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...ALL that I have to say to thee, my venerable friend Christophilus, reduces itself to the serious and formal examination of one single point; which, in the present constitution or system of the church and the world, appears to me of the highest importance; viz. Whether the ideas which we entertain concerning the coming of Messiah, that essential and fundamental article of...

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...OMENON IV...305 THE END OF ANTICHRIST...305 PHENOMENON V....325 THE JEWS...325 THE FUTURE ESTATE OF THE JEWS, AS IT IS ORDINARILY FOUND SET FORTH IN THE CHRISTIAN DOCTORS...328 ARTICLE I....333 ARTICLE II.....350 ARTICLE III....357 ARTICLE IV....377 CONSULTING INDEX OF VOLUME I....383...

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...................325 THE FUTURE ESTATE OF THE JEWS, AS IT IS ORDINARILY FOUND SET FORTH IN THE CHRISTIAN DOCTORS........................................ ... -1- DEDICATION. To the C HURCH OF C HRIST of all denominations who Worship God in the English tongue, and believe that Jesus Christ, who ca... ...believe that Jesus Christ, who came heretofore in suffering flesh, shall come hereafter in glory. DEARLY BELOVED IN THE LORD. My soul is greatl... ...e common faith, and servant in the Ministry of the Gospel, a Presbyter of the Church of Scotland. EDWARD IRVING. -2- PRELIMINARY DISCOUR... ... 1 Confession of faith of the Kirk of Scotland, ratified and established A.D 1587. And I may refer... ...is the Gothic kingdom, or system of power which hath obtained in Europe since the sixth century, and obtaineth unto this day. That which drove him i... ...ough I be forced to take these exceptions to his general method. Thenceforward from the 6th chapter, we have the seven acts by which he takes posses... ...llotson and his school, brought forth the religious formality and ignorance of the last century in the Church of England in the writings of Blair an... ...s should have been abandoned, and that the contrary should have obtained from the fifth century forward to our times, with such force and constancy,...

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... Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not f... ...ed in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is ... ...ng these elements together creates a larger context of awareness which result in a better understanding. For instance: what can you understand a... ... the sun actually came out from behind the moon. The mistake made almost a century ago by Einstein was subtle: a slight miscalculation, but deva... ...into two separate function zones: Inner Awareness and Outer Awareness. The 6th Major Imbalanced Split: the Amnesia of Being Born The sixth sepa... ...most powerful military weapon had been the horse-archer. Up until the 14 th Century, the superior mobility, speed and long-range killing power of ... ... few thousand years to become mostly obsolete. Iron-Age tools took less than century to become mostly obsolete. Steel-Age tools took only a few de... ...one of them. Calvinism and Lutheranism spread through Europe and England and Scotland. The effect of the Reformation was this: the idea that your ... ...gious. The effect of this idea on the working poor of Europe and England and Scotland… was something completely unforeseen but entirely natural and ...

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...Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND ................................................................ 4 TOILETTE OF THE HEBREW LADY........................................................................................ 43 CHARLEMAGNE......................

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...................... 4 THE TRUE RELATIONS OF THE BIBLE TO MERELY HUMAN SCIENCE...................... 54 SCHLOSSER?S LITERARY HISTORY OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ...................... 60 FOX AND BURKE .................................................................................................................................................... 84 JUNIUS......................

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