A words - abyss

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Abyss

Old Testament (0)

New Testament (0)

Book of Mormon (2) [“darkest abyss”] Mosiah 27:29; Alma 26:3

Doctrine and Covenants (0)

Pearl of Great Price (0)

Edwards (62) [10 in 1808]

Evans ( “abyss” 548) [0x “darkest abyss”] [6x abyss of darkness 18c only but no jE]

29 My soul hath been redeemed from the gall of bitterness and bonds of iniquity. I was in the darkest abyss; but now I behold the marvelous light of God. My soul was racked with eternal torment; but I am snatched, and my soul is pained no more.

(Mosiah 27:29)

 

3 Behold, I answer for you; for our brethren, the Lamanites, were in darkness, yea, even in the darkest abyss, but behold, how many of them are brought to behold the marvelous light of God! And this is the blessing which hath been bestowed upon us, that we have been made instruments in the hands of God to bring about this great work.

(Alma 26:3)

 

Cf: 9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

(1 Peter 2:9)

 

 

25. Jonathan Edwards. Typological Writings (WJE Online... [page 56 | Paragraph | SubSect | Section]

of them and of the beauty of their color, when there are here and [there] interposed little clouds, livelily denotes the exaltedness and purity of the blessedness of the heavenly inhabitants. How different is the idea from that which we have in the consideration of the dark and dire caverns and abyss down in the depths of the earth. This teaches us the vast difference between the state of the departed saints and of damned souls: it shows the ineffable glory of the happiness of the one and the unspeakable dolefulness and horrors of the state of the other. See no. 212.

36. Jonathan Edwards. Sermons and Discourses, 1739-1742... [page 272 | Paragraph | Sub2Sect | SubSect | Section]

yet remains. To think of an eternity of this torment remaining, O! how will it fill and overbear and sink down the poor soul; how will the thought of a duration of this torment, that shall never never end, cause the heart to melt like wax; how will the thought as it were sink it into a bottomless abyss of darkness and gloominess. And as those proud sturdy spirits, the devils, do tremble at the thoughts of that greater torment that they are to suffer at the day of judgment, so will the poor damned souls. They will already have vastly more than they can bear. How will they tremble,

1. Jonathan Edwards. Religious Affections (WJE Online... [page 316 | Paragraph | SubSect | Section]

could, by the strength of their own lights and heats, together with some common elevations and raisures of spirit (peradventure from a more than ordinary, though not special and saving assistance of the Spirit), abandon many grosser vices; yet they were all deeply immersed in that miserable cursed abyss of spiritual pride: so that all their natural and moral and philosophic attainments, did feed, nourish, strengthen, and render most inveterate, this hell-bred pest of their hearts. Yea those of them that seemed most modest, as the Academics, who professed they knew nothing, and the Cynics,