A Portraiture of Quakerism,: Taken from a View of the Moral Education, Discipline, Peculiar Customs, Religious Principles, Political and Civil Œconomy, and Character, of the Society of Friends, Volume 3R. Taylor and Company, 1807 - Society of Friends |
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... Christians are not to take Civil oaths - reasons of the Quakers for their disuse of them CHAP . III . •• 12 SECT . 1. War - unlawful for Christians to fight — scrip- tural passages in support of this tenet - an- swers to these , and ...
... Christians are not to take Civil oaths - reasons of the Quakers for their disuse of them CHAP . III . •• 12 SECT . 1. War - unlawful for Christians to fight — scrip- tural passages in support of this tenet - an- swers to these , and ...
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... Christians further exa- mined - while Christianity continued pure , they held it unlawful to fight — as it became less pure , their scruples against war declined— as it became corrupt , they ceased 64 SECT . 5. Reflections of the Author ...
... Christians further exa- mined - while Christianity continued pure , they held it unlawful to fight — as it became less pure , their scruples against war declined— as it became corrupt , they ceased 64 SECT . 5. Reflections of the Author ...
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... Christians , where they believe a com- pliance with any law or custom to be wrong CHAP . VI . 186 Sixth is that in political affairs they reason upon prin- ciple , and not upon consequences .. 199 СНАР . CHAP . VII . Seventh is ...
... Christians , where they believe a com- pliance with any law or custom to be wrong CHAP . VI . 186 Sixth is that in political affairs they reason upon prin- ciple , and not upon consequences .. 199 СНАР . CHAP . VII . Seventh is ...
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... Christianity , with respect to laws , as to enable us to say that there is any govern- ment in the known world , of Christian ori- gin , or any government wholly upon the principles of the Gospel . If all men were to become real Christians ...
... Christianity , with respect to laws , as to enable us to say that there is any govern- ment in the known world , of Christian ori- gin , or any government wholly upon the principles of the Gospel . If all men were to become real Christians ...
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... Christians , whom they will always find to be the best part of their communities ; or , in other words , how they make laws , which Christians , on account of their religious scruples , cannot conscientiously obey . It is a tenet of the ...
... Christians , whom they will always find to be the best part of their communities ; or , in other words , how they make laws , which Christians , on account of their religious scruples , cannot conscientiously obey . It is a tenet of the ...
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Page 28 - For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ...
Page 119 - Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.
Page 118 - Then said he unto them, But now he that hath a purse let him take it, and likewise his scrip : and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one.
Page 18 - 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 : but I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne: nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King. Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black. But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay...
Page 18 - Lord thine oaths; but I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven, for it is God's throne; nor by the earth, for it is his footstool; neither by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black. But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay; for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
Page 121 - Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being examples to the flock. And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.
Page 33 - Put up again thy sword into his place : for all they that take the sword shall perish by the sword.
Page 335 - ... train up a child in the way he should go, that when he is old he will not depart from it.
Page 58 - I cannot fight, if I die. I am not a soldier of this world, but a soldier of God.
Page 120 - What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.