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...ND MAJESTY BY JUAN JOSAFAT BEN-EZRA, A CONVERTED JEW TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH, WITH A PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE, BY THE REV. EDWARD IRVING... ...ON MDCCCXXVII THIS EDITION PUBLISHED BY J G TILLIN ENGLAND © MM THE COMING OF MESSIAH IN GLORY AND MAJESTY. PART II. (CONTINUE... ...NG OF MESSIAH IN GLORY AND MAJESTY. PART II. (CONTINUED) PHENOMENON VI. THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. THE two capital points which we now proceed ... ...ire to discover and reveal to you that secret, that “ye be not wise in your own conceit;” that you may moderate your too great confidence, which mig... ... that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fu... ... that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fu... ...t of your crimes, and the righteous indignation of your God! Oh system, not less fatal and prejudicial to you than that which your own doctors imprud... ...lem? Who is ignorant that, though the time of this prince was terrible and most fatal to Tyre, it was not so to her ships? For as the ships of Tyre d...

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...ALL that I have to say to thee, my venerable friend Christophilus, reduces itself to the serious and formal examination of one single point; which, in the present constitution or system of the church and the world, appears to me of the highest importance; viz. Whether the ideas which we entertain concerning t...

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