Barclay and His AssailantsR. Smeal, 1872 - 48 pages |
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Page 4
... matter , and see what it means . Such strange alterations occur in the current of opinion , that what is evidence to one generation or to one order of mind , is no longer evidence to another generation or to another order of mind ...
... matter , and see what it means . Such strange alterations occur in the current of opinion , that what is evidence to one generation or to one order of mind , is no longer evidence to another generation or to another order of mind ...
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... matter really stands . The facts are these . Recently , from time to time , certain pamphlets have appeared , -emanating from members high in station in our Society , and deservedly esteemed for their works ' sake , impugning in no ...
... matter really stands . The facts are these . Recently , from time to time , certain pamphlets have appeared , -emanating from members high in station in our Society , and deservedly esteemed for their works ' sake , impugning in no ...
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... matters appertaining to religion , serve usually to harden into conventionalism , strengthen opposition , or build up only speculative truths at the best , which are liable to be thrown down or subverted by the same weapons , wielded ...
... matters appertaining to religion , serve usually to harden into conventionalism , strengthen opposition , or build up only speculative truths at the best , which are liable to be thrown down or subverted by the same weapons , wielded ...
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... matter of the accusation . " Rationalism , " like every other word employed to stigmatize a difference of religious views or of interpretation , and imbued more or less with the odium theologicum , may be made to signify almost anything ...
... matter of the accusation . " Rationalism , " like every other word employed to stigmatize a difference of religious views or of interpretation , and imbued more or less with the odium theologicum , may be made to signify almost anything ...
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... matters of conscience , especially if on the part of our nearest friend or brother , we have no right to assume the attitude of our own correctness and superiority , our freedom from error and infirmity of judgment , our own ...
... matters of conscience , especially if on the part of our nearest friend or brother , we have no right to assume the attitude of our own correctness and superiority , our freedom from error and infirmity of judgment , our own ...
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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.