Thoughts on the Moral Order of Nature, Volume 1J. Chambers, 1831 - Natural theology |
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Page 51 - Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father ; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death ; for he hath put all things under his feet.
Page 51 - For he hath put all things under his feet! "But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted which did put all things under him.
Page 371 - But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob ? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
Page 49 - With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible," It is believed that Jesus used this example for a good reason.
Page 51 - Then cometh the end., when he (Christ) shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power...
Page 52 - ... under him. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that Ood may be all in all.
Page 43 - If we are to believe the favourers of eternal punishments, the righteous, after death, shall undergo a change that shall cause them to lose the goodness of heart which makes them now pity the deplorably wretched, however they may have earned their misery ; yet the vicious propensities of the wicked «hall remain unchanged.
Page 346 - Saviour, to strive to enter in at the strait gate which leadeth unto life...
Page 43 - ... remain unchanged. According to this doctrine, it is our evil dispositions — which are most of them derived from self love, — that are, by their nature, to last eternally ; and it la our good dispositions — in as far as they proceed from social love — that are frail and perishing.