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December 27—Morning Devotion
"For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed: but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord, that hath mercy on thee."—Isaiah 54:10 What a rest is here for a poor redeemed sinner to stand firm upon, in time, and to all eternity! Well may lie cry…
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86 Divine
DIVINE Something relating to God. The word is also used figuratively for any thing that is excellent, extraordinary, and that seems to go beyond the power of nature and the capacity of man. It also signifies a minister, or clergyman.
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1 Thessalonians: Chapter 4, Verse 15
“For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, etc.]” The apostle having something new and extraordinary to deliver, concerning the coming of Christ, the first resurrection, or the resurrection of the saints, the change of the living saints, and the rapture both of the raised and living in the clouds to meet Christ in the air,…
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December 26—Morning Devotion
"Jesus Christ of the seed of David."—2 Timothy 2:8 Sweet thought! Jesus will have regard to both sexes in his incarnation. He will be of the seed of the woman. He will be also truly and properly man. As both the man and woman had sinned, so redemption shall be for both. But in the holy nature, in which as…
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85 Theology
THEOLOGY Signifies that science which treats of the being and attributes of God, his relations to us, the dispensations of his providence, his will with respect to our actions, and his purposes with respect to our end. The word was first used to denote the systems, or rather the heterogeneous fables, of those poets and philosophers who wrote of the…
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1 Thessalonians: Chapter 4, Verse 14
“For if we believe that Jesus died, and rose again, etc.]” As every Christian does, for both the death and resurrection of Christ are fundamental articles of faith; nothing is more certain or more comfortable, and more firmly to be believed, than that Christ died for the sins of his people, and rose again for their justification; on these depend…
