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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... extend themselves naturally to those which are public , the Quakers conceive it reasonable to suppose from the following consideration : No man , they they apprehend , can possess practically the divine principle of 34 GREAT TENETS .
... extend themselves naturally to those which are public , the Quakers conceive it reasonable to suppose from the following consideration : No man , they they apprehend , can possess practically the divine principle of 34 GREAT TENETS .
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... suppose that wars should cease , and that no precept should have been held out that they were wrong . But the more enlarged interpretation of the words . in question furnishes such a precept , and therefore another foundation seems to ...
... suppose that wars should cease , and that no precept should have been held out that they were wrong . But the more enlarged interpretation of the words . in question furnishes such a precept , and therefore another foundation seems to ...
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... suppose that it was his desire to destroy it , not partially , but to the utmost possible extent . If it was his design to give happiness to man , it is their duty to determine that he intended to give it , not in a limited proportion ...
... suppose that it was his desire to destroy it , not partially , but to the utmost possible extent . If it was his design to give happiness to man , it is their duty to determine that he intended to give it , not in a limited proportion ...
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... Suppose thyself , " says he , " with me on the top of some very exalted eminence , and from thence looking down upon the appear- ances of things beneath thee . Let our pro- spect take in the whole horizon , and let us view , with the ...
... Suppose thyself , " says he , " with me on the top of some very exalted eminence , and from thence looking down upon the appear- ances of things beneath thee . Let our pro- spect take in the whole horizon , and let us view , with the ...
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... suppose that , when they became converted in them , they relinquished their profession . Human nature was the same both in and out of the armies , and would be equally worked upon in this new state of things in both cases . Accordingly ...
... suppose that , when they became converted in them , they relinquished their profession . Human nature was the same both in and out of the armies , and would be equally worked upon in this new state of things in both cases . Accordingly ...
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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.