"Mormon" Doctrine Plain and Simple; Or, Leaves from the Tree of Life — John Shaqi
"Mormon" Doctrine Plain and Simple; Or, Leaves from the Tree of LifePenrose, Charles W. (Charles William)
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"Mormon" Doctrine Plain and Simple; Or, Leaves from the Tree of Life
Penrose, Charles W. (Charles William)
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Doctrines; Latter Day Saint churches -- Doctrines
The Church of Christ--Its Unity--Christ's Church under His Personal
Supervision--Rules of Admission--No Others Available--Apostleship
the Chief Authority--Other Authorities and Ministers--Necessity of
These--The Church Progressive--It Casts Off Evil-Doers--Brotherhood of
its Members--Mission of the Church.
SIXTH LEAF.
Apostasy from the Primitive Church--When it Commenced--The Apostles
Predicted it--The Apostasy Universal--The Woman Clothed With the
Sun, and the Scarlet-Clothed Harlot-What they Represent--The
Reformation--Spread of Truth but Lack of Authority--Multiplication of
Sects--No Voice from Heaven.
SEVENTH LEAF.
Restoration of the Gospel--Ministration of an Angel--Divine Knowledge
and Divine Authority--Keys of Former Dispensations Revealed--Rebuilding
of the Church of Christ--The Signs Following--Coming of
Elijah--Dispensation of the Fullness of Times--Triumph of the Truth.
EIGHTH LEAF.
Apparent Doom of the Majority of Mankind--No Salvation but by Jesus
Christ--Is the State of Man Fixed at Death?--The Common Belief
Incorrect--Preaching to the Dead--The Spirit Without the Body
Sentient--Nature of Paradise--All People to Hear the Gospel Either in
this Life or the Next.
NINTH LEAF.
Decrees of God Fixed in the Spiritual as in the Natural
Universe--Ordinances Essential--The Living may be Baptized for the
Dead--The Principle of Proxy--The Place for the Administration of
Vicarious Ordinances--Revelation of Elijah, the Prophet--Connection
With the Spirit World--True Order of Communication--Blessed Results of
Work Done for the Dead.
TENTH LEAF.
Universality of Death--Results of the Transgression
of Law--Dissolution of the Body not the End of Existence--What
is Resurrection?--The Spiritual Body of Jesus--All to be
Raised from the Dead--The Order of the Resurrection--Necessity
of an Immortal Body--Ignorance of the Laws of Nature--Matter
Indestructible--Possibilities of Creative Energy--Life and Immortality
Brought to Light.
ELEVENTH LEAF.
Man or Woman Alone Imperfect--Marriage Ordained
of God--Sanctity of Proper Sexual Relations--Matrimony a Part of
Religion--The First Pair Immortal--Marriage for Eternity--Keys of
Celestial Marriage--Condition of Those who Marry Only for Time--Man the
Head of the Woman--Plurality of Wives--Continuation of the Righteous
Forever--Eternal Family Organizations--Everlasting Increase and
Dominion.
TWELFTH LEAF.
Christ's Work Continued After His Death--The Perfect Science of
Human Redemption--What was Lost in the Fall--What is to be Regained
in the Restoration--Justice Tempered with Mercy--Loss Sustained
by the Disobedient--Doom of the Sons of Perdition--The Celestial,
Terrestrial and Telestial Glories--Redemption and Glorification
of the Earth--Salvation of the Whole Race--The Finished Work of
Christ--Universal Dominion of the Father.
"THE LATTER-DAY KINGDOM," a Poem.
APPENDIX.
Scriptural References to all the subjects treated upon in the
body of the work.
"MORMON" DOCTRINE,
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