The Quakers: A Study Historical and CriticalSwan Sonnenschein, 1889 - 408 pages |
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... whole truth , and nothing but the truth , has been his aim . The foresight that some of the Friends will be grieved by portions of the book is painful to the writer . But those whose forefathers called themselves not barely " Friends ...
... whole truth , and nothing but the truth , has been his aim . The foresight that some of the Friends will be grieved by portions of the book is painful to the writer . But those whose forefathers called themselves not barely " Friends ...
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... whole generation of mortal combat , Catholicism and Protestantism stood face to face , bleed- ing and breathless , yet mutually defiant and irreconcile- able . Germany was half - depopulated . Once flourishing cities were ruined , and ...
... whole generation of mortal combat , Catholicism and Protestantism stood face to face , bleed- ing and breathless , yet mutually defiant and irreconcile- able . Germany was half - depopulated . Once flourishing cities were ruined , and ...
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... whole truth , and nothing but the truth , has been his aim . The foresight that some of the Friends will be grieved by portions of the book is painful to the writer . But those whose forefathers called themselves not barely " Friends ...
... whole truth , and nothing but the truth , has been his aim . The foresight that some of the Friends will be grieved by portions of the book is painful to the writer . But those whose forefathers called themselves not barely " Friends ...
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... whole generation of mortal combat , Catholicism and Protestantism stood face to face , bleed- ing and breathless , yet mutually defiant and irreconcile- able . Germany was half - depopulated . Once flourishing cities were ruined , and ...
... whole generation of mortal combat , Catholicism and Protestantism stood face to face , bleed- ing and breathless , yet mutually defiant and irreconcile- able . Germany was half - depopulated . Once flourishing cities were ruined , and ...
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... instructive . Quakerism is an off - shoot from the great Christian trunk , and a biological study of this one minor branch may aid our efforts to understand the whole tree . CHAPTER II . scene . THE CHALLENGE . ONE Sunday Introductory . 9.
... instructive . Quakerism is an off - shoot from the great Christian trunk , and a biological study of this one minor branch may aid our efforts to understand the whole tree . CHAPTER II . scene . THE CHALLENGE . ONE Sunday Introductory . 9.
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Page 2 - We have also a more sure word of prophecy, whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts; knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
Page 31 - Now was I come up in Spirit through the flaming sword, into the paradise of God. All things were new; and all the creation gave another smell unto me than before, beyond what words can utter.
Page 341 - He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
Page 181 - ... only a declaration of the fountain, and not the fountain itself, therefore they are not to be esteemed the principal ground of all truth and knowledge, nor yet the adequate primary rule of faith and manners.
Page 41 - I told them I knew from whence all wars arose, even from the lust, according to James's doctrine; and that I lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars.
Page 180 - Moreover, these divine inward revelations, which we make absolutely necessary for the building up of true faith, neither do nor can ever contradict the outward testimony of the Scriptures, or right and sound reason. Yet from hence it will not follow that these divine revelations are to be subjected to the examination, either of the outward testimony of the Scriptures...
Page 53 - He is not a Jew that is one outward; neither is that circumcision which is outward: but he is a Jew that is one inward; and that is circumcision which is of the heart.
Page 191 - ... touchstone : for this divine revelation, and inward illumination, is that which is evident and clear of itself, forcing, by its own evidence and clearness, the well-disposed understanding to assent, irresistibly moving the same thereunto...
Page 91 - As I went thus crying through the streets, there seemed to me to be a channel of blood running down the streets, and the market-place appeared like a pool of blood. When I had declared what was upon me, and felt myself clear, I went out of the town in peace; and returning to the shepherds gave them some money, and took my shoes of them again. But the fire of the Lord was so...
Page 29 - When all my hopes in them and in all men were gone, so that I had nothing outwardly to help me, nor could I tell what to do ; then, O ! then I heard a voice which said, ' There is one, even Christ Jesus, that can speak to thy condition ;' and when I heard it, my heart did leap for joy.