Barclay and His AssailantsR. Smeal, 1872 - 48 pages |
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Page 15
... lead into some outward manifestations of individuality . Amid the dead current of opposition in our daily commerce with the world , I doubt whether those views and principles can be maintained in their integrity , without the aid of ...
... lead into some outward manifestations of individuality . Amid the dead current of opposition in our daily commerce with the world , I doubt whether those views and principles can be maintained in their integrity , without the aid of ...
Page 17
... leads either into fanaticism on the one hand , or into un- certain notions , spiritual self - sufficiency , sloth , and passivity on the other . There is no success without enthusiasm ; and they always referred to the written Word as ...
... leads either into fanaticism on the one hand , or into un- certain notions , spiritual self - sufficiency , sloth , and passivity on the other . There is no success without enthusiasm ; and they always referred to the written Word as ...
Page 18
... lead away from singleness of purpose . We find men and women quite as good , quite as zealous , quite as self - sacrificing as our- selves , with whom we are brought into close contact , but from whom we have differed fundamentally in ...
... lead away from singleness of purpose . We find men and women quite as good , quite as zealous , quite as self - sacrificing as our- selves , with whom we are brought into close contact , but from whom we have differed fundamentally in ...
Page 42
... leads up to faith , the substance of all true religion , the greatest need and resting- place of the soul . Our Lord emphatically proclaimed , that His kingdom was " not of this world . " It cannot , therefore , be promoted by the appli ...
... leads up to faith , the substance of all true religion , the greatest need and resting- place of the soul . Our Lord emphatically proclaimed , that His kingdom was " not of this world . " It cannot , therefore , be promoted by the appli ...
Page 47
... leads on to perfection , and during the course of His operations he says , " Be ye perfect . " So , through His power , we advance towards it , and when completely under subjection [ are ] made perfect . " The carnal mind is enmity ...
... leads on to perfection , and during the course of His operations he says , " Be ye perfect . " So , through His power , we advance towards it , and when completely under subjection [ are ] made perfect . " The carnal mind is enmity ...
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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.