The Opening Heavens: or a Connected View of the Testimony of the Prophets and Apostles, Concerning the Opening Heavens, Compared With Astronomical Observations, and of the Present and Future Location of the New Jerusalem, the Paradise of GodBates, Joseph
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The Opening Heavens: or a Connected View of the Testimony of the Prophets and Apostles, Concerning the Opening Heavens, Compared With Astronomical Observations, and of the Present and Future Location of the New Jerusalem, the Paradise of God
Bates, Joseph
Bible -- Prophecies; Paradise; Second Advent
distinctly understood, that I do not mean anything invidious. I am only
stating the truth in behalf of "God's word;" for I believe that all the
nominal churches in this place, (and they all profess to be right) are
holding the same or similar unscriptural errors that has led the world
around them astray, not because they are more ignorant than in other
places, for I believe for general intelligence they will compare with
any place of its numbers on the habitable globe. The ministers too, with
one exception, I believe, are all college bred. And this creed, be it
remembered, is the most modern and modest of any in the place, for I
believe it is the fashion now when the church is remoddled to remoddle
the creed also, no matter how _orthodox_ it was before, there are
various ways to understand the scriptures, but when once the creed is
published, all the members, old and young, must assent to the truth of
it as their standard, until some one, more skilled in this business,
proposes an alteration. What a burlesque on the never changing truth of
the great eternal! Why follow in the footsteps of Popery to trammel the
mind? Why not as well require a rule to get money? Then if _we_ are
destitute of the true light from the word of God in this enlightened
place, where in the name of the Lord, in any other village or city, can
it be found? God has said that "light is sown for the righteous," and
"unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness." Psalms. But I
must pass on--I have dwelt much longer on this lamentable picture than I
intended, and yet I have hardly begun.
I wish here to ask a few questions on one of the greatest errors that
the world ever embraced, first established by Pope Gregory, A. D. 603. I
mean the changing of God's seventh day, Sabbath, (for it is sheer
sophistry to call it the Jews Sabbath, as Jesus our divine Lord says "it
was made for man,") to the first day of the week.
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