured into rebellion, there are none now to acknowledge his supremacy. His power is at an end. The wicked are filled with the same hatred of God that inspires Satan; but they see that their case is hopeless, that they cannot prevail against Jehovah. Their rage is kindled against 419
Satan and those who have been his agents in deception, and with the fury of demons they turn upon them. Saith the Lord: "Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God; behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness. They shall bring thee down to the pit." "I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. . . . I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. . . . I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. . . . Thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more." Ezekiel 28:6-8, 16-19. "Every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire." "The indignation of the Lord is upon all nations, and His fury upon all their armies: He hath utterly destroyed them, He hath delivered them to the slaughter." "Upon the wicked He shall rain quick burning coals, fire and brimstone and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup." Isaiah 9:5; 34:2; Psalm 11:6, margin. Fire comes down from God out of heaven. The earth is broken up. The weapons concealed in its depths are drawn forth. Devouring flames burst from every yawning chasm. The very rocks are on fire. The day has come that shall burn as an oven. The elements melt with fervent heat, the earth also, and the works that are therein are burned up. Malachi 4:1; 2 Peter 3:10. The earth's surface seems one molten mass--a vast, seething lake of fire. It is the time of the judgment and perdition of ungodly men--"the day of the Lord's vengeance, and the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion." Isaiah 34:8. The wicked receive their recompense in the earth. Proverbs 11:31. They "shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts." Malachi 4:1. Some are destroyed as in a moment, while others suffer many days. All are punished "according to their deeds." The sins of the righteous having been transferred to Satan, he is made to suffer not only for his own rebellion, but for all the sins which he has caused God's people to commit. His punishment is to be far greater than that of those whom he has deceived. After all have perished who fell by his deceptions, he is still to live and suffer on. In the cleansing flames the wicked are at last destroyed, root and branch-Satan the root, his followers the branches. The full penalty of the law has been visited; the demands of justice have been met; and heaven and earth, beholding, declare the righteousness of Jehovah. Satan's work of ruin is forever ended. For six thousand years he has wrought his will, filling the earth with woe and causing grief throughout the universe. The whole creation has groaned and travailed together in pain. Now God's creatures are forever delivered from his presence and temptations. "The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they [the righteous] break forth into singing." Isaiah 14:7. And a shout of praise and triumph ascends from the whole loyal universe. "The voice of a great multitude," "as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings," is heard, saying: "Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth." Revelation 19:6. 420
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Table of Contents Chapter 1. World
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The history of more than a thousand
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Jerusalem, thou that killest the pr
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their Master, saying: "See what man
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offer of mercy. Then God withdrew H
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experienced. A measure of wheat was
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the heights; all along the walls re
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are absorbed in pleasure, in busine
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miles beyond the city walls. In the
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the light so graciously permitted t
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injustice and oppression? This is a
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It is one of the leading doctrines
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commandment, God is revealed as the
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The darkness seemed to grow more de
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The palaces of popes and prelates w
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introduced among the people. A scho
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grandeur, befitting the mighty trut
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mine has rich veins of gold and sil
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for weary hours upon the cold, damp
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danger to their cause from the labo
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Chapter 5. Champion of Truth Before
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upon the resources of the people, b
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The papal thunders were soon hurled
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it, but it was with difficulty that
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Thus Wycliffe presented to the pope
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their faith, and went out of their
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spiritual blessings which it profes
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had not renounced her authority. Th
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may resist them; and that He will a
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his final decision, Huss declared h
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his sufferings, in the assurance of
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Erelong sentence of condemnation wa
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the whole church to both the bread
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Chapter 7. A Revolution Begins Fore
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heart which would enable him to sta
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But light and darkness cannot harmo
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the university and in the whole cit
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had so long been held. The people w
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Life and Times of Luther, pages 271
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also the truth had extended. Thousa
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every day how difficult it is to la
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specially entrusted, was alarmed an
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gave greater influence to his words
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in the name of the Lord; I would ap
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afterward to answer with a prudence
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Luther had spoken in German; he was
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against him and his adherents as co
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safe-conduct. I place my person and
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these to be secured. In the solitud
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display, in attracting the people t
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Hoping yet to secure him to their c
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was given to the reform by the appe
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day presented. These papers two oth
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One of these prophets claimed to ha
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our united strength. God lays hold
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Counterfeit holiness, spurious sanc
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the people had found in the new tea
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should reject the former." Said Mel
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therefore tried the art of persuasi
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control to destroy religious libert
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writer, "there has never been a gre
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Chapter 12. The French Reformation
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king himself, and the queen mother,
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"Just at that time an image of the
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expression of peace which rested up
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could not long remain inactive. As
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the unsuspected heretics that had b
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dragged forward to the block, and t
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enounce the vices that had flourish
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countries to resist the tyranny of
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faith. He soon after witnessed in a
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high hopes upon him as a valiant de
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Chapter 14. England’s Reforms Whi
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most of them had been highly esteem
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of John Knox, vol. 2, pp. 281, 284.
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efuge in Saxony, there maintained t
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moved by the Spirit of God, and uni
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Others, also holding that "the elec
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not thank you for your labour. It i
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new pope was soon afterward elected
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nations, uplift their united voice
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sent Charles the Golden Rose; and f
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was elevated on the high altar, and
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away from the practice of self-deni
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from the homes and hearts of men. N
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was nevertheless surely working out
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Chapter 16. Land of Liberty The Eng
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shining lights in their time, yet t
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ights; that among these are life, l
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truly idolaters as were the worship
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perpetual hill did bow: His ways ar
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as being the accomplishment of all
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"Candles were used; and hearth fire
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and punish the men that are settled
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Heavenly angels had seen the glory
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Chapter 18. An American Reformer An
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eference to the matter under consid
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"Another kind of evidence that vita
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together. The seventy weeks were de
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31 A.D - The Crucifixion of Jesus C
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efore darkened mind, that I felt a
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second advent. Said Jesus: "The sta
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Earnest were the efforts put forth
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and "a rock of offense" to His prof
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Chapter 19. Light Through Darkness
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Though the night of sorrow gathered
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And as the very first step in impar
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Those who proclaimed this warning g
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Chapter 20. The Awakening A great r
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was led to accept the Romish faith
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he carried with him wherever he wen
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As he pursued his investigation of
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of the first angel's message had it
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when His advent is near, will be as
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Chapter 21. A Warning Rejected In p
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they themselves could not but admit
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touchingly portrayed: "I sware unto
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as the old disciples retired to the
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lovers of the world, conformers to
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Chapter 22. Prophecies Fulfilled Wh
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truth or a genuine work of grace in
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the errors of extremists and fanati
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27 A.D - The Baptism and Unction of
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Believers saw their doubt and perpl
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their faith. Some who had been very
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discouraged. . . . My hope in the c
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Chapter 23. What is the Sanctuary?
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which the cloud of fragrance, with
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enews His intercourse with the fall
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make an atonement for the holy plac
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saw that, instead of coming to the
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expected Him to come to earth, "in
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mediation, and at its close to rece
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upon the manner in which they treat
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the Sabbath day, and hallowed it."
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in the distinction between the Crea
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prophet as "coming up" in 1798. Amo
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The wide diversity of belief in the
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of the week."--A. E. Waffle, The Lo
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Chapter 26. A Work of Reform The wo
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pious men have died happy while kee
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future for the coming of Christ. Th
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Chapter 27. Revival Wherever the wo
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e manifest what is thought to be gr
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The first step in reconciliation to
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him instruction, Daniel says: "My c
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fruits of the Spirit--"love, joy, p
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and bless him. It is not the will o
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ook was opened, which is the book o
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Himself to "the first dominion." Mi
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In the judgment the use made of eve
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many years this work has been in pr
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one that chose to pervert this free
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Jehovah. His high position, in such
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spirit of hatred and resistance. Wh
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Every mouth will be stopped, and al
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outward advantages. But the purity
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agent of the adversary of souls. Wh
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ecome the lions' prey; to Peter, do
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(Luke 4:33-36), disturbed the Sabba
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Chapter 32. Deadly Deceptions Expos
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wrested from their true meaning. Th
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makes it also harder to meet. If me
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But those who doubt God's promises
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Chapter 33. First Great Deception W
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Thus the archfiend clothes with his
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inebriation, die with the scarlet s
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"No fornicator, nor unclean person,
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In consequence of Adam's sin, death
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there is not a doctrine in the pres
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Chapter 34. Can Our Dead Speak to U
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Redeemer to an exceedingly high mou
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where he wants it; the Saviour of t
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which Heaven has provided as a defe
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liberty of conscience are a most pe
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There is a striking similarity betw
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The papacy is just what prophecy de
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transferred to the Lord's Day."--Ro
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The history of the churches of Ethi
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And let it be remembered, it is the
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verily as it existed among ancient
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Clinging to the papal error of natu
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Page 410 and 411: hosts shall be upon everyone that i
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Page 422 and 423: in the last solemn service of the D
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Page 426 and 427: God. With fiendish exultation he po
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