 | Levi Coffin - 1880 - 796 sivua
...seemed so happy and hopeful, we did not think we should grasp his hand no more until we met him in ' the General Assembly and Church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven." But so it was; and now heaven has one more attraction for the thousands of friends he has left behind.... | |
 | Godfrey Holden Pike - 1880 - 354 sivua
...side the grave. How sweet must that be ! How blessed — that holy converse, that happy union, that general assembly and Church of the first-born whose names are written in heaven ! ' — The Earnest of Heaven, No. 358. VII. PART of the bliss of heaven will consist in joy over sinners... | |
 | William Augustus Cornwall - 1880 - 352 sivua
...foregoing chapter to be "that great city, the holy Jerusalem," which St. Paul, too, describes as " The general assembly and Church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven." (Heb. xii. 23.) The bride here plainly means the spiritual Church of Christ, the blessed company of... | |
 | 1880 - 1042 sivua
...faithful to conscience, to duty and to God, and when our labors on earth are done brin;; lli> home to the general assembly and church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven. Amen '. The Deputy Grand Master then, by direction of the Grand Master, declared the Grand Lodge duly... | |
 | Samuel Irenæus Prime - 1880 - 434 sivua
...sight, and so much the more so as they saw the day approaching when they would sit down in the same General Assembly and Church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven. Yet I have often thought of the solid comfort those two pastors now take in the Church on high, where... | |
 | Levi Coffin - 1880 - 758 sivua
...seemed so happy and hopeful, we did not think we should grasp his hand no more until we met him in ' the General Assembly and Church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven." But so it was; and now heaven has one more attraction for the thousands of friends he has left behind.... | |
 | rev. John Blackie - 1881 - 122 sivua
...which is to come, and not a few of those who were most regular in their attendance have now joined the general assembly and church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven. At the close of each meeting, and before the company dispersed, Mr Blackie generally gave out the following... | |
 | Samuel Irenæus Prime - 1881 - 424 sivua
...sight, and so much the more so as they saw the day approaching when they would sit down in the same General Assembly and Church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven. Yet I have often thought of the solid comfort those two pastors now take in the Church on high, where... | |
 | Holy thoughts - 1882 - 744 sivua
...the Mount Zion, the city of the living God, making one with the innumerable company of angels, and general assembly and church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven. Ah ! how does it grieve his soul to wake once again out of the trance of bliss, to open his eyes once... | |
 | 1882 - 392 sivua
...which the children of men are learning the anthems of the blessed above, and becoming meet to join the general assembly and church of the first-born whose names are written in heaven." The question is one of resource. What is there in Christianity which can make a world capitulate ?... | |
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... the general assembly and Church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven ; and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect... 
