Sketches of the Christian life and public labors of William Miller : $b Gathered from his memoir by the late Sylvester Bliss, and from other sources
John Stuart Mill · en
“‘7. That the promise, that Abraham should be the heir of the
world, was not to him, or to his seed, through the law, but
through the righteousness of faith.[63] That they are not all
Israel which are of Israel.[64] That there is no difference,
under the gospel dispensation, between Jew and Gentile.[65]
That the middle wall of partition that was between them is
broken down, no more to be rebuilt.[66] That God will render
to every man according to his deeds.[67] That if we are
Christ’s, then are we Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to
the promise.[68] And that the only restoration of Israel, yet
future, is the restoration of the saints to the earth, created
anew, when God shall open the graves of those descendants of
Abraham who died in faith, without receiving the promise, with
the believing Gentiles who have been grafted in with them into
the same olive tree; and shall cause them to come up out of
their graves, and bring them, with the living, who are changed,
into the land of Israel.[69]
“‘8. That there is no promise of this world’s conversion.[70]
That the horn of papacy will war with the saints, and prevail
against them, until the Ancient of Days shall come, and
judgment be given to the saints of the Most High, and the
time come that the saints possess the kingdom.[71] That the
children of the kingdom, and the children of the wicked one,
will continue together until the end of the world, when all
things that offend shall be gathered out of the kingdom, and
the righteous shall shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of
their Father.[72] That the man of sin will only be destroyed
by the brightness of Christ’s coming.[73] And that the nations
of those which are saved and redeemed to God by the blood of
Christ, out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and
nation, will be made kings and priests unto God, to reign
forever on the earth.[74]
“‘9. That it is the duty of the ministers of the word to
continue in the work of preaching the gospel to every creature,
even unto the end,[75] calling upon them to repent, in view of
the fact that the kingdom of Heaven is at hand;[76] that their
sins may be blotted out when the times of refreshing shall come
from the presence of the Lord.[77]