Eschatology

Blackstone Jesus is Coming

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Jesus is Coming
by William E Blackstone (1878)

This is an excellent book on prophecy (“became the veritable reference source of American dispensationalist thought. Over the next 50 years, Jesus is coming sold multi-millions of copies worldwide and was translated into 48 languages.”-wikipedia). Some of his chapters: Literal interpretation, coming does not mean death, the three appearings, the millennium, post-millennialism, pre-millennial arguments, the Rapture, the Antichrist, the Tribulation, Israel, order of events, etc. Continue reading →

Binet Purgatory Surveyed

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Purgatory Surveyed
or A Particular Account of the happy, and yet thrice unhappy, state of the Souls there.
By Etienne Binet

This Catholic work by the priest Binet, is set up in 6 sections called surveys, where he examines different aspects of purgatory from a Catholic view. (1) the suffering of souls in purgatory. (2) A study of paradise (as part of purgatory). (3) What should be our love towards the souls in purgatory. (4) Our moral obligation to pray them out of purgatory. (5) A defense for prayers for the dead. (6) 12 means to prevent purgatory and shorten our stay there. Continue reading →

Bunyan The Barren Fig Tree

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Bunyan The Barren Fig Tree

The Doom and Downfall of the Fruitless Professor

by John Bunyan

Summary of Bunyan The Barren Fig Tree

This is a single chapter sermon by Bunyan (Anglican). The matter of his sermon is the divine condemn on professors of the faith that have no fruit. He uses Christ’s parable of cursing the fig tree, and concludes that such professors without fruit in their life are under God’s condemnation.



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Manton, T. – 18 Sermons on the Antichrist

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18 Sermons on the Antichrist
by Thomas Manton

Description: (1) Eighteen Sermons on the Second Chapter of the Second Epistle to the Thessalonians, containing The Description, Rise, Growth, and Fall of Antichrist, with Divers Cautions and Arguments to Establish Christians Against the Apostasy of the Church of Rome. (2) A Practical Exposition Upon the Forty-third Chapter of Isaiah. Continue reading →