The Balm of Gilead, for Healing a Diseased Land; With the Glory of the Ministration of the Spirit and a Scripture Prophecy of the Increase of Christ's Kingdom, and the Destruction of Antichrist (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1792 Excerpt: ...foture events fo the godly themselves may be sadly shaken, . and tempted to despair of Christ's coming, . when. when he so long paffcth their reckoning. Therefore said he, When the Son of man cometh, -shall he find saith on the tarth?" But glory to his name, " He is faithsul and true, ."and will come at the appointed time, and the unbelief of man shall not make the promise of God of none effect. idly, There shall be great-troubles in the world, and very great sear and distress in the church, .before help arise to her, Dan. xii. u Daniel is certified that when Christ is to stand up for the church, " there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was, since there was a nation, even to that fame time, and at that time thy people shall be delivered." So in Mat.. xxiv. and Lukexxi. Christ saith, that before his coming, there shall be strange signs in the heavens, and in the erth, earthquakes, wars, and rumours of wars, -the rushing of nations one against another, and such universal distress, that mtns hearts will be sailing them for sear; and even then shall deliverance be at hand.-$dly, -Christ will appear when his church's enemies are most confident and secure, and particularly when the Romish harlot is lifted up with pride by her success in this or that kingdom, and begins to say, "1 sit as a queen, and shall see no sorrow. But then it is that her plagues shall come as in one day," Rev. xvii. 7, 8. How confident was that cruel persecutor Dioclesian, os his success against the church, when he erected pillars with that inscription, Deleta Superstitione Christiana f Then he thought he had got Christianity extirpated, and the church ruined; when behold her glorious deliverance under Constantine the Great was just at hand. Or THE INCRE...