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title: 'Dabney on Church History to be Enjoyed in Heaven'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2025-05-22
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2025-dabney-on-church-history-to-be-enjoyed-in-heaven
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# Dabney on Church History to be Enjoyed in Heaven

“To comprehend fully the intent of the divine dealings, to read the vast plot fi'om its inception to its consummation, this must be one of the studies of heaven. When we look back thence upon the field fought and won, when we have before us the finished whole, and above all, when we have the tuition of him into whose hand ‘all power in heaven and on earth is given,’ to explain to us the eternal plan, then we shall know fully what is the teaching of history.

And here, fathers and brethren, you will all assent that I have bestowed upon my science the most magnificent encomium which is possible, when I have said that the history of the church is one of the studies and enjoyments of heaven. But is it not true?” — [**Robert L. Dabney**](/authors/robert-lewis-dabney), *Uses and Results of Church History* (1854)