...necessary, that it would in many instances prove hurtful, and often prevent the accomplishment. " It is not for us to " know the times and the seasons which the Father " hath put into his own power." In the course of a few years only, how have all our conjectures been...

...peculiar display of the divine power — they have said, the time to build is not come, as if it were for us to know the times and the seasons which the Father hath in his own power: whereas, we ought to have gone forth and ploughed up the fallow ground — scattered...

...church, and, by purifying the gospel from one of its most revolting difficulties, preparing the way for its progress among those nations to whom the popular...the open defection from the doctrines of orthodoxy, extensive and increasing as it is, is far less than the secret and almost unconscious renunciation...

...not discerning the signs of the times ; while in the passage before us, he tells us that it is not for us to know the times and the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power. Now there is no contradiction in these two passages, though it may be thought...

...in faith ? Whether God will at this day bless the gospel at home or abroad, we know not. ' It is not for us to know the times and the seasons which the Father hath put in his own pow» er' — it is for us to obey. For eventual success in any of our endeavours,...

...in faith ? Whether God will at this day bless the gospel at home or abroad, we know not. ' It is not for us to know the times and the seasons which the Father hath put in his own power' — it is for us to obey. For eventual success in any of our endeavours,...

...wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel ? And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times and the seasons, which the Father has put in his own power." Observe, it is not the destruction of Jerusalem ; it is not the preaching of the Gospel among the heathen...

...the government of the church. Where all this disagreement shall end is concealed from us. ' It is not for us to know the times and the seasons, which the Father hath put in His own power.' What we have to do is so much the less • secret, that it is clearly and...

...be thankful if it shall please GOD, at any time, to take the veil off your hearts, but ' it is not for us to know the times and the seasons which the Father has put in hig own power.' I am not one of those proselyting zealots who, for the chance of. gaining some few...

...think that the exposition of unfulfilled prophecy, does not lie within our province, and that it is not for us " to know the times and the " seasons which the Father hath put in his own power." . It appears to us, that the true practical end of all the New Testament...