...end.—And, lo, the heavens are opened, and the habitations of the blessed disclose themselves to view. The glorious company of the apostles, the goodly fellowship of the prophets, the noble army of martyrs, all that have departed hence, from the beginning of the world, in the faith and fear of God, a great...

...— And, lo, the heavens are opened, and the habitations of the blessed disclose themselves to view. The glorious company of the apostles, the goodly fellowship of the prophets, the noble army of martyrs, all that have departed hence, from the beginning of the World, in the faith and fear of God, a great...

...on the term by the fathers, in order to conceive the full force of that passage in the Te Detim ; " The glorious company of the Apostles • — the goodly fellowship of the Prophets —praise thee." Indeed, we conceive the term Apastles also to be there used with a «imilar extension...

...received of the Lord Jesus, and preached the Gospel to the Heathen world. Through patience, in a word, the glorious company of the apostles, the goodly fellowship of the prophets, and the noble army of martyrs and confessors, fought the good fight, finished their course, and kept...

...1814. "Who would not wish, in the temple, to bear upon his lips those psalms, and prayers, in which the glorious company of the apostles, the goodly fellowship of the prophets, and the noble army of martyrs, have uttered their devotions to God ! How dead must he be to the finest...

...redeemed of every tribe, and kindred, and people, and tongue ; the venerable society of the patriarchs, " the glorious company of the apostles, the goodly fellowship of the prophets, the noble army of martyrs, the holy church triumphant," who, having fought under the standard of Jesus, now partake in his triumph....

...devout historian as his pen > has traced events of this description. It was not possible to speak of the glorious company of the Apostles, the goodly fellowship...of the Prophets, the noble army of Martyrs, and the confessors, fathers, ministers, and members of the " holy church universal," as they have successively...

...of the spirits of just men made perfect ; to be like the holy angels, and ever with them ; to join the glorious company of the apostles, the goodly fellowship...of the prophets, the noble army of martyrs, and the whole church universal and triumphant. Who can tell the enraptured emotions of the redeemed soul, escaping...

...; and snatched from the lowest sink of corruption, to be placed the next moment inthesame rank with the glorious company of the Apostles, the goodly fellowship of the Prophets, the noble army of Martyrs, and all those holy persons who, through patience and tribulation, have inherited the promises. The faith...

...Trinity being indicated by the repetition of the appropriate term ' holy ;' -to this tri-une Divinity, the ' glorious company of the apostles,' ' the goodly...fellowship of the prophets,' ' the noble army of martyrs,' are said to give praise ; the three persons are then declared to be acknowledged ' by the holy church...