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This historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1831. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... before the flood," nay, fro-the day of Adam's unbelief and fall, downward, to the day of the sixth wrath-vial in which we live--and it ever will be so, onward, to the day of casting unbelievers into the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death; according to the Lord's record of his judgments, and man's unbelief, from Gen. vii. 13, 21, 23, nay, from Gen. iii. 5, 6, 17, 19, downward to Rev. xvi. 12--14, and onward to Rev. xxi. 8, xxii. 20. It must be so, as cause and effect--unbelief, and sin arising therefrom, being the procuring cause, wrath and judgment and destruction being the effect provoked, and that in suddenness, exactly proportioned to the unbelief. Nay, it is so written by the Holy Ghost. Open 2 Tim. iii.--" This know also, that in The Last Days," upon the heels of which the day of the Lord will tread very closely, "perilous times shall come, far men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God," ver. 1--4. A dreadful picture of men in The Last Days! Ah! see in the next verse, the finishing stroke of dreadfulness, "having the form of godliness, but denying the power thereof," ver. 5--"blasphemers," "unholy," "false accusers," "despisers of those that are good," "highminded," and yet in the midst of it all, not abandoning religion, not professing to live without God in the world, not openly and recklessly declaring themselves enemies of the truth of Christ, but " having a form of godliness," not barely a form of religion, but of godliness! They profess religion, ...
