The Everlasting Man

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What, if anything, is it that makes the human uniquely human? This, in part, is the question that G.K. Chesterton starts with in this classic exploration of human history. Responding to the evolutionary materialism of his contemporary (and antagonist) H.G. Wells, Chesterton in this work affirms human uniqueness and the unique message of the Christian faith. Writing in a time when social Darwinism was rampant, Chesterton instead argued that the idea that society has been steadily progressing from a state of primitivism and barbarity towards civilization is simply and flatly inaccurate. "Barbarism and civilization were not successive stages in the progress of the world," he affirms, with arguments drawn from the histories of both Egypt and Babylon.

As always with Chesterton, there is in this analysis something (as he said of Blake) "very plain and emphatic." He sees in Christianity a rare blending of philosophy and mythology, or reason and story, which satisfies both the mind and the heart. On both levels it rings true. As he puts it, "in answer to the historical query of why it was accepted, and is accepted, I answer for millions of others in my reply; because it fits the lock; because it is like life." Here, as so often in Chesterton, we sense a lived, awakened faith. All that he writes derives from a keen intellect guided by the heart's own knowledge. --Doug Thorpe

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"I read Chesterton's Everlasting Man and for the first time saw the whole Christian outline of history set out in a form that seemed to me to make sense..." -C.S. Lewis in Surprised by Joy "G. K. Chesterton routinely ignites more ideas per page than any Christian author of the twentieth century, with the possible exception of C. S. Lewis. Chesterton sometimes overstates, often maddens, and invariably provokes a new and better way of seeing things." - John G. Stackhouse, Jr. G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was an English journalist and author, perhaps best known today for his Father Brown mystery novels and his sense of humour, which has helped make him one of the most quoted twentieth-century writers.

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Men are moved in these things by something far higher and holier than policy; by hatred. When men hung on in the darkest days of the Great War, suffering either in their bodies or in their souls for those they loved, they were long past caring about details of diplomatic objects as motives for their refusal to surrender. Of myself and those I knew best I can answer for the vision that made surrender impossible. It was the vision of the German Emperor's face as he rode into Paris.

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Classical Book for Sane People.......2007-09-04

The book has become classical because, unlike other weighty apologetical books, it appeals to common sense reasoning. As he always does in his other books, Chesterton again shows in this book that truth, and the way we're supposed to obtain that truth, is actually not far away from how common people think in their daily life about day-to-day matters. And a thought or argument--deep as it is--that returns to daily experience will tend to endure and last longer. Over speculative arguments will indeed make a boisterous noise, but it will soon be forgotten.

G.K.'s arguments look simple, and yet they appeal to sane mind. Why is it better off to believe in creation? G.K. would say: "isn't it easier to say that the world was created?" Why G.K. doesn't believe in evolution? Because human laughs. Why G.K. thinks that the story of Jesus in the Bible is true? Because no other groups of religion other than Christianity believes it is true. . . . To mention only few examples from the book.

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Different view on Christianity.......2007-09-04

This book is sometimes confusing, but digs deep into the soul and the heart of man. It was a key book for me in finding my faith.

The power of critical thinking and challenge to the agnostic.......2007-08-20

Beginning akin to Plato's cave and taking the reader on a sweeping journey to Christianity, Chesterton challenges the assumptions of social Darwinists and agnostics with well-reasoned logic leading us back to the church. This is the book that touched the heart of a troubled and seeking C. S. Lewis and lead to his work, Mere Christianity. Readers family with Lewis will see some similarities but will find Chesterton a bit more difficult to follow. Chesterton's style is not the popular style of Lewis but is oftentimes more in depth and profound than Lewis making it well worth the added effort it requires. This is probably the best place to begin with Chesterton and a great tool for developing critical thinking skills.

You either love him or he annoys and bores you - this book is the acid test.......2007-06-29

An enjoyable reading of Chesterton requires:

(1) enduring appreciation for a certain type of meandering, chatty wittiness that likes to play with words and state things in unexpected ways, offering food for thought or just an appreciative chuckle;
(2) lots of time and patience, since each page must be read with careful attention in order to "process" the style and squeeze out and absorb the serious content
(3) some sherry on the side.

Unfortunately my own reading of this work was hampered by an inadequate supply of all three of the above. I read the first few chapters with due diligence, and found the style and content quite enjoyable. Chesterton does offer many unique turns of phrase and "quotable quotes". He supplies both humour and interesting thoughts.

However, after some time I started getting impatient. My attention wandered as I became a bit fatigued of the style, which began to annoy me a bit as too long-winded. I started skimming rather than reading, then skipping pages, then chapters.

This book would be better served as a captivating and brilliant series of lectures. However, in the written medium I prefer more fast-paced and straight-forward language - I read less to enjoy the style than to get the content. That is my own fault, not Chesterton's. As an original thinker and an entertaining wordsmith, he is certainly worthy of the faithful and enthusiastic following that he has commanded since his books were written.

Everlasting Man and the Question of Men's Ability to Think and Use Free Will.......2007-04-22

G.K. Chesteron's book EVERLASTING MAN is an attempt to demonstrate that the Catholic Church, Western Civilization, and Christianity provided many of the answers to historical problems. Chesterton also condemned the attempt of some Westerners whose fads and attempt at something new worked to undermine Western Civilization and the philosophical concept of free. Readers would do well to carefully read this book whether they are Catholic or not.

Chesterton refutes the notion that somehow the Catholic Church has attempted to stifle thought. For example, the pre-historic caves in Lescaux, France were first discovered by a Catholic priest. If the Catholic authorities were engaged in preventing knowledge, they would have kept this discovery secret, and they would have silenced the priest who made this discovery.

Chesteron was clear that ideas, passions, beliefs, etc. are as much realities as physical reality. In age of industrialism, mechanization of thought and culture, etc., Chesteron's comments require careful attention. The one early example Chesterton uses is the Second Punic War (218-202 BC). The Carthaginian commander, Hannibal (247-183 BC)and his men were phenominally successful when they invaded Rome. Hannibal's wealthy supporters were too impressed. These men thought that because Hannibal's men were so successful and the financial supporters spent so much, the Carthaginian financiers figured the Romans were defeated without further ado. Hannibal knew better. What the Carthaginian plutocrats did not realize was the fact that the Romans did not consider themselves defeated. The Carthaginians figured that with all the money spent and Hannibal's success, the war was over. Here Chesterton makes his case. The Carthaginians did not consider just how much Romans hated them. Chesterton correctly asscribes Roman victory to intangibles such determination to expel an alien civilization, serious concern for family and home, proud loyalty, etc. The Carthaginians thought apparent victory and wealth had won the day, and they did not consider that ideas and emotions were realities that eventually led to their defeat. In other words, the Carthaginians did not take into account what could not be tabulated on a balance sheet. As an aside, the Romans hated the Carthaginians' cruel rite of child sacrifice. The Carthaginians also underestimated the skill of the Roman commanders espeically that of Scipio Africanus (237-183 BC).

Chesteron directs readers's attention of the rise of the Catholic Church and the fevor of the monks and religious to enthusiastically embrace the Faith and exert missionary efforts to spread the Faith. This was an important phenomenon. Modern "Experts" might consider the Dark Ages as one of pessimism where men just surrendered to fate and circumstances. Surprisingly, the Catholic Church not only saved Western Civilization but enhanced. It was the Catholic Church who preserved and expanded learning. It was the Catholic Church who gave men hope. Unlike some of the religious concepts of the East, men were not resign themselves to their status and suffer cruel fate. Unlike some of the ideas of Asia, Chesteron informs readers that Westerners were taught they had free will and could make decisions. This meant that ideas, thought, decisions (good or bad)were within the capacity of men. Men who accepted the Catholic Faith could make bad decisions, but the Faith gave men the hope and chance of restoration from evil decisions. In other words, Chesteron argues that the concept of Original Sin is not that men are depraved. It means that men can do better. Men are not all they can be.

Readers would be interest in Chesteron's contrasts of the Catholic Faith and religious concepts which emerged in Asia including the Orient. Chesteron does not condemn these religions as much as he contrasts Catholic thinking with other views and indicates the logical inconsistencies of some of the non-Catholic views.

Chesteron also showed his understanding of the debate between Realists and the Nominalists which took place in the Medieval universities. The Realists argued that ideas and concepts are universals and ultimate principles from which all thought must emerge. The Nominalists, one the other hand, argued there were no such universals, and basic a priori thinking was useless. To the Nominalists, concepts, ultimate ideas, etc. were merely words that men agreed upon. Chesteron warns his readers that such thinking is destructive and leads to useless skeptcisim and empty debate. One only has to read some of the Nominalists' arguements to see how inane they were.

Chesterton's EVERLASTING MAN is not an easy book to read. This reviewer found that this book requires time and careful attention. Yet, this book is well worth the effort. Readers are not only exposed to concise,thoughtful reading, they can also learn again to appreciate Western Civiliztion.

The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton, Volume 2 : The Everlasting Man, St. Francis of Assisi, St Thomas Aquinas

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powerful and passionate apologetics
Chesterton's most important works
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The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton, Volume 2 : The Everlasting Man, St. Francis of Assisi, St Thomas Aquinas
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First Rate Apologetics.......2007-05-25

Chesterton is one of those rare intellects who says things which actually change your perception of the world and alters the way you think. The Everlasting Man is a great book in so many ways. First, as in all books in this volume, TEM is great apologetics. Chesterton challenges arguments in favor of evolution and atheism. He is a tremendously gifted arguer. He has the ability to control an argument, direct where it's going, and reserve his judgment and wisdom until the very last sentence in such a way whereas the reader is more or less at his mercy. Many times, Chesterton was so convincing playing the devil's advocate (when he was giving the opponents arguments), I found myself acknowledging how legitimate some of the evolution's or atheist's points were...until Chesterton demolished all the psuedo-argument he had presented as their opinions as misguided argument or unsound thinking.

The book on Thomas Acquinas is invaluable as well. While only the surface of some of Acquinas' arguments are covered, the ones which are covered are the most powerful and relevant. Also, this serves as a simple, yet very thorough, biography of Acquinas' life.

Chesterton is a deep thinker, but he is also very practical and common sensical. No one can ever accuse him of bringing up irrelevant points or creating unclear argument. He says everything he means to say, nothing more or less.

If you are interested in apologetics and in reading a book which has influenced C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, and not to mention countless other thinkers and writers, you should buy this book. And it's a great deal too.

powerful and passionate apologetics.......2003-01-14

If you're a Catholic Christian and want to appreciate your faith more, these books will serve you well. If you're not Catholic or Christian and wish to encounter the most persuasive apologetics, this is an excellent place to start.

Chesterton is a wonderful writer. A poet by nature, Chesterton focuses on the material and concrete in ways that seems both paradoxical and wondrous. In "Saint Francis of Assisi," Chesterton takes the most popular saint, and presents all those details that really make us modern secularists most uncomfortable with him. In another book here, he links St. Thomas Aquinas to Francis, showing that, despite their vast differences in temperament, they both strove to save and present the goodness of creation and nature and to rebuke (in word or action) those who would hold the bodily in disdain.

In a sense, the biographies here are more than biographies. They're filled with diversions, and those diversions all point in the direction of the remaining book, "The Everlasting Man," which is presented between the other two. The central point here is that the Incarnation is the central event of human history; it allows us to joyously celebrate the good of creation and nature, as God has blessed matter with His very being.

Also, Chesterton is a real pleasure to read, as this passage shows: "One of my first journalistic adventures, or misadventures, concerned a comment on Grant Allen, who had written a book about the Evolution of the Idea of God. I happened to remark that it would be much more interesting if God wrote a book about the evolution of the idea of Grant Allen."

His wit shines in the conclusion of this anecdote. To his bemusement, his editor castigates *him* for being blasphemous. "In that hour I learned many things, including the fact that there is something purely acoustic in much of that agnostic sort of reverence. The editor had not seen the point, because in the title of the book the long word came at the beginning and the short word at the end; whereas in my comments the short word came at the beginning and gave him a sort of shock. I have noticed that if you put a word like God into the same sentence with a word like dog, these abrupt and angular words affect people like pistol-shots. Whether you say that God made the dog or the dog made God does not seem to matter; that is only one of the sterile disputations of the too subtle theologians. But so long as you begin with a long word like evolution the rest will roll harmlessly past; very probably the editor had not read the whole of the title, for it is rather a long title and he was rather a busy man."

Chesterton's most important works.......2002-04-01

This volume contains the most important works of G. K. Chesterton, his study of St. Francis, his study of St. Thomas Aquinas, and _The Everlasting Man_.

I have chosen the word "study" rather than biography deliberately. Readers looking to find a strict chronological account of St. Francis or St. Thomas according to the modern or postmodern canons of historiography should look elsewhere. What Chesterton does is get you at the heart of these two saints. He tells you what they were all about. He is somehow able to convey to his readers the very air that these saints breathed.

And then there is _The Everlasting Man_. While it is hard to characterize, this is Chesterton's best work. Period. Written as an answer to H. G. Wells's _Outline of History_, Chesterton gets at what is most important in human history: the fact that God became Man in Jesus Christ. It really is an incredible book.

Chesterton had an amazing knack to cut to the heart of the matter. If you want to see what St. Francis or St. Thomas were all about, or to appreciate more the Lord who inspired these saints, I would highly recommend this book.

Three brilliant books.......2001-10-19

Ignatius Press has done the world a great favor by releasing their "Collected Works of Chesterton" series. If you can only afford three volumes, get # 1, 2, and 6. If you can only afford one volume, it should be # 2.

Chesterton's book on St Francis is wonderful. Unlike most modern books, it places Francis squarely in Christianity. (Many contemporary books on Francis portray him as a 13th-century hippie, which would have astounded the devout friar!)

The book on Thomas Aquinas is simply the best biography of him ever, and many noted Thomists have agreed with this sentiment.

But "The Everlasting Man" is the true pinnacle of Chesterton's amazing output. In one book he puts "comparative religion" into a new and brilliant perspective. C.S. Lewis listed "Everlasting Man" as one of the reasons he became a Christian, and it really will floor you.

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This widely acclaimed study of biblical anthropology is available once more along with a substantial new preface by the author. Fully engaged with theological, philosophical, and scientific discussions on the nature of human persons and their destiny beyond the grave, John Cooper's defense of “holistic dualism” remains the most satisfying and biblical response to come from the monism-dualism debate. First published in 1989, Body, Soul, and Life Everlasting is required reading for Christian philosophers, theologians, psychologists, and students interested in the mind-body question.

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Holistic Dualism Now and Forever.......2006-09-29

Cooper defends what he states has been the major view throughout church history: holistic dualism. By that term he means that human nature is of one substance with two primary modes of existence: body and soul inseparable in this life and the next. Cooper sees all other views of the nature of human nature as lacking biblical, theological, and historical support.

His study of Hebrews anthropological terms, while interesting, diminishes the conclusions of the classic work by H. W. Wolff. Though Wolfe would agree that there is great semantic overlap among the various terms, he expertly explains that the terms do have a semantic emphasis, and that we can develop a biblical anthropology from those terms. When all is said and done, Wolff's view might be called "Holistic polychotomy"--human nature is one nature with many functions, summarized as relational, rational, volitional, emotional, and physical.

Reviewer: Robert Kellemen, Ph.D., is the author of "Biblical Psychology," "Soul Physicians," "Spiritual Friends," and "Beyond the Suffering: Embracing the Legacy of African American Soul Care and Spiritual Direction."

An indelicate stomp through muddy waters.......2005-10-17

This book wasn't quite what I expected. What I thought it would be is a thorough survey of Biblical anthropology--that is, human nature as presented in the Bible--and a philosophically-minded hermeneutics thereof to extract some data with respect to the mind/body and monism/dualism question. And it is that, sort of. But a more complete description of what it is is an opinionated quasi-screed against monism as the philosophical Zeitgeist of our age. The author has an agenda, and he minces no words furthering it. The thing is, this kind of book is just the thing that could always stand more word-mincing, so to speak. I have no problem with the author having an opinion on his chosen subject and being open about it, it's just that the tone of his particular approach comes out sounding to this reader like at least two parts rhetoric for every one part argumentation.

To begin the book, we're harangued repeatedly with the reminder that if traditional dualism is false, then almost all of Christendom has believed a fundamental falsehood about human nature. Then, the traditional dualist view is presented as under attack from all fronts in Christian scholarship and direly needing defending. This dichotomy sort of sets the tone for the rest of the book.

The OT portion of the book mainly analyzes the various uses of the Hebrew words "ruach" and "nephesh," especially with respect to Sheol. I found all this thoroughly confusing, but Cooper, from somewhere, pulls the conclusion that the data _in toto_ support his own "holistic dualist" view. Then there's a lot of space given to analyzing such language in the intertestamental Apocrypha, and I just did not find this of much interest, these works being noncanonical in the Protestant church. There are all *kinds* of loopy stuff in the Apocrypha, and I really did not understand the point of trying to extract a coherent anthropology from it all. In total, the emphasis of this first 40% or so of the book seemed to be on "What various people through the ages have believed" rather than "What the Bible teaches or assumes". That's kind of disappointing.

Around the middle of the book, where the NT is discussed, a serious and identifiable problem emerges in Cooper's methodology: he sets up a trichotomy between dualism, and, with respect to the resurrection, "extinction-recreationism" and "immediate resurrectionism." Now, "immediate resurrectionism" seems all but untenable Biblically, yet the author spends a lot of time debunking it next to dualism. So all that just comes off as so much straw-man-beating. The deeper and purely philosophical problem with this approach is in Cooper's other straw man, "extinction-recreationism." He simply equates death with nonexistence, and this is a thesis that needs argument, not assumption. In fact, it seems to practically beg the question in favor of his own position.

To me, the mere future fact of the general resurrection just prima facie points to an anthropology of human persons as essentially material beings, to where there needs to be an independent reason shown for thinking that we're consciously disembodied in the interim before being reunited with our bodies: otherwise, it just seems blatantly arbitrary that there should be a resurrection. Cooper does not address this issue by giving reasons for thinking of ourselves this way, but rather simply demolishes some suspiciously gerrymandered-looking strawmen, leaving his own view as the sole remaining competitor. He does say against "extinction-recreation" that if a person is to be re-created, it is logically possible for duplicates of the person to be re-created, and hence there is a fundamental problem with reinstantiation of the original identity rather than duplication of the originally-born person. Here, at last, is an interesting philosophical argument (although not quite a persuasive one, seeing as how it leans on purely "logical possibility," which I'm inclined to be maximally skeptical about--it's "logically possible" I could wake up tomorrow morning as a centipede, but I'm also quite sure it's 100% metaphysically impossible, and hence impossible _tout court_, that I will, or could); unfortunately, it's about the only one in the book I could detect.

At the end of the book, I am still not sure what "holistic dualism" is and how to picture it conceptually. What it does smack of is giving a name to a sort of mathematical mean of all different positions and thereby trying to get the best of all worlds, rather than presenting a unified, explanatory, and independently desirable picture of human nature.

Up to now it probably sounds like I almost hated the book, yet I gave it three stars. Really, I'm being more cranky than I should (largely because it's late and I'm tired); _Body, Soul, and Life Everlasting_ is not totally unhelpful. Although lots of ink is spilled jostling ham-fistedly with strawmen or otherwise being awfully contentious, Cooper is quite conversant with the scholarly Biblical literature, although somewhat less so with the contemporary philosophical literature. The book does give a broad survey of views on the topic; it's just that I found the author's approach far more irksome than winning.

A Clear and Concise Work.......2001-11-29

Cooper manages clarity, brevity, and thoroughness all in one fell swoop attempt at progressing a workable solution in the ageless enigma of body, soul, and spirit.

The book defends a functional integration of human life (body and soul are separate but dependent) on earth and in heaven but a disembodied intermediate state wherein the body and soul will be both separate and independent.

Cooper's research, objective and scrupulous, examines the widest spectrum: (1) Traditional Christian anthropology and its modern critics; (2) Old Testament anthropology's holistic emphasis; (3) Old Testament anthropology's dualistic implications; (4) The anthropology of intertestamental eschatology; (5) The monism-dualism debate about New Testament anthropology; (6) Anthropology and personal eschatology in the New Testament's non-Pauline writings; (7) Anthropology and personal eschatology in the New Testament's Pauline epistles; (8) New Testament eschatology and philosophical anthropology; (9) Practical and theological objections against dualism; (10) Holistic dualism, science, and philosophy; (11) And finally, a vindication of holistic dualism.

Great contribution to the debate!

to be an acsetic or not.......1997-06-23

cooper's book goes into great detail the question people must ask themselves when they read much of Paul's books. Did the body-hating Christians of the first millenium have it right? his answer is very Biblically based, and probably not too surprizing to most who've thought of this question before.

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The Everlasting Man [EasyRead Comfort Edition]

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The Everlasting Man [EasyRead Comfort Edition]
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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Chesterton Day by Day: The Wit and Wisdom of G. K. Chesterton

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The quotes were selected by Chesterton himself, so they represent what he thought was important.
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Chesterton Day by Day: The Wit and Wisdom of G. K. Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton
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Here's a delightful collection of G. K. Chesterton quotes from 1900 to 1911, one for each day of the year--all selected by Chesterton himself. Every word of his 1912 classic is in this newly typeset edition. There are also newly created notes shedding light on events from his day that have been dimmed by the passage of time. In addition, there is a bibliography of sources and a detailed 17-page index to guide you to the quotes you need. Finally, there are several humorous sketches by Chesterton.

This book was previously published in the U.K. in 1911 as A Chesterton Calendar and in the U.S. in 1912 as The Wit and Wisdom of G. K. Chesterton. It includes Chapter 13, "The Movable Feasts," which was left out of the U.S. edition.

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The quotes were selected by Chesterton himself, so they represent what he thought was important........2007-01-17

This book serves two purposes. It is intended to be a daily devotional (like Oswald Chambers "My Utmost For His Highest"), focusing on G. K. Chesterton's wit and wisdom. The quotes were selected by Chesterton himself, so they represent what he thought was important, as opposed to reading another person's second-guessings.

One good point is that it has moveable feasts in an appendix, like Lewis's "The Business of Heaven." A down point is that the book lacks an entry for Leap Day. This is a common mistake made by all devotionals I own, except for Chambers's. If you are smart enough to include the Roman Catholic feast days (which you would expect from Chesterton), then why can't you remember Leap Day? It is beyond me!

The second purpose of the book is an unintentional one. This book serves as a de-facto quote book. I love quote books, since they serve as random sampler for a person's thought. C. S. Lewis said, "The only use of selections is to deter those readers who will never appreciate the original, and thus save them from wasting their time on it, and to send all the others on the original as quickly as possible." (The Quotable Lewis, #447)

This book accomplishes both: it is a wonderful daily devotional, and it whets the appetite for more.

G.K Chesterton.......2006-03-15

I bought this book for my grandmother and she loves it. It's hard for her to sit and read for a lond piriod of time. This book is nice because it has one little reading for every day. I would highly recomend this book.

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The Everlasting Man [EasyRead Edition]
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Looking Unto Jesus: A View of the Everlasting Gospel : Or, the Soul's Eyeing of Jesus, As Carrying on the Great Work of Man's Salvation, from First to Last

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Looking Unto Jesus: A View of the Everlasting Gospel : Or, the Soul's Eyeing of Jesus, As Carrying on the Great Work of Man's Salvation, from First to Last
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Salvation;: Disclosing God's provision for man's protection from disaster and salvation to life everlasting in complete happiness;

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