 | Edward Irving - 1831 - 470 pages
...origin to the language used in the Hebrews, to denote the complete number of the elect (xii. 23), " The general assembly and church of the firstborn whose names are written in heaven;" and this last expression coincides with that word in the Revelation, " written in the Lamb's book of life.''... | |
 | William Latta McCalla - 1831 - 410 pages
...will build my church." " By the " church is meant," says Gill, on this text, "the elect of " God, the general assembly and church of the First-born, " whose names are written in heaven." When the Psalmist says, " The Lord shall build up Zion,"(r) it does not throw Dr. Gill into a rhapsody... | |
 | John Gregory Pike - 1831 - 396 pages
...of hell, but now of heaven. Once a fit companion for devils and the damned, now you have come to the general assembly and church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven. Once all was dark and gloomy round you and before you, (O M»tt. K. 32. Matt. xxv. 34. (O Rev. vii.... | |
 | John Henry Hobart, William Berrian - 1862 - 540 pages
...all ; and unto Jesus, the Mediator of the new covenant; and to the spirits of the jnst made perfect; and to the general assembly and church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven." It is in virtue, then, of our union with our divine Head and Saviour by the participation of the ordinances... | |
 | John Henry Hobart, William Berrian - 1832 - 534 pages
...all ; and unto Jesus, the Mediator of the new covenant ; and to the spirits of the just made perfect; and to the general assembly and church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven." It is in virtue, then, of our union with our divine Head and Saviour by the participation of the ordinances... | |
 | Alexander Copland - 1832 - 586 pages
...and the first-fruits of the Christian scheme in paradise, or, as they are called in Scripture, " the general assembly and church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven," and " the spirits of just men made perfect ;"t these, in some way unknown to us, may enjoy the more visible... | |
 | Society of Friends - 1832 - 164 pages
...and living vine; and finally will meet with the church triumphant of his saints and angels, in the general assembly and church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven. My heart is comforted in believing, that the love and mercy of God in Christ Jesus our Lord, extends... | |
 | William Jay - 1832 - 704 pages
...Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, with prophets and apostles, with the noble army of martyrs ; with the general assembly and church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven. Is it enjoyment 1 A man at a feast discharges himself from anxieties, and gives up himself to pleasure... | |
 | 1833 - 652 pages
...them to Mount Zion, and to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven, and to God the judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the mediator of, the new covenant,... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1833 - 388 pages
...which the children of men are learning the anthems of the blessed above, and becoming meet to join the general assembly and church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven. Our design will not be completed, until " One song employs all nations, and all cry Worthy the Lamb,... | |
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The description of heaven in Heb. xii. 22, was most comfortable to him ; that he was going to the " innumerable company of angels, and to the general assembly and Church of the first-born, whose names are written in heaven... 
