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John Nelson Darby [1800-1882] English

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John Nelson Darby was an Anglo-Irish Bible teacher, one of the influential figures among the original Plymouth Brethren and the founder of the Exclusive Brethren. He is considered to be the father of modern Dispensationalism and Futurism.

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The Reformation did not directly touch the question of the true character of God's church.	God	101
Obedience to the word in humility of mind never confuses.		102
Nothing is more prominently brought forward in the New Testament than the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.		103
The presence of the Holy Spirit is the keystone of all our hopes.		104
To rest satisfied with existing evils, as if we could do nothing, is not obedience; but neither is it obedience to imitate the actions of the apostles.		105
Let those who like society better have it.		106
But the more we search the Scriptures, the more we perceive, in this doctrine, the fundamental truth of the gospel - that truth which gives to redemption its character, and to all other truths their real power.		107
I know that those who esteem these little organised associations to be the churches of God, see nothing but mere meetings of men in every other gathering of God's children.		108
I had always owned them to be the Word of God... the careful reading of the Acts afforded me a practical picture of the early church; which made me feel deeply the contrast with its actual present state; though still, as ever beloved by God.		109
I can say, Christ has been my only object; thank God, my righteousness too... Hold fast to Christ.		110
The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect.		111
Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate.		112
The salvation of the elect was as certain before His advent, though accomplished by it, as afterwards.		113
Nationalism - in other words, the dividing of the church into bodies - consisting of such and such a nation, is a novelty, not above three centuries old, although many dear children of God are found dwelling in it.		114
If real churches exist, such persons are not called on to make them.		115
I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity.		116
Among the children of God, it was they who were most able to rightly divide the word of truth.		117
I held apostolic succession fully, and the channels of grace to be there only.		118
During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me.		119
Christ preferred the poor; ever since I have been converted so have I.		120
After deep exercise of soul I was brought by grace to feel I could entirely.		121
The cross is the centre of all this in every respect.		122
Some respected and beloved brethren insist that the forming and organising of churches is, according to God's will, the only means of finding blessing in the midst of that confusion which is acknowledged to exist.		123
It is the desire of our hearts, and as we believe God's will under this dispensation, that all the children of God should be gathered together as such, and, consequently, as not of the world.		124
By one Spirit we are all baptised into one body.		125
This truth of the gathering together of God's children is in Scripture seen realised in various localities, and in each central locality the Christians resident therein composed but one body: Scripture is perfectly clear on that head.		126
I go farther, and say, that it is plainly our duty to desire pastors and teachers to take the care of such congregations, and that God did raise up such in the church as we see it in the word.		201
Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin.		202
God is sufficient in all ages for His church.		203

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