Elpis Israel

by John Thomas (Christadelphian)

Publisher:

The Christadelphian

, 1990

Contents

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“But the ‘pure and undefiled religion’ of God has no present temporalities or worldly interests. It has no ‘lands, tenements, and hereditaments’; nor ‘states’, colleges, or ‘sacred edifices’. It is like the Son of God in the days of his flesh; homeless, houseless, and poverty-stricken among the sons of men. It has great riches, and good things in store for the poor in this world who are rich in faith;^b it promises them the possession of the world^c with all the honour, and glory, and riches of it, with endless life for the enjoyment of them; but it requires faith in God with filial obedience to His law, in a time of tribulation,^d as the condition of the inheritance.” (Page 146)

“The Lord Christ and king David are associated in several prophecies, because the everlasting covenant of promise made with the latter declares its mercies to them both, at one and the same time. David is to witness the fulfilment of its promises; for the record is, ‘Thy house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever’.” (Page 304)

“‘Upon what principle, or principles, did the God of heaven propose to carry out His purposes in relation to the developing of rulers for the kingdom and empire of nations; and for the peopling of the globe under its eternal and incorruptible constitution?’” (Page 176)

“The thinking of the flesh could never have discovered it; for the obtaining of immortality involved the belief and practice of things which it was utterly impossible for the heart of man to conceive.” (Page 147)

“‘first pure, and then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy’” (Page 2)

Product Details

• Title: Elpis Israel
• Author: John Thomas (Christadelphian)
• Edition: electronic ed.
• Publisher: The Christadelphian
• Print Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Bible › History--Theology--Studies
• Resource ID: LLS:58.40.3
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2021-04-26T17:38:12Z

About John Thomas (Christadelphian)

Dr. John Thomas (April 12, 1805 – March 5, 1871) was the founder of the Christadelphian movement, a Restorationist religion with doctrines similar in part to some 16th century Antitrinitarian Rationalist Socinians and the 16th century Swiss-German pacifist Anabaptists.