The Friends' Library: Comprising Journals, Doctrinal Treatises, and Other Writings of Members of the Religious Society of FriendsWilliam Evans, Thomas Evans J. Rakestraw, 1837 - Quakers |
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... gave rise to the close and sharp reproof , which our early Friends so often found it their duty to administer . The few parliaments which James and Charles assembled , evinced a disposition to apply some remedy to the religious ...
... gave rise to the close and sharp reproof , which our early Friends so often found it their duty to administer . The few parliaments which James and Charles assembled , evinced a disposition to apply some remedy to the religious ...
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... gave himself a ransom for all men , to be testified in due time , and is the pro- pitiation , not for the sins of Christians only , but for the sins of the whole world . " Again , he observes , " Do not neglect your family meetings ...
... gave himself a ransom for all men , to be testified in due time , and is the pro- pitiation , not for the sins of Christians only , but for the sins of the whole world . " Again , he observes , " Do not neglect your family meetings ...
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... gave a striking evidence of this on one occasion , when Na- thaniel Stevens , the priest of his native town , asked him " Why Christ cried out on the cross , My God , my God , why hast thou for- saken me ? and why he said , If it be ...
... gave a striking evidence of this on one occasion , when Na- thaniel Stevens , the priest of his native town , asked him " Why Christ cried out on the cross , My God , my God , why hast thou for- saken me ? and why he said , If it be ...
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... gave himself up to the Lord . " One day , when I had been walking solitarily abroad , " he says , " and was come home , I was taken up in the love of God , so that I could not but admire the greatness of his love ; and while I was in ...
... gave himself up to the Lord . " One day , when I had been walking solitarily abroad , " he says , " and was come home , I was taken up in the love of God , so that I could not but admire the greatness of his love ; and while I was in ...
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... gave occasion to the irreligious to speak ill of at the Market Cross and in the place of wor- the profession of Christianity . The enemies of ship , and the doctrines he delivered not being Friends , failing in their other accusations ...
... gave occasion to the irreligious to speak ill of at the Market Cross and in the place of wor- the profession of Christianity . The enemies of ship , and the doctrines he delivered not being Friends , failing in their other accusations ...
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Page 454 - Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
Page 182 - And Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.
Page 300 - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Page 222 - For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
Page 302 - By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season : esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt ; for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward.
Page 11 - But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
Page 263 - But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with ? They say unto him, We are able.
Page 234 - For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment ; and ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him ; Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor; Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool ; are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts...
Page 206 - Verily I say unto you, that ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Page 302 - They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins, and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented; (of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.