A Treatise on Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Religion: In which are Illustrated the Profession, Ministry, Worship, and Faith of the Society of Friends |
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... reasons for their dissent from others , but as such reasons were spread among controversial writings , no regular system or concentrated profession of their belief had as yet appeared . These circumstances continued until Robert Barclay ...
... reasons for their dissent from others , but as such reasons were spread among controversial writings , no regular system or concentrated profession of their belief had as yet appeared . These circumstances continued until Robert Barclay ...
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... reason to believe is at this day not so frequently and deliber- ately resorted to as we could wish . Not only strangers to the society of Friends , but many of our young people , it is believed , might be benefitted by having a work ...
... reason to believe is at this day not so frequently and deliber- ately resorted to as we could wish . Not only strangers to the society of Friends , but many of our young people , it is believed , might be benefitted by having a work ...
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... reason to believe that salvation was confined by immutable decree to the Jews .-- Now he finds it governed by conditions . And so also we believe , " That of a truth God is no respecter of persons , but in every nation he that feareth ...
... reason to believe that salvation was confined by immutable decree to the Jews .-- Now he finds it governed by conditions . And so also we believe , " That of a truth God is no respecter of persons , but in every nation he that feareth ...
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... reasons for making this distinction ; some of which it may not be improper to mention.- The Word of God as described by the evangelist John , we believe has an uni- versal influence , which cannot be ad- mitted in relation to the ...
... reasons for making this distinction ; some of which it may not be improper to mention.- The Word of God as described by the evangelist John , we believe has an uni- versal influence , which cannot be ad- mitted in relation to the ...
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... , Self Existent , Ineonceivable Spirit ; which formed and preserves the universe , and that particular spirit , with which , for aw ful reasons , he has animated a portion D of matter on earth , that we call man . TREATISE . 37.
... , Self Existent , Ineonceivable Spirit ; which formed and preserves the universe , and that particular spirit , with which , for aw ful reasons , he has animated a portion D of matter on earth , that we call man . TREATISE . 37.
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Page 98 - I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance; but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire; whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
Page 12 - It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you : but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
Page 52 - Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
Page 26 - For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female : for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Page 34 - And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; We have waited for him, and he will save us: This is the Lord ; we have waited for him , We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
Page 130 - For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things, " that ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication, from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well.
Page 120 - And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people : and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruninghooks : nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Page 86 - He that regardeth the day regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.
Page 107 - Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths...
Page 96 - And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.