 | Samuel Stennett - 1824 - 520 էջ
...compared to the mountains of Sion, to churches established in this and that place, yea I will add to the general assembly and church of the first-born whose names are written in heaven. God commands the blessing upon such families, even life for evermore. And to them our salutations should... | |
 | 918 էջ
...saints made perfect, have among them many who justify the charitable hope that they belong to the " general assembly and church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven." The following observations of Mr. Beale, on the character and labours of a long-tried agent of the... | |
 | Oliver Reywood - 1826 - 596 էջ
...souls are joined already to the celestial inhabitants, "to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven; to God the judge of all." Such honour have all his saints, above kings and princes on earth ; though... | |
 | 1826 - 416 էջ
...Lamb;" then farewell church militant and false brethren, and welcome church triumphant, even " the general assembly and church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven;" then farewell all those exceeding great and precious promises, which are now as sweet cordials to Zion's... | |
 | Charles Wolfe, John Abraham Russell - 1827 - 500 էջ
...us, that " we are come to the heavenly " Jerusalem, — to an innumerable company of " angels, to the general assembly and church " of the first-born whose names are written in " heaven, and to the spirits of just men made " perfect." This is the Christian's hope — that he shall be like the... | |
 | John Mitchel (Presbyterian minister.) - 1828 - 282 էջ
...God, through a crucified Saviour, shall be added "to the general 260 THE MOTIVES, MEANS, AND END, &c. assembly and church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven ; — to the spirits of just men made perfect; — to an innumerable company of angels ; — to Jesus... | |
 | Joseph Ives Foot - 1829 - 66 էջ
...and may the Lord add to the numbers and graces of his church, and finally bring us all to join the general Assembly, and Church of the First-born, whose names are written in heaven. Amen. Reverend Thomas Cheney was graduated at Harvard College, 1711. He is described as an acceptable... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 396 էջ
...all be fully gathered together, they will in fact be one glorious assembly. We find it called ' the general assembly and church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven.' The Independent can find no other description of a church in the New Testament; not a trace of a diocese... | |
 | William Orme - 1830 - 538 էջ
...heaven, whom he knew and loved, did much sweeten and familiarise heaven to him. The description of it, in Heb. xii. 22, was most comfortable to him; ' that...and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better things than the blood of Abel.' That scripture, he said, deserved a thousand thousand thoughts. Oh... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 942 էջ
...heaven, whom he knew and loved, did much sweeten and familiarise heaven to him. The description of it, in Heb. xii. 22, was most comfortable to him ; ' that...and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better things than the blood of Abel.' That scripture, he said, deserved a thousand thousand thoughts. Oh... | |
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... the general assembly and church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven ; and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect... 
