A Portraiture of Quakerism: As Taken from a View of the Moral Education, Discipline, Peculiar Customs, Religious Principles, Political and Civil Oeconomy and Character of the Society of Friends, Volume 3R. Taylor, 1806 - Society of Friends |
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... existence and superintendence of an al- mighty , wise , beneficent , and moral Go- vernor of the World ? Some , again , have imagined , that as the different purifications among the Jews , denoting the holiness of God , signified that ...
... existence and superintendence of an al- mighty , wise , beneficent , and moral Go- vernor of the World ? Some , again , have imagined , that as the different purifications among the Jews , denoting the holiness of God , signified that ...
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... existence they were to give an account of their conduct , and were to be rewarded or punished accordingly . The same religion , it would be replied also , in- culcated , notwithstanding their fightings , the utmost benevolence from one ...
... existence they were to give an account of their conduct , and were to be rewarded or punished accordingly . The same religion , it would be replied also , in- culcated , notwithstanding their fightings , the utmost benevolence from one ...
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... existence - from their ignorance of many of the degrading diversions of the world -from their great tenet on war - from their dis- cipline , which inculcates equality — and watch- fulness over morals — and from their doctrine , that man ...
... existence - from their ignorance of many of the degrading diversions of the world -from their great tenet on war - from their dis- cipline , which inculcates equality — and watch- fulness over morals — and from their doctrine , that man ...
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... existence is always to be attended , to in their treatment - and from their opinion as to what ought to be the influence of the Gospel , as recorded in their own Summary . THE word Benevolence , when applied to the character of the ...
... existence is always to be attended , to in their treatment - and from their opinion as to what ought to be the influence of the Gospel , as recorded in their own Summary . THE word Benevolence , when applied to the character of the ...
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... existence the use and intention ought always to be considered , and to whom rights arise from various causes , any viola- tion of which is a violation of a moral law . This principle , if attended to by the Qua- kers , must , as I have ...
... existence the use and intention ought always to be considered , and to whom rights arise from various causes , any viola- tion of which is a violation of a moral law . This principle , if attended to by the Qua- kers , must , as I have ...
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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 86 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Page 18 - 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 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.
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 27 - Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy: but I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you...
Page 117 - 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 341 - ... train up a child in the way he should go, that when he is old he will not depart from it.
Page 375 - This person, having filled a public station in the former times, lived now a private and retired life in London, and having wholly lost his sight, kept always a man to read to him, which usually was the son of some gentleman of his acquaintance, whom in kindness he took to improve in his learning.
Page 33 - Put up again thy sword into his place : for all they that take the sword shall perish by the sword.