Barclay and His AssailantsR. Smeal, 1872 - 48 pages |
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... ground of their unscrip- tural character ; which though not allowed to be passed over wholly in silence , were without restraint from the table . Similar views have been manifest in other parts of the country ; and at a recent Monthly ...
... ground of their unscrip- tural character ; which though not allowed to be passed over wholly in silence , were without restraint from the table . Similar views have been manifest in other parts of the country ; and at a recent Monthly ...
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... ground , and commend the spiritual truths which underlie the form to the learned controversialists and acute reasoners with whom that age abounded . Were he now writing , he would probably adopt a very different form ; but which the ...
... ground , and commend the spiritual truths which underlie the form to the learned controversialists and acute reasoners with whom that age abounded . Were he now writing , he would probably adopt a very different form ; but which the ...
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... ground to stand upon and no inherent vitality , it is impossible for them to be self - sustaining . They may be propped up , and false strength may be imparted to them by injudicious treatment , unfair opposition , or arbitrary ...
... ground to stand upon and no inherent vitality , it is impossible for them to be self - sustaining . They may be propped up , and false strength may be imparted to them by injudicious treatment , unfair opposition , or arbitrary ...
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... ground , but it cannot be expected of the young . The rising generation is sure to make an advance upon the old one , on the side of laxity , under the tuition of example and the influence of familiarity . Whether rightly traced or not ...
... ground , but it cannot be expected of the young . The rising generation is sure to make an advance upon the old one , on the side of laxity , under the tuition of example and the influence of familiarity . Whether rightly traced or not ...
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... will ever form the true ground of Christian communion , of which the Society of Friends has hitherto been the only type . The same influences are manifest in the documents which have been issued by the Society of late years . Many 19.
... will ever form the true ground of Christian communion , of which the Society of Friends has hitherto been the only type . The same influences are manifest in the documents which have been issued by the Society of late years . Many 19.
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Page 48 - In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
Page 45 - Christ liveth in them ; and the life that they now live in the flesh, they live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved them, and gave himself for them
Page 46 - All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.
Page 36 - Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you except ye be reprobates?
Page 25 - An apology for the true Christian divinity as the same is held forth and preached by the people called in scorn Quakers...
Page 42 - For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?
Page 32 - ... the light of Christ within, as God's gift for man's salvation. This, I say, is as the root of the goodly tree of doctrines that grew and branched out from it, which I shall now mention in their natural and experimental order.
Page 47 - Christ as the Word which was in the beginning with God, and was God...
Page 45 - And him we should advise, though he was still dark of soul, and had never seen the light of God's countenance, yet to "trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God.