Shakers: Compendium of the Origin, History, Principles, Rules and Regulations, Government, and Doctrines of the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing. With Biographies of Ann Lee, William Lee, Jas. Whittaker, J. Hocknell, J. Meacham, and Lucy WrightD. Appleton, 1859 - 189 pages |
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Page 106 - And God said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness. So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them.
Page 62 - Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you.
Page 62 - Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; and whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Page 57 - Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, No man taketh it from me; but I lay it down of myself.
Page 100 - For, for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
Page 151 - What are these which are arrayed in white robes ? and whence came they? And I said unto him ; Sir thou knowest. And he said to me ; These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Page 85 - God by faith; that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Page 86 - The apocalyptic angel is flying with increasing celerity in the midst of heaven, " having the everlasting gospel to preach to them that dwell upon the earth...
Page 130 - Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house; So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty : for he is thy Lord ; and worship thou him.
Page 111 - Testament ; all that the prophets and " holy men of old" wrote " as they were moved by the Holy Ghost...