...faith, animate our obedience, and conduct UB in the path which martyrs have consecrated, to the blessed assembly and Church of the Firstborn, whose names are written in heaven. N. Comparison, letiveen Bishop PORTEES, and Bishop HORSIEY. (From the Quarterly Review.) AMONO those...

...associates* the inhahitants of the eternal world to which he belongs must be taken into the account : " the general assembly and church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven ; the spirits of just men made perfect ; the hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes...

...he to believers, " to Mount Sion, to the city of the living God, to the " heavenly Jerusalem, to the general assembly and " church of the first-born, whose names are written in " heaven." The city of God then is this one true church; part of the congregation is triumphant; part militant...

...prophets and holy men of former dispensations ; of the noble army of Christian martyrs, and " of the general assembly and Church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven." To render human depravity susceptible of this melioration, and, by bringing mankind back to the service...

...possess the soul, and nothing but gratitude employ the tongue ; where they shall be admitted to an innumerable company of angels, and to the general assembly and church of the first-born ; where they shall see Jesus at the right hand of the Father, and shall sis: down with...

...added, " I shall soon leave all things below, and quit this vale of sin and woe. I am going to join the general assembly and church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven, and you will soon follow me Be faithful, my dearest companion, thou whom God in great mercy gave to me....

...city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, and to the .... Church of the Firstborn, whose names are written in heaven, and to God, the Judge of all, and to VOL. V. — SIXTH SERIES. B the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus...

...curse of the law, presents them to the Father, sanctified by his Spirit, and prepared to join the great assembly and church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven. I shall not interfere with your endeavours to derive improvement from this subject by attempting to...

...one place of worship, viz. heaven, wherein all the members hold communion ; and will at last form one general assembly and church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven. The Independents allege, that the church of Corinth had an entire judicature within itself. For Paul...

...we meet in the name of Jesus as his people, and with a due observance of his institutions, we come to the " innumerable company of angels, and " to the general assembly and church of the first" born,"* the first-born ones (for the expression is plural). We draw nigh, by faith, to the...