Barclay and His AssailantsR. Smeal, 1872 - 48 pages |
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Page 9
... less to build up higher than its own level ; its application is neces- sarily bounded by the limitation of our intellectual faculties ; and there are regions of which we have cognizance , but far above the reach and comprehension of our ...
... less to build up higher than its own level ; its application is neces- sarily bounded by the limitation of our intellectual faculties ; and there are regions of which we have cognizance , but far above the reach and comprehension of our ...
Page 10
... less with the odium theologicum , may be made to signify almost anything . If it means , in the sense in which it was used in reference to Barclay , a worship of the human intellect , and a dependence upon the reasoning faculties for ...
... less with the odium theologicum , may be made to signify almost anything . If it means , in the sense in which it was used in reference to Barclay , a worship of the human intellect , and a dependence upon the reasoning faculties for ...
Page 11
... less in times that are past than they are in the present . Truth can never suffer from the freest and fullest ... less Romanists at heart ; and every church , when put to the test , more or less openly assumes the dictum of its own ...
... less in times that are past than they are in the present . Truth can never suffer from the freest and fullest ... less Romanists at heart ; and every church , when put to the test , more or less openly assumes the dictum of its own ...
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... less in harmony with , and illustrative of our principles . Among these , Barclay's Apology has stood pre - eminent ; the sanction of the Society has been unreservedly accorded to it ; and it has remained unchallenged down to the ...
... less in harmony with , and illustrative of our principles . Among these , Barclay's Apology has stood pre - eminent ; the sanction of the Society has been unreservedly accorded to it ; and it has remained unchallenged down to the ...
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... less prominent position now accorded in our discipline , to what are usually called our " peculiarities . " By this it seems I have been understood to justify their abolition . * The whole tenor of the subsequent remarks , I think ...
... less prominent position now accorded in our discipline , to what are usually called our " peculiarities . " By this it seems I have been understood to justify their abolition . * The whole tenor of the subsequent remarks , I think ...
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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.