 | 1839 - 442 páginas
...that when Christ, who is your life, shall appear, ye also may appear with him in glory, and join the general assembly and church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven, and whose employment is singing, " To Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,... | |
 | William Campbell - 1839 - 644 páginas
...consecrated to a 188 INCREASE OF CHRISTIANS. purer worship in the sanctuary above ; and gathered now to the general assembly and church of the firstborn whose names are written in heaven, he will shine, among them, I doubt not, as a star for ever and ever. Such are a specimen of our Christian... | |
 | John White Chickering - 1839 - 276 páginas
...that rest which remaineth for the people of God ! The crowded and solemn assembly, reminds him of the general assembly and church of the first-born, whose names are written in Heaven. The praises of the sanctuary, seem to him, an anticipation of the new song which the redeemed will... | |
 | David Holt - 1839 - 304 páginas
...denominations in this world be what they may, if this be our happy experience, we shall belong to " the general assembly and church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven." But this divine spirit, which strives with man for his good, if neglected or resisted, will be gradually... | |
 | James Endell Tyler - 1840 - 442 páginas
...that holy army of martyrs; he could speak as though he were an eyewitness of what he describes, of the general assembly and church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven. And, surely, had the thought of seeking the support or intercession of saint or angel by invocation addressed... | |
 | 1840 - 456 páginas
...who is invisible. To sit down even now in heavenly places in Christ. Even now, he is " come to the assembly and church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven," and " to the spirits of the just made perfect; " and shall he indeed forego this sweet society, for the period... | |
 | Thomas Spencer - 1840 - 282 páginas
...engaged by far too much of our attention through the week ; on God's own day, then, let us rise " to the general assembly and church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven :" let us, in spirit at least, join " the spirits of the just made perfect,*' in their admiration of... | |
 | John Owen - 1840 - 878 páginas
...of this state is, that therein TT 2 believers come iravrtyvott KOI tuicXrianf TT^WTOTOKWV, ' to the general assembly and church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven.' Both the words here used, Trarij-yupic and iKtcXriaia, are borrowed from the customs of those cities,... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1841 - 586 páginas
...city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, to the m, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles ; the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus (to blessed Jesus) the... | |
 | Richard Marks - 1841 - 270 páginas
...through the merits and sacrifice of the Lord Jesus, we shall. I trust. again meet, and form a part of the general assembly and church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven ; and who there ever behold and praise Him who was dead, and is alive again. and hath redeemed them to God... | |
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The description of heaven in Heb. xii. 22, was most comfortable to him ; that he was going to the " innumerable company of angels, and to the general assembly and Church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven... 
