A Vindication of the Seventh-Day Sabbath and the Commandments of God: With a Further History of God's Peculiar People from 1847-1848Bates, Joseph
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A Vindication of the Seventh-Day Sabbath and the Commandments of God: With a Further History of God's Peculiar People from 1847-1848
Bates, Joseph
Sabbath; Seventh-Day Adventists -- Doctrinal and controversial works
Yet, a third and solemn message,
Now proclaims a _final doom_;
All who “worship _Beast_ or _Image_;”
Soon shall drink the wrath of God:
Without mixture,
Mercy, _now_ no longer pleads.
Here are they, who now are waiting,
And have patience to endure;
While the DRAGON’S _hosts_ are raging,
_Those_ confide in God secure:
Faith of Jesus;
And COMMANDMENTS, _keep_ them pure.
Hear a voice from heav’n proclaiming,
“Write” the message, “firm decree”:
Bless’d are they, who die in Jesus,
“From _henceforth_” forever be:
The _Spirit_ sanctions,
And the Saints ADORE HIS LAW.
FOOTNOTES
1 Campbell translates this in three, and Matt. xxviii: 63, within
three days.
2 Small sea birds.
3 Allow me, once more, to recommend to your careful, candid and
prayerful attention, the simple, unadorned, scriptural, published
visions of ELLEN G. HARMON, now WHITE. If you do not see the simple
outlines of our history past _and at that time_ in the future,
marking our pathway, then I fear you will not comprehend what I have
written. Reject it not because of her childhood and diseased bodily
infirmities, and lack of worldly knowledge. God’s manner has ever
been to use the weak things of this world to confound the learned
and mighty. I often feel to praise my God for this simple means to
strengthen and encourage the little flock, just at the time that
their teachers and shepherds were deserting them. It looks like
God’s work.
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