| 918 sivua
...saints made perfect, have among them many who justify the charitable hope that they belong to the " general assembly and church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven." The following observations of Mr. Beale, on the character and labours of a long-tried agent of the... | |
| Oliver Reywood - 1826 - 596 sivua
...souls are joined already to the celestial inhabitants, "to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven; to God the judge of all." Such honour have all his saints, above kings and princes on earth ; though... | |
| 1826 - 416 sivua
...Lamb;" then farewell church militant and false brethren, and welcome church triumphant, even " the general assembly and church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven;" then farewell all those exceeding great and precious promises, which are now as sweet cordials to Zion's... | |
| Charles Wolfe, John Abraham Russell - 1827 - 500 sivua
...us, that " we are come to the heavenly " Jerusalem, — to an innumerable company of " angels, to the general assembly and church " of the first-born whose names are written in " heaven, and to the spirits of just men made " perfect." This is the Christian's hope — that he shall be like the... | |
| John Mitchel (Presbyterian minister.) - 1828 - 282 sivua
...God, through a crucified Saviour, shall be added "to the general 260 THE MOTIVES, MEANS, AND END, &c. assembly and church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven ; — to the spirits of just men made perfect; — to an innumerable company of angels ; — to Jesus... | |
| Joseph Ives Foot - 1829 - 66 sivua
...and may the Lord add to the numbers and graces of his church, and finally bring us all to join the general Assembly, and Church of the First-born, whose names are written in heaven. Amen. Reverend Thomas Cheney was graduated at Harvard College, 1711. He is described as an acceptable... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 396 sivua
...all be fully gathered together, they will in fact be one glorious assembly. We find it called ' the general assembly and church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven.' The Independent can find no other description of a church in the New Testament; not a trace of a diocese... | |
| William Orme - 1830 - 538 sivua
...heaven, whom he knew and loved, did much sweeten and familiarise heaven to him. The description of it, in Heb. xii. 22, was most comfortable to him; ' that...first-born, whose names are written in heaven ; and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the Mediator of the new... | |
| Richard Baxter - 1830 - 942 sivua
...heaven, whom he knew and loved, did much sweeten and familiarise heaven to him. The description of it, in Heb. xii. 22, was most comfortable to him ; ' that...first-born, whose names are written in heaven ; and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the Mediator of the new... | |
| Plumpton Wilson - 1830 - 270 sivua
...where he thought that the spirits of the just are made perfect, because he had not read aright of that general assembly and church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven —that assembly where with the innumerable company of angels are also the once mortal spirits of the... | |
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