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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. WE have been looking at a perfect world. We have seen it to be such as God could call 6 good;' not a cloud in its sky, not a ruffle on its oceanbreadth, not a tinge upon its verdure; not a pang, or sigh, or groan, or tear, all over its bright plains. It is the dwelling of the unfallen, the outer chamber of heaven, the land wherein dwelleth righteousness. We have seen the harmony of creation; all its parts linked together in loving oneness, the animate and inanimate, the intelligent and irrational; no jar, no dissonance in any. Man is the head, the lord, appointed to exercise holy dominion under Jehovah as his Head and Lord. We have seen the beauty of creation, with its flowers and dew, its gems and gold, its sunshine and starlight above; its green stretch of hill, plain, forest, below. We have seen it as a world without a sin, or a shadow, or a,sigh, or a wrinkle; neither decay nor disease have entered it; there are no tossing sickbeds, no heartbreaking deathbeds, no severing bonds, no bitter farewells, no heaving tombs. It is a world altogether good; a world which, angels might visit; over which God might delight, and in which He might dwell with man. We need not say of it, as has been done, 'Fit haunts of gods;' we may at once say, 'Fit dwelling of Jehovah/ A visible dwelling for the invisible God is that which was designed. This has always formed one special part of God's purpose in all its unfoldings. "We have now to learn the story of its change; its change from being the seat of life and righteousness and joy, to becoming the region of death and evil and sorrow; from being the dwelling of God, to becoming the haunt, nay, the regal residence of Satan, and the sphere of peculiar action to his hosts, 'the rulers of the darkness of this wo...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 115101995X
- ISBN 13 9781151019950
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages108
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