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Letter # 10: “the God of all consolations”
My very noble and worthy Lady,
So oft as I call to mind the comforts that I myself, a poor friendless stranger, received from your Ladyship here in a strange part of the country, when my Lord took from me the delight of mine eyes (Ezek. 24.1), as the [...]

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Letter #3
Loving and Dear Sister,
If ever you would pleasure me, entreat the Lord for me, now when I am so comfortless, and so full of heaviness, that I am not able to stand under the burthen any longer. The Almighty hath doubled His stripes upon me, for my wife is so sore tormented night and [...]

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Letter #2
MADAM, – Saluting your Ladyship with grace and mercy from God our Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ.
I was sorry, at my departure, leaving your Ladyship in grief, and would be still grieved at it if I were not assured that ye have one with you in the furnace whose visage is like [...]

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Overview: What hope does a Christian have in death?
My paper seeks to answer this question from two angles: exegesis and covenant theology. First, exegetically, I attempt to build upon the work of Meredith Kline’s two articles on Revelation 20:1-6 (“The First Resurrection” and “The First Resurrection: A Reaffirmation“) by asking a question Kline did not [...]

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I can now speak from personal experience that among the milestones in a young man’s journey on the arduous road from pew to pulpit, his first sermon surely stands out as an oasis in the desert. Finally, it seems, after trekking through hot hours of Hebrew, hermeneutics, homiletics, systematics, biblical studies, and all the rest, [...]

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