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17 Eternity
ETERNITY With respect to God, is a duration without beginning or end. As it is the attribute of human nature, it is a duration that has a beginning, but will never have an end. "It is a duration," says a lively writer, "that excludes all number and computation: days, and months, and years, yea, and ages, are lost in it,…
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Tom Nettles Versus George Ella On Fuller
Having been of quite another opinion than The Founders Journal so often about what I believe and disbelieve and having met their ill-founded and quite misleading arguments to a large extent in various articles and books, I was surprised to read an online article today (20.10. 2014) by Tom Nettles, originally published in Issue 53 of the Founders Journal for…
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October 19—Morning Devotion
"There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old, but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed. "—Isaiah 65:20 My soul, contemplate this morning the auspicious and blessed effects brought into the circumstances of mankind by the…
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16 Eternity Of God
ETERNITY OF GOD Is the perpetual continuance of his being, without beginning, end, or succession. that he is without beginning, says Dr. Gill, may be proved from, 1. His necessary self-existence, Exod. 3:14.--2. From his attributes, several of which are said to be eternal, Rom. 1:20. Acts 15:18. Ps. 103:17. Jer. 31:3.—3. From his purposes, which are also said to…
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The “Old School Baptists” In America
Gospel Standard Magazine No. 102 — June, 1844 — Vol. 10, Pages 161-165 [The letters below were written to our departed friend W. Gadsby, and would have appeared earlier but from the pressure of other matter. Mr. Booth's letter will, we think, be found to contain an interesting account of our American brethren. We do not mean to say that…
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October 18—Morning Devotion
"And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant."—Exodus 2:24 This is a precious scripture. My soul, put a note upon it. No sigh, no groan, no tear of God's people can pass unobserved. He putteth the tears of his people in his bottle. Surely then he can never overlook what gives vent to those tears, the sorrows of…
