Barclay and His AssailantsR. Smeal, 1872 - 48 pages |
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... Sufferings , " as to check the distribu- tion of the Apology in a cheap form ; though not without dis- sentient voices . Exception was likewise taken at our last Yearly Meeting , from no insignificant quarter , to the teachings of ...
... Sufferings , " as to check the distribu- tion of the Apology in a cheap form ; though not without dis- sentient voices . Exception was likewise taken at our last Yearly Meeting , from no insignificant quarter , to the teachings of ...
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... suffer from the freest and fullest inquiry , provided it be under- taken in all sincerity and singleness of purpose without partial or sinister motive of any kind . He who would evade any such ordeal only evinces his own want of faith ...
... suffer from the freest and fullest inquiry , provided it be under- taken in all sincerity and singleness of purpose without partial or sinister motive of any kind . He who would evade any such ordeal only evinces his own want of faith ...
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... suffering , are not so prominently set forth as formerly . They are now held with bated breath and subdued voice , as if we were more than half- ashamed of them . The opposition to Barclay indicates even a denial of more than one of our ...
... suffering , are not so prominently set forth as formerly . They are now held with bated breath and subdued voice , as if we were more than half- ashamed of them . The opposition to Barclay indicates even a denial of more than one of our ...
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... sufferings ; for the passing of marriages ; to watch over the discharge of civil duties in general ; to counsel and aid one another in the outward affairs and perplexities of life , so as to throw , as it were , over everything secular ...
... sufferings ; for the passing of marriages ; to watch over the discharge of civil duties in general ; to counsel and aid one another in the outward affairs and perplexities of life , so as to throw , as it were , over everything secular ...
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... sufferings in the cause of Truth , endured even unto martyrdom by our early predecessors , for progress in the Society of Friends . Should we allow the only ground upon which we can possibly stand gradually to be slipping away from ...
... sufferings in the cause of Truth , endured even unto martyrdom by our early predecessors , for progress in the Society of Friends . Should we allow the only ground upon which we can possibly stand gradually to be slipping away from ...
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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.