Tests of divine inspiration; or, The rudimental principals by which true and false revelation, in all eras of the world, can be erringly discriminated - Softcover
Synopsis
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. 1853 Excerpt: ...that may arise, according to his best light, in view of the evidence herein laid before him. It is quite certain, that the general plan and order of procedure in the Divine economy, in relation to the redemption of the human race, have frequently been pointed out by four figurative representations. And the "four spirit" of the heavens, spoken of by Zachaiiah, (vi. 5,) undoubtedly refer to the light and life of prophetic revelation emanating from Four Dispensations; for, although the Fourth had not yet come, yet its order, power, and spirit, was the theme of all the prophets, as being the ultimate and finishing work of God with the human family. The Prophet Ezekiel saw, in vision, these Four Eras, by the four successive risings and admeasurements of " the holy waters which issued out from under the threshold of the sanctuary,"--temple, or Church of the Era. In the first of these admeasurements the waters came up only to a man's ankles; in the second, to his knees; in the third, they took in the man to his loins; but, in the fourth and last, they became an impassable river, which carried whoever entered into them clear above the earth. This shows the progressive increase of the Sowings of the waters of life in each succeeding Dispensation, which concentrated and were completely developed in the fourth and last; in which, every thing that had life was healed, whithersoever the waters of that impassable river came; betokening that every intellectual and intelligent being, that received the life-power of the Church of the fourth Era, would be made alive in the true order of God. For "these waters go" (from the Church) "down into the desert;" that is, the spiritually-barren or desert-like state of the Churches; "and th...
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