Elpis Israel by John Thomas

Part First

THE RUDIMENTS OF THE WORLD

Chapter 5.

Immortality in the present state a positive evil — Immortality in misery unscriptural — The professing world religious from fear — The world's religions useful as a system of Ecclesiastical Police — The Religion of Christ destitute of all worldly goods till his return, when it will possess all things — The doctrine of immortality a divine revelation — The Heathens baffled in their endeavours to discover it — The Mosaic Cherubim God's throne in Israel — The Cherubim of Ezekiel and John — The Cherubic Veil — The Faces of the Lord — The Flaming Sword — Illustrated by Ezekiel's description of the glory of the God of Israel — The brightness of the Spiritual Body — The Way of the Tree of Life — The etymology of the word RELIGION — False religion based upon the idea of appeasing the wrath of God — God already reconciled to the world — The "Word of Reconciliation" committed to the apostles in the beginning — The apostles the only ambassadors of Christ — "The word" preached by the apostles entrusted to the disciples of Christ — "Clergy" and "Laity" distinctions of the apostasy — Religion defined — Its grand desideratum — No true religion without belief of the Truth — The word "faith" scripturally defined — How faith comes — The "religious world" infidel of "the faith" — "Love" scripturally defined by "obedience" — The religious world destitute of the Spirit of God — Religion contemporary only with sin — Summary of principles

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