The Divine Programme of The World’s History Chapter III. The Abrahamic Programme – Part II.
God’s relationship with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and the result of that relationship.
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The Divine Programme of The World’s History Chapter III. The Abrahamic Programme – Part I.
Abraham believed and obeyed the God who had chosen him to be the channel of the world’s redemption,—and to him was communicated the third section of the Divine programme of the world’s history.
Continue reading →The Divine Programme of The World’s History Chapter II. The Noahic Programme. – Part III.
In all these passages of the Bible, there is implied, if not plainly stated, the existence of a wide-spread Hittite power from the days of Abraham to those of David. Historical critics, however, asserted that there were no traces of any such empire in classic history, and pronounced the Bible notices of it to be unhistoric and unworthy of credence. Remarkable recent discoveries prove the Bible to be right and the critics to be wrong, and establish by a surprising amount of evidence the existence for about a thousand years of a great and mighty Hittite empire, which was able to dispute supremacy in the earth with the most powerful Pharaohs of Egypt for many centuries.
Continue reading →The Divine Programme of The World’s History Chapter II. The Noahic Programme. – Part II.
The tenth chapter of Genesis—the most ancient genealogical table in existence—a wonderful and profoundly interesting document, is our first guide. It is a book in itself, the book of “the generations of the sons of Noah”; and short as it is, it contains more important matter than many a bulky volume.
Continue reading →The Divine Programme of The World’s History Chapter II. The Noahic Programme. – Part I
Moved with fear—the fear born of faith—Noah prepared an ark to the saving of his house, and while doing so acted as “a preacher of righteousness” to the evil generation in whose midst his lot was cast.
Continue reading →The Divine Programme of The World’s History Chapter I. The Adamic Programme. – Part II
Since the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the ultimate triumph of the seed of the woman has, in spite of all appearances to the contrary, been a settled question; and the final issue becomes continually clearer in the light of the actual course of mundane events.
Continue reading →The Divine Programme of The World’s History Chapter I. The Adamic Programme. – Part I
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Continue reading →The Divine Programme of The World’s History By H. Grattan Guinness
It is our earnest desire that the present work may prove helpful to many. When the Rock of history is struck by the Rod of prophecy, there flow forth living waters. Such are ever needed, and refreshing. Evermore shines on the instructed mind the sacred truth—God is in Christ, reconciling the world; and Christ is in history, its Alpha and Omega, its beginning, its centre, and its end.
Continue reading →The Papal System – XLI. Conclusion
The popes have erected a vast temple, in which they have enthroned the Roman Dagon; it has mighty walls, and many worshipers; and TRUTH, like Samson, will hurl that temple from its foundations, and fling its fragments into the abyss.
Continue reading →The Papal System – XL. The Jesuits
Never in the annals of the world has there been a body of men so small and yet so much dreaded. No warriors, no sect, no organized body of similar proportions has been credited with such numerous and, vast undertakings, or greeted with such continued showers of curses and bitter dislikes.
Continue reading →The Papal System – XXXIX. The Four Great Founders of Monkish Institutions
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In the second century some began to accept the doctrine that to give up business, society, and matrimony, and lead a solitary life, in meditation and prayer, was the holiest earthly state.
Continue reading →The Papal System – XXXVIII. The Scriptures
What a strange sight the Church of Christ presents, in banishing the Bible from her schools, colleges, and churches! This is not the Church of Jerome, who spent so much time and toil in perfecting and translating a Bible in the vulgar tongue. Nor of the early fathers, who made translations for every country where the gospel was received. The Church of the Bible-haters, which has burned Bibles and those who translated them, and myriads who read them, had no representatives in Christ’s day, nor for centuries afterward.
Continue reading →The Papal System – XXXVII. The Inquisition
The true motive for the establishment of the inquisition by Ferdinand V. was to carry on a rigorous system of confiscation against the Jews, so that their wealth might be seized for the royal treasury.
Continue reading →The Papal System – XXXVI. Roman Catholics Who Were Worthy Of All Honor
We have known true men among Roman Catholics, and women of honor and kindness, for whom our respect was spontaneous, and our friendship real. We have met them in humble life, and we have seen them elsewhere. And we have often found them good citizens, and kind friends. Our trouble is with their religious system, not with them; and with their leaders, who would use that vast network—the Romish scheme—to destroy the Protestant religion, and the liberties of men.
Continue reading →The Papal System – XXXV. Hymns, And Those Who Composed Them
In the ancient churches psalmody (singing of psalms in worship) was quite as prominent as it is in the worship of Christ now; the praises and gratitude of the devout worshiper reached heaven in holy melodies sung with fervor and rapture.
Continue reading →The Papal System – XXXIV. The Sincerity of Catholic Priests
When a Catholic priest reaches eighty years, his opinions are but the teachings of his mother, and his first spiritual director. He never examined any other creed.
Continue reading →The Papal System – XXXIII. The Mass in Latin
Irenaeus, commenting on the number six hundred and sixty-six says: “As matters are thus, and the number is found in all the genuine and ancient copies, and as they who saw John attest, reason itself shows that the number of the name of the beast is indicated by the Greek letters which it contains;”
Continue reading →The Papal System – XXXII. No Salvation for Protestants
The popes curse every denomination of Protestants, and every individual who declines to obey the bishops of Rome; or who aids non-Catholics in any manner; or who, without papal authority, knowingly reads, or retains a Protestant book, or prints it. The curse and excommunication involve and mean the damnation of the soul in its severest pains.
Continue reading →The Papal System – XXXI. Sins Taken Away By Gifts And Favors
Nothing seems more astonishing than that intelligent men who have any knowledge of the Christian religion should ever imagine that gifts of property or money could blot out guilt, and cancel the record of it from the books of the judgment day. And yet nothing on earth is more certain than that this doctrine for centuries governed the leading men of Catholic Europe.
Continue reading →The Papal System – XXX. The Catholic Church and Public Education
Continued from XXIX. The Family and Public Worship, and the Books of Protestants. In a republic like our own, the education of the people is a great public necessity. Intelligence will not change a heart naturally wicked, but it qualifies … Continue reading →