 | George Bush - Religion - 1845 - 408 pages
...opinion which, however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, has not been found agreeable to experience. It was universally believed,...discourses of Christ himself, were obliged to expect the second and glorious coming of the Son of man in the clouds, before that generation was totally extinguished,... | |
 | Robert Townley - Second Advent - 1845 - 194 pages
...opinion, which, however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, has not been found agreeable to experience. It was universally believed...discourses of Christ himself, were obliged to expect the second and glorious coming of the Son of Man, in the clouds, before that generation was totally extinguished... | |
 | Robert Townley - Second Advent - 1845 - 196 pages
...opinion, which, however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, has not been found agreeable to experience. It was universally believed...discourses of Christ himself, were obliged to expect the second and glorious coming of the Son of Man, in the clouds, before that generation was totally extinguished... | |
 | John Humphrey Noyes - Christianity - 1847 - 518 pages
...recite the passage above quoted. .world and the kingdom ofheaven, were at hand. The near approach oftlns wonderful event had been predicted by the apostles; the tradition of it was preserved by iheir earliest disciples; and those who understood in their literal sense the discourses of Christ... | |
 | Truth-seeker and present age - 1849 - 540 pages
...its usefulness and antiquity, has not bcen fonnd agrceable to expericnce. It was universally belicved that the end of the world and the kingdom of heaven...hand. The near approach of this wonderful event had bcen predicted by the apostles; the tradition of it was preserved by thcir earlicst disciples; and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1850 - 664 pages
...opinion, which, however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, has not been found agreeable to experience. It was universally believed,...disciples, and those who understood in their literal senses the discourse of Christ himself, were obliged to expect the second and glorious coming of the... | |
 | 1851 - 372 pages
...opinion, which, however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, has not been found agreeable to experience. It was universally believed,...discourses of Christ himself, were obliged to expect the second and glorious coming of the son of man in the clouds, before that generation was totally extinguished... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1851 - 656 pages
...usefulness and antiquity, has not been found agreeable to experience. It was universally believedvthat the end of the world, and the kingdom of heaven, were...discourses of Christ himself, were obliged to expect the second and glorious coming of the Son of Man in the clouds, before that generation was totally extinguished,... | |
 | William Henry Ruffner - Apologetics - 1852 - 692 pages
...truth." He specifies these favoring circumstances. One of them he declares to be " the universal belief that the end of the world, and the kingdom of Heaven were at hand" — the hourly " expectation of that moment when the globe itself, and all the various races of mankind, should... | |
 | Origen Bacheler - Bible - 1853 - 390 pages
...deserve respect for its usefulnesa and antiquity, has not been found agreeable to experience. Itwas universally believed that the end of the world and the kingdom of heaven were at hand." furnish no name that carries with it greater weight than that of Thomas Jefferson ; and though you... | |
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In the primitive church the influence of truth was very powerfully strengthened by an opinion which, however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, has not been found agreeable to experience. It was universally believed that the end... 
