 | John Mitchel (Presbyterian minister.) - 1828 - 282 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 396 pages
...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... | |
 | Joseph Ives Foot - Brookfield (Mass. : Town) - 1829 - 66 pages
...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... | |
 | Plumpton Wilson - 1830 - 270 pages
...where he thought that the spirits of the just are made perfect, because he had not read aright of that general assembly and church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven —that assembly where with the innumerable company of angels are also the once mortal spirits of the... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 616 pages
..."we are come unto Mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, and to the general assembly, and church of the first-born, which are written in heaven ?" (that is, to those which as the first-born, are most... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Theology - 1830 - 630 pages
..."we are come unto Mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, and to the general assembly, and church of the first-born, which are written in heaven ?" (that is, to those which as the first-born, are most... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Christian life - 1831 - 638 pages
...familiarize heaven to him. The description of heaven, in Heb. xii. 22, was most comfortable to him ; "that he was going to the innumerable company of angels,...first-born, whose names are written in heaven ; and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the Mediator of the new... | |
 | George Fox - Society of Friends - 1831 - 466 pages
...children of the light, that walk in the light, come to heavenly Jerusalem, to the city of the living God, to the innumerable company of angels, and to the general assembly and church of the first-born, that are written in heaven, and can sing Hallelujah. GF ' Gooses, the 2d of the 7th... | |
 | Edward Irving - Bible - 1831 - 470 pages
...origin to the language used in the Hebrews, to denote the complete number of the elect (xii. 23), " The general assembly and church of the firstborn whose names are written in heaven;" and this last expression coincides with that word in the Revelation, " written in the Lamb's book of life.''... | |
 | William Latta McCalla - Baptism - 1831 - 410 pages
...will build my church." " By the " church is meant," says Gill, on this text, "the elect of " God, the general assembly and church of the First-born, " whose names are written in heaven." When the Psalmist says, " The Lord shall build up Zion,"(r) it does not throw Dr. Gill into a rhapsody... | |
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