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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... happiness to man , it is their duty to determine that he intended to give it , not in a limited proportion , but in the largest measure , But when they con- sider the nature of wars , —that they militate against the law of preservation ...
... happiness to man , it is their duty to determine that he intended to give it , not in a limited proportion , but in the largest measure , But when they con- sider the nature of wars , —that they militate against the law of preservation ...
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... happiness of others . We seem to make no proper estimates of the miseries of war . The latter we feel principally in abridgements of a pe- cuniary nature . But if we were to feel them in the conflagration of our towns and vil- lages ...
... happiness of others . We seem to make no proper estimates of the miseries of war . The latter we feel principally in abridgements of a pe- cuniary nature . But if we were to feel them in the conflagration of our towns and vil- lages ...
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... Superior Being would un- questionably be grieved at this account , be- cause he would feel that they really frus trated their own happiness , or that they lost by by their own fault a considerable portion of the enjoyment 80 GREAT TENETS .
... Superior Being would un- questionably be grieved at this account , be- cause he would feel that they really frus trated their own happiness , or that they lost by by their own fault a considerable portion of the enjoyment 80 GREAT TENETS .
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... happiness , and the production of so much evil ? It would be replied , -nothing . The community is generally worse off at the end of these wars than when it began to con- tend . But here the Superior Being would wish to hear no more of ...
... happiness , and the production of so much evil ? It would be replied , -nothing . The community is generally worse off at the end of these wars than when it began to con- tend . But here the Superior Being would wish to hear no more of ...
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... , it will do good to our own natures , good to the peace and happiness of the world , and ho- nour to the religion of the Gospel . SECTION SECTION VIII . Subject finally considered - Authors of wars 106 GREAT TENETS .
... , it will do good to our own natures , good to the peace and happiness of the world , and ho- nour to the religion of the Gospel . SECTION SECTION VIII . Subject finally considered - Authors of wars 106 GREAT TENETS .
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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.