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John Gill

Baptism, A Public Ordinance of Divine Worship.

John GillBAPTISM: A PUBLIC ORDINANCE of Divine Worship As the first covenant, or testament, had ordinances of divine service, which are shaken, removed, and abolished; so the New Testament, or gospel dispensation, has ordinances of divine worship, which cannot be shaken, but will remain until the second comi... Read More
John Gill

Of Baptism.

John GillA Body of PRACTICAL Divinity Book 3—Chapter 1 OF BAPTISM As the first covenant, or testament, had ordinances of divine service, which are shaken, removed, and abolished; so the New Testament, or gospel dispensation, has ordinances of divine worship, which cannot be shaken, but will remain until the ... Read More
John Gill

Of the Law Given to Adam, and the Covenant made with Him in the State of Innocence...

John GillA Body of Doctrinal Divinity Book 3—Chapter 7 OF THE LAW GIVEN TO ADAM, AND THE COVENANT MADE WITH HIM IN HIS STATE OF INNOCENCE; IN WHICH HE WAS THE FEDERAL HEAD AND REPRESENTATIVE OF HIS POSTERITY. The manner in which God governs rational creatures is by a law, as the rule of their obedience to hi... Read More
John Gill

The Argument From Apostolic Tradition, In Favor of Infant-Baptism, Considered.

John GillThe ARGUMENT FROM APOSTOLIC TRADITION, In Favor Of Infant Baptism With OTHERS, advanced in a late Pamphlet, called, The Baptism of Infants a reasonable Service, etc. considered; It is with reluctance I enter again into the controversy about baptism; not from any consciousness either of the badness o... Read More
John Gill

The Proof of this Custom only from the Talmuds.

John GillA Body of PRACTICAL Divinity Book 5—Chapter 4 THE PROOF OF THIS CUSTOM ONLY FROM THE TALMUDS AND TALMUDICAL WRITTERS Seeing the rite of receiving proselytes by baptism, or dipping among the Jews, is nowhere mentioned in any writings before the times of John and Christ, nor in any after, nearer than ... Read More
John Gifford Bellett

The Bride of the Lamb

The Lamb's bride is distinctly the heavenly Jerusalem, the heavenly companion of her Lord, quite distinct from Messiah's kingdom. Jerusalem is the earthly counterpart of the Lamb's bride. In our thoughts about these things, I feel that we do not keep the earthly Zion distinctly in her right place. I... Read More
John Nelson Darby

Joshua 1 - 13

John Nelson DarbyJoshua 1. The first thought is to cross the Jordan. Verses 3, 4. The principles come in afterwards, namely, all the extent of the promises of God; but realization by the fact that one takes possession of them. There is a connection between the moral state of man down here, and the glory of man above... Read More
John Nelson Darby

Synopsis of the Books of the Bible - Deuteronomy

John Nelson DarbyWe now come to the Book of Deuteronomy, a book full of interest in its moral warnings as to testimony, but presenting fewer subjects for interpretation and exegesis than those, the summary of which we have hitherto sought to give. This book takes up Israel just on the borders of Canaan, and insists ... Read More
Jonathan Edwards

The Vain Self Flatteries of the Sinner

Jonathan EdwardsPsalm 36:2 For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful. In the foregoing verse, David says, that the transgression of the wicked said within his heart, "that there is no fear of God before his eyes;" that is, when he saw that the wicked went on in sin, in an ... Read More
Joseph Alleine

THE GOSPEL IN A MAP

Joseph AlleineO all you inhabitants of the world dwelling on the earth, come; see and hear; gather yourselves together unto the proclamation of the Great King. Hear, you who are afar off and you who are near! He who has an ear to hear, let him hear. I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, "Prepare the way... Read More

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