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The coming of the Messiah.

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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 t...

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...CONTENTS DEDICATION...1 PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE BY THE TRANSLATOR.....3 PART II...32 CHAPTER I.....33 CHAPTER II....46 CHAPTER III ....67 CHAPTER IV....85 CONCLUSION AND SUMMARY...113 TO THE READER....129 A CRITIQUE OF THE WORK ...130 DEDECATION....135 PREFACE.....1...

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...LORY AND MAJESTY BY JUAN JOSAFAT BEN-EZRA, A CONVERTED JEW TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH, WITH A PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE, BY THE REV. EDWAR... ................................................................1 PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE BY THE TRANSLATOR. ................................................ ....................................................................................113 TO THE READER. .................................................... ...ath she shall be clean dissolved, as the synagogue was heretofore in the destruction of Jerusalem, when she in like manner had filled up the measure... ... the nations to their own land, and occasion that great warfare in the neighbourhood of Jerusalem, when Antichrist shall fall, and his powers be brok... ... hasting righteousness; and send forth the law from Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem; and rule among the nations, and be the Prince of ... ..., popery, and infidelity. In like manner the seventh trumpet with its seven thunders is postponed, and along with the seventh seal laid out in detai... ...ion of the Man of Sin:” but lest they might abuse this gracious intimation, and in idea postpone the day of the Lord beyond their life- time, and so ... ...attended with the most prejudicial effects upon the soul. The resurrection being so far postponed, and a certainty of long continuance given to the ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and the LORD his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly -- 2. Then Solomon spake unto all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and...

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...The Second Book of the Chronicles THE THE THE THE THE FOUR FOUR FOUR FOUR FOURTEENTH TEENTH TEENTH TEENTH... ... TEENTH TEENTH BOOK BOOK BOOK BOOK BOOK OF OF OF OF OF T T T T THE HE HE HE HE H H H H HOL OL OL OL OLY Y Y Y Y B B B B BIBLE IBLE IBLE IB... ...E IBLE IBLE CONT CONT CONT CONT CONTAINING AINING AINING AINING AINING THE THE THE THE THE O O O O OLD LD LD LD LD AND AND AND AND AND N N N N... ...place which David had prepared for it: for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem. 5 Moreover the brasen altar, that Bezaleel the son of Uri, the s... ...Then Solomon came from his journey to the high place that was at Gibeon to Jerusalem, from before the tabernacle of the congregation, and reigned over... ...nd horsemen, which he placed in the chariot cit ies, and with the king at Jerusalem. 15 And the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem as plenteous a... ...the gold was gold of Parvaim. 7 He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved ... ...ey had not done it of a long time in such sort as it was written. 6 So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Is... ...m you, if ye return unto him. Second Chronicles 29:36 – 30:9 57 10 So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh ...

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Excerpt: The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells.

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...Bishop by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...ate Uni- versity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...hanical ex- pert of some sort, a railway peer, geniuses, hairy and Celtic, people of no clearly definable position, but all quite unequal to the task ... ...h and reality. London had not disillusioned him. It was a strange waste of people, it made him feel like a mis- sionary in infidel parts, but it was a... ... tuality, the curious silliness which has, ever since the destruc- tion of Jerusalem, hung about the exposition of Christian- ity…. But if the Bishops... ...atisfaction as he rattled through the streets, the glare of the recruiting posters on every vacant piece of wall and the increasing number of men in k... ...ations.” “But what are practical considerations in such a case?” “That’s a post-graduate subject, Norah,” her father said with a smile and a sigh. “Bu... ...put in words. One sat frozen—waiting for what would happen next.” “We must postpone the Pringle confirmation,” said Whippham. “I wonder to whom I coul...

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...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few years would have made it ...

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...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very...

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Excerpt: The Trial, or More Links of the Daisy Chain by Charlotte M. Yonge.

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .........................................................

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...LICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ... rest and of ascending glory, that I had been haunted. It was also because Jerusalem stood near to those deep im- ages both in time and in place. The ... ... near to those deep im- ages both in time and in place. The great event of Jerusalem was at hand when Palm Sunday came; and the scene of that Sunday w... ...d when Palm Sunday came; and the scene of that Sunday was near in place to Jerusalem. What then was Jerusa- lem? Did I fancy it to be the omphalos (na... ...uishing all further call for their services; 7. a second Jane; 8. Henry, a posthumous child, who belonged to Brazennose College, Oxford, and died abou... ...—1st, my physics; he denounced me for effeminacy; 2d, he assumed, and even postulated as a datum, which I myself could never have the face to refuse, ... ...le would send “jaw,” I settled that, henceforwards, it must go through the post office. In my former captures, there had been nothing special or worth...

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...Excerpt: My dear Strunz:--I should be ungrateful if I did not set your name at the head of one of the two tales I could never have written but for your patient kindness and care. Accept this as my grateful acknowledgment of the readiness with which you tried--perhaps not very successfully-- to initiate ...

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