...come which like a burning oven will purify them; and this is what the second text expresses, " But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiners fire," &c. Thus he saith, " Behold, I will send my messenger who...

...will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me," says at the second verse, But who may abide the day of his coming ? and who shall stand when he appeareth ? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fuller's soap." ' " This description can have...

...them. Malachi treats the same subject, and represents the same event under the like images : " But who may abide the day of his coming ? And who shall stand when he appeared! ? For he is like the fire of the refiner. And like the soap of the fullers. And he shall...

...messengerof the covenant, whom ye delight in : behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts. But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth ? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fuller's soap. And he shall sit as a refiner...

...Allusions are continually made in Scripture to this property of fire. Malachi iii. 2, 3 : " But who may abide the day of his coming, and who shall stand when he appeareth ? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap ; and he shall sit as a refiner...

...to judge both the quick and dead. But here, that important question forcibly occurs to the mind, Who may abide the day of his coming; and who shall stand when he appeareth ? This inquiry is most satisfactorily answered in the services appointed for the next three...

...which was long ago spoken by the prophet Malachi, will then be clearly known and understood : " But who may abide the day of his coming ? and who shall stand " when he appeareth ? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fuller's " soap. And he shall sit as a refmer...

...messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in ; behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts. But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap. And he shall sit as a refiner and...

...event as a source of unusual joy, and to Call not men only, but the very inanimate creation, to jam in it. The truth is, the same event which afforded...represents it in chap. iii. 2. Who may abide the day of 7ii* coining ? and who shall stand when he appeareth ? And the fact was, that for its rejection of...

...the fearful scrutiny of that day, well may we look to ourselves with fear and trembling : For " who may abide the day of His coming; and who shall stand when He appeareth ?"f It is, indeed, an overwhelming thought. But He who hath assured us of these things, hath...