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violence. I will not make use of force against the superstitious the very essence of faith.” –Ibid., b. 9, ch. 8. It was soon noised through Wittenberg that Luther had Ascending the pulpit, he with great wisdom and gentleness instructed, exhorted, and reproved. Touching the course of some who had resorted to violent measures in abolishing the mass, he said: “The mass is a bad thing; God is opposed to it; It ought to be abolished; and I would that throughout the whole world it were replaced by the supper of the gospel. But let no one be torn from it by force. We must leave the matter in God’s hands. His word must act, and not we. And why so? you will ask. Because I do not hold men’s hearts in my hand, as the potter holds the clay. We have a right to speak: we have not the right to act. Let us preach; the rest belongs unto God. Were I to employ force, what should I gain? Grimace, formality, apings, human ordinances, and hypocrisy. … But there would be no sincerity of heart, nor faith, nor charity. Where these three are wanting, all is wanting, and I would not give a pear stalk for such a result. … God does more by His word alone than you and I and all the world by our united strength. God lays hold upon the heart; and when the heart is taken, all is won. … “I will preach, discuss, and write; but I will constrain none, for faith is a voluntary act. See what I have done. I stood up against the pope, indulgences, and papists, but without violence or tumult. I put forward God’s word; I preached and wrote— this was all I did. And yet while I was asleep, … the word that I had preached overthrew popery, so that neither prince nor emperor has done it so much harm. And yet I did nothing; the word alone did all. If I had wished to appeal to force, the whole of Germany would perhaps have been deluged with blood. But what would have been the result? Ruin and desolation both to body and soul. I therefore kept quiet, and left the word to run through the world alone.” –Ibid., b. 9, ch. 8. Day after day, for a whole week, Luther continued to
preach to eager crowds. The word of God broke the spell of fanatical excitement. The power of the gospel brought back the misguided people into the way of truth. Luther had no desire to encounter the fanatics whose course had been productive of so great evil. He knew them to be men of unsound judgment and undisciplined passions, who, while claiming to be especially illuminated from Heaven, would not endure the slightest contradiction, or even the kindest reproof or counsel. Arrogating to themselves supreme authority, they required every one, without a question, to acknowledge their claims. But as they demanded an interview with him, he consented to meet them; and so successfully did he expose their pretensions, that the imposters at once departed from Wittenberg. The fanaticism was checked for a time; but several years later it broke out with greater violence and more terrible results. Said Luther, concerning the leaders in this movement: “To them the Holy Scriptures were but a dead letter, and they all began to cry, ‘The Spirit! the Spirit!’ But most assuredly I will not follow where their spirit leads them. May God in His mercy preserve me from a church in which there are none but saints. I desire to dwell with the humble, the feeble, the sick, who know and feel their sins, and who groan and cry continually to God from the bottom of their hearts to obtain His consolation and support.” –Ibid., b. 10, ch. 10. Thomas Münzer, the most active of the fanatics, was a man of considerable ability, which, rightly directed, would principles of true religion. “He was possessed with a desire of reforming the world, and forgot, as all enthusiasts do, that the reformation should begin with himself.” –Ibid., b. 9, ch. 8. unwilling to be second, even to Luther. He declared that the Reformers, in substituting the authority of Scripture for that of the pope, were only establishing a different form of popery. He himself, he claimed, had been divinely commissioned to introduce the true reform. “He who possesses this spirit,” said Münzer, “possesses the true faith, although he should never
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AUTHOR’S PREFACE BEFORE THE ENT
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are the standard of character, the
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thus besought for the Ephesian chur
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trace the unfolding of the great te
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IF THOU HADST KNOWN, EVEN THOU, AT
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ested the base of that mystic ladde
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glance took in, not years, but ages
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Israel’s monarchs, had completed
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with horror. Christ presented befor
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and the murderers of His Son. The p
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at midnight, without visible agency
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sucking child?” (Isaiah 49:15) re
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“It was an appalling spectacle to
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the malice and enmity of Satan. The
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WHEN JESUS REVEALED TO HIS DISCIPLE
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were to be exceeding glad; for grea
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There have ever been two classes am
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then let there be difference, and e
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consistent course may condemn the u
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This compromise between paganism an
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observed by the heathen as “the v
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The dragon had given to the beast
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had been faithful builders became d
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purgatory, and employed to terrify
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AMID THE GLOOM THAT SETTLED UPON TH
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follower of Christ. Repeated attemp
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unadulterated, and this rendered th
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was carefully improved; the valleys
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of a contact with the world, a know
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God was making its way through Chri
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Many were undeceived in regard to t
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upon their track, and the scene of
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BEFORE THE REFORMATION, THERE WERE
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himself deliberately in opposition
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denouncing the impiety of those who
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in shaping the action of the court,
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he would bitterly repent the evil h
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that the Reformer himself, in his o
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In closing he said: “Let us pray
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It expands the mind, sharpens the p
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THE GOSPEL HAD BEEN PLANTED IN Bohe
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among the people of all ranks. Thes
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denounced Huss as the cause of all
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in darkness, it would, if presented
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then, should we not suffer also, pa
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and state, he uttered a solemn and
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Son of David, have mercy on me,”
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tortured his soul. He knew that sti
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His words were interrupted. The pre
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and again the emperor, raising fres
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and authority; and in cases of crim
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FOREMOST AMONG THOSE WHO WERE calle
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The fear of the Lord dwelt in the h
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Scriptures, and the grace of God re
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immortal hope. At Wittenberg a ligh
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pastor, confessing their various si
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idea without having some appearance
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who had received from Luther the pr
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Page 124 and 125: of their positions. How marked the
Page 126 and 127: am reading,” he wrote, “the dec
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Page 152 and 153: prohibition, he again entered the p
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Page 158 and 159: The doctrine preached by Zwingli wa
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Page 182 and 183: their adoption of a course which wo
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Page 190 and 191: people. Could their eyes have been
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Page 202 and 203: Quietly did Calvin enter upon his w
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Page 210 and 211: The gospel of peace which France ha
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circulated. The efforts made by pap
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Steadily and surely the darkness of
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“What is to be done?” he exclai
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and most of them had been highly es
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around him, served only to quicken
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Again, as in apostolic days, persec
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John and Charles Wesley, after bein
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as good soldiers of Christ, they ha
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oth were as nothing: for though one
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either to confess their sins or to
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men to break (to dissolve, to loose
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IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY THE REFORm
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forward to a Saviour to come. The G
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to a similar denial of the claims o
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The “Church in the Desert,” the
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“The beast that ascendeth out of
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an immense concourse has assembled
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espect and obey the laws of his cou
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complain, were treated with insolen
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unbearable, and to revenge themselv
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The number of young lads and girls
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cry was heard—a cry of bitterest
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now ten thousand, yes, a hundred th
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y law, and unauthorized assemblies
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though they were burning and shinin
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to worship, or,’ he added, ‘to
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The Bible was held as the foundatio
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in former ages; pride and extravaga
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judge the earth: He shall judge the
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ones, who had hoped to live to witn
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in the year 1755, the most terrible
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olled, and a little rain fell. Towa
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udding trees of spring, and said:
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solemn and impressive language, cal
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neglect. The Jews were building mon
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and “for salvation unto the ends
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AN UPRIGHT, HONEST-HEARTED FARMER,
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“I saw that the Bible did bring t
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seducers shall wax worse and worse;
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occurred within a given time. The o
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Yet God had bidden His messenger,
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and into any city of the Samaritans
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he had received. He expected to enc
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their shops into meeting rooms; gam
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all these things, know that it is n
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William Miller possessed strong men
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This action called forth a response
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stood gazing intently upward to cat
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In view of the testimony of Inspira
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e unfolded, from age to age, as the
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was the question that tortured thei
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opened the door of hope to every ch
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died, yea rather, that is risen aga
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Those who proclaimed this warning g
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A GREAT RELIGIOUS AWAKENING UNDER t
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young he was convinced of the truth
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The groanings and lamentations of t
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neighbor in my heart, and the Bible
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It was while preparing a sermon fro
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it seems to me answers the needs of
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To William Miller and his colaborer
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called forth great opposition from
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The most humble and devoted in the
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IN PREACHING THE DOCTRINE OF THE se
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church members are becoming devotee
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If God’s professed people would r
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allowing the love of worldly things
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and other denominations by seeking
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pride of life, to gain the admirati
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declension that prevails in England
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of Babylon be complete. The change
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As early as 1842, the direction giv
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excited by the solemn message, but
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opinions above the testimony of the
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In the summer of 1844, midway betwe
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His servants. It bore the character
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Carefully and solemnly those who re
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and gave a message which Inspiratio
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frowned. I shall not now purchase t
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THE SCRIPTURE WHICH ABOVE ALL OTHER
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In their investigation they learned
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Further, the tabernacle built by Mo
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This is the mystery of mercy into w
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precious blood of Christ. The clean
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was going forward. All business was
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OUTER COURT The sanctuary in the wi
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THE SUBJECT OF THE SANCTUARY WAS TH
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from sin by the blood of sprinkling
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Ancient of Days in heaven, to the m
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urden of soul for the salvation of
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understood by Adventists, it was af
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efore, the force of the Saviour’s
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in order to the keeping of the law
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A correct interpretation of the sym
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,” and says, “Like a silent see
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of government in which the legislat
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then, in the effort to secure compl
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commandments, and shall teach men s
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THE LAW OF GOD N T I serve.” -Ma
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The Roman Church has not relinquish
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THE WORK OF SABBATH REFORM TO BE ac
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were in bondage in Egypt, many, in
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word of truth alone, withstood the
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the coming of Christ. Thus they wil
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esponsibility as was the prophet of
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“CATHOLICISM SPEAKS” -“The C
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“PROTESTANTISM SPEAKS” Methodis
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that which is not corruptible, even
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of souls desires to hinder this wor
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lessing upon them “that do His co
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of the purity and holiness of God,
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supplications before Thee for our r
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of God’s precepts, if they break
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1 Corinthians 6:19, 20. He whose bo
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Holy Spirit to them that ask Him?
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I BEHELD,” SAYS THE PROPHET DANIE
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and wipe not out my good deeds that
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their characters are found to be in
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So Christ, at the close of His work
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There they will see how often were
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from among the people. In like mann
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TO MANY MINDS, THE ORIGIN OF SIN AN
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exaltation. “Thou hast set thine
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All the powers of his master mind w
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statutes of Jehovah. Therefore it w
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abundant in goodness and truth, kee
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e forever debarred from the Creator
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I WILL PUT ENMITY BETWEEN THEE AND
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seek to deceive Christ’s follower
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greater mistake. These qualities sh
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THE CONNECTION OF THE VISIBLE WITH
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Thus God’s people, exposed to the
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upon both man and beast. The Saviou
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THE GREAT CONTROVERSY BETWEEN CHRIS
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or in His word, assent to some prin
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Human knowledge of both material an
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this renders it the more dangerous,
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that they must maintain their posit
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God or shut out His presence from H
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WITH THE EARLIEST HISTORY OF MAN, S
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immortality be obtained. Said Jesus
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of pity and compassion, and even to
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from their robes, or die as this yo
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sinner, have only to look to the cr
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them with the offers of His mercy;
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as in Adam all die, even so in Chri
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Peter, on the Day of Pentecost, dec
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men, in that He hath raised Him fro
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THE MINISTRATION OF HOLY ANGELS, as
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will be ensnared through the belief
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spiritualism presents itself under
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is a channel wholly under his contr
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messengers. The people of God shoul
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those who are kept by the power of
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The papal church will never relinqu
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so widely patronized by Protestants
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obedience painful and burdensome. A
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for heaven. He has never taught tha
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e led into the truth. Although prid
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Sunday exaltation was continued. Fo
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A man who baked bread after the nin
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enforce Sunday observance, which Ro
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of church and state is to dominate
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“HIS CHALLENGE” “Reason and s
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“QUESTION - How prove you that th
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who pride themselves upon their wis
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would obtain their neighbor’s pos
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of Sunday observance would greatly
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will withdraw His blessings from th
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or force he endeavors to rule the c
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words on minds and hearts. But the
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His warnings to the people not to f
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learn from the Scriptures what is t
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all classes. He assails the illiter
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I SAW ANOTHER ANGEL COME DOWN FROM
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The Sabbath will be the great test
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more bold and decided, the law will
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the last invitation of mercy to the
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when the times of refreshing shall
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despised His love, and trampled upo
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for many years an exile, he had set
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have been decided in the sanctuary
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words of burning anguish, while the
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where he can gain a foothold; some
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foretold the manner of His second c
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God, I have no pleasure in the deat
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“walketh righteously” is the pr
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under the oaks at noon. They have a
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of My fury; thou shalt no more drin
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look up steadfastly into heaven, an
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owed down; and the Lord alone shall
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are lighted up with His glory, and
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a stranger! Says Jesus: “I have c
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freshness and vigor of eternal yout
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those whom they have won for Christ
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delivered, for they have “washed
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through the vast realms of space, t
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made them great, and are left desti
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has been in progress; the Son of Go
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The revelator foretells the banishm
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The Biblical Millennium ended. Soo
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thy trouble, and from the hard serv
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AT THE CLOSE OF THE THOUSAND YEARS,
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just where it ceased. They are actu
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how far pride and rebellion have ca
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It is now evident to all that the w
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standing controversy has now been m
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The day has come that shall burn as
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house. Those who accept the teachin
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The pure communion with holy beings
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