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ZION’S LANDMARKS.
God, which is in Christ Jesus, our
Lord. Romans, the 8th chapter,
.‘^8th and 39th verses. Notwithstand
ing all the direful things which our
cjes may see and our hearts mourn
over, the Lord of life and glory will be
sure to watch over, take care of, and
like this ? Under the sweet influence
of the effects of Love divine We do
not mind to spend a little of our time
in the defence of our Lord and Mas
ter’s cause, and also support and
maintain his Gospel, and also, con
tend earnestly for the faith once de
conduct us safe home to the Celestial livered to the saints, while this world
City above. Not one will bo left be-j with all its appendages at the same
bind that the Father gave to bis Son, ! time will appear trifling and worth-
for the Gospel and every precept of the I less to us. Such a state of felicity
jlible, and every part of the Covenant: is Heaven begun below; this we may
of Grace, and the designs, purposes
and counsels of Heaven, with all the
divine perfections of God immutably
stand, and thcv ever did and ever
will stand responsible for the safe
arrival of all his dear children to the
Celestial City above. In this let us
rejoice and be exceedingly glad; yea,
let all who in heart and soul love
our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ,
icjoice in this same glonous doctnne,
for saith lie, “lhave loved thee with
an everlasting love, therefore with
lovincr kindness have I drown thee.
view as living at the gate of Heaven,
while here in this world of sin and
misery. Yes, seeing that tne Lord
has done all things well for us, and
of his own Lee grace and purpose,
has made us accepted in the beloved,
and made known unto us the riches
of his grace, and made us heirs and
joint heirs with Jesus Christ; for
whom he did foreknow, he also did
predestinate to be conformed to the
image of his Son that he might be
the first born among many brethren.
gether unto-Him, not to be soon
shaken nor moved, or troubled,
neither by spirit nor by word,
nor by letter as from us^ as that
the day of Chiist is at hand.
This is as if he had said to them
[f any spirit declare unto yon
that the second cominG!’ of onr
Loi'd is at hand, or that it will
Paul says “ as from us.” Paul
evidently accuses and convets
them of forgery against the Holy
Ghost, and also against, the mora
character of the apostles. I'his,
we conclnde, is tlm sin of blas
phemy against the Holy Ghost,
“And for tijis cause God shall
send them strong delusion, that
be at such a time, or if you get | they should believe a lie ” In the
a vc]-l)al word, or if you receive, 3d verse Paul waims tlie chni'cLi
a letter from21sas from us ; against those deceive]'.-', saying,
signifies that if yon hear by word “Let iio man deceive you by aiiv
I Moreover, whom lie did predestinate,
liow grciit and inconceivably rich is ! them he also called, and whom be
the effects of divine love; it is the; called he also justified, whom he
foundation of all the happiness which ‘justified, them he also glorified. Ro-
the saints enjoy, either in this world, i mans, the 8th chapter, 29th and 30th
or in that w hich is to come. Y es, | versos. Since there is no one that
every divine truth is connected with ' can lay anything to the charge of
of some one that the apos
tles, say that the second coming
of our Lord is at hand, or if yon
should receive a b.-ttei’ pui'poi't-
ing to be writteii ov ns, and tlse
writer claiming lo be an ajios-
tie, even if !:,■ sliould forge the
name of Pan! or any of the apos
tles to sncli lettei', so as to make
it a])pear that it was ns that sent
eternal God has done for us, or pro
mised to do, and all that he ever re-
\ ealcd of himself in his sacred word
or elsewhere to his chosen and afflic
ted ones, is but rnaniLsting a dispJay
of his unchangeable and unalienable
love to his chosen inhabitants of ZiOn.
^God’s-ftlect^ “let us lay .as4de» overy-.
weight and the sin that doth so easi-
means : fur that (hnj shall not
coine^^ except thei'e come a hilling
awa_y first, and that in;in of sin
be revealed, the son of perdition.”
This man of sin s])oke,n of by
Paul has been revealed from
Paul’s day until nowg and that
revelation is raanife.-t bv ahdiim'-
away or a dejiarture from the
true gospel of Clirist to the in-
it. Ilencehe saysventions of men and devil,-,.
The iloly Ghost had informed i This man of sin was revealed in
Paul that there were false spirits i Andrew Fuller, in 1 792, bv fall-
gone out into the world, and that; ing away from the love of tlio
tnith [professedly'] and clioosing
such spirits had crept into th
ffeh
under a garb of reli-lfor his tl
, ,V
gie (i|* excitement th
ly beset us, looking to
Jesus, the
author and finisher of our faith.”'—
Praying God to give us light and un
derstanding, that we may do our du
ty to our God ami fellow man; that
we may be found at our post carnest-
i.ffar brethren, as God is eternal and | ly contending for the faith once de-
iiicoraprchensiblo, just so is his love; | livered to the saints. Amen,
w hen we were fast sinking down v
of a highly i
God, I
immortal!"
under the displeasure
provoked and sin
through the channel
avenging
O
of
jiovo, Christ was revealed tons as
our suretyship, and one altogether
lovely, and as the Chief among ten |
Wilson, N. C., September 1.
ELDER L. I. BODENIIAMER,
thousand. When wm can, by faith,
3UDIXOK.
;ct sight
of our Lord and Master if;
Brother Bodenhamer:—Please "ive us vour
'vVe
only get one crumb of Heavenly | views upon the 2d chapter lltl) and 12lh
manna, it will be sure
to raise our ^
;;flections to Cod, and captivate our;
souls, and wc view' Jesus as our bus- j
1-and, brother and friend. Such be-i
ing the case, it will be sure to spread
verses of I he second epistle of Paul to the
Tlicssalonians. 1). L. HITCHCOCK.
amkthat they'were grace- deplorabTe conditiorj ofheatheils.
lej?.=) professors, whose object was: andforatfci'iliufingtheii'salvatioiA
filtliy lucre and power, and not To money and not to Clirist,
the good of Zion and the glory | This man of sin is revealed 1j\’
of God. The apostle also knew modern Fullei’ites or missit»nti-
that such were well calculated, ries, in their falling atvay froiii
and elemented to trouble and; apostolic ordei’ and faith, and
shrke the minds of the saints by j specially in tlieir falling awa\'
the liitroduction of their malig-1 from the true Bible and the love
nant heresies into the church. | of the truth in the and in
The object of such heresies is to | the willful pervei'.sion of Divine
excite the animal passions, de-1 Truth, and for joining affinit\'
throne reason, and eclipse ssii\\ \h(iAniericanUnion JhiJAe
brightness of the glorious gospel
of the blessed God. Hence the
first workings of those false spir
its ill the church was to get up
Society'’^ irx that atrocious anil
heaven-daring sin in attempting
to slay the two witnesses of God,
by denouncing the Scriptni'es, as
an excitement so as toshake the | testifying to thirty thousand er-
miiids or faith of the church and ' rors or lies, find for assisting and
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a withering inllucncc on all the poor,
IVothy I'eligiou of this present day in
AN
Inch we live; while it sweetl
y
draws our affections to Him onAvhom
the hope of our salvation is built.—-
Riossed, indeed, is the eflccts of love
EDITORIAL VIEWS UPON THE
ABOVE VERSES.
Eleventh verse—“ And for
this cause God shall send them
strong delusion, that they should
believe a lie.” The apostle in
this chajiter is writing prophet-
turn them from the belief of the
abating the mother of harlots
truth of God to believe a lie. in tlie blackest of all crimes, to
To get up this excitement they i wit, the jiroduction of the lateso-
necessarily had to resort to a lie I called ‘‘ Revision and Trausla-
as all their kindred spirits do mi- tioii of the New Testament,”
ically to the brethren, and in this
.livlue, Klicd abroad in tb7iioaTof| encourages tliem by
the power of coming of our Jxird Jesus
Christ, and by their gathering to-
his dear children by
the Holy Ghost. Was
power
ever love
til now. Hence they chose for
their theme the immediate com
ing or day of Christ, and to give
character and imjiortance to their
heresy they introduced it in the
name of the apostles. Hence
wherein is tlie greatest display
of human ignorance, illiteracy,
stupidity and divine contempt;
yea Paul saith in the 4th verse,
“ Who oppo.seth and exalteth
himself above all that is called
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