The Select Works of William Penn....J.Phillips, 1782 |
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... English birth - right . This has been often promifed to us , and we as ear- neftly have expected the performance ; but to this time we labour under the unfpeakable preffure of nafty pri- fons , and daily confifcation of our goods , to ...
... English birth - right . This has been often promifed to us , and we as ear- neftly have expected the performance ; but to this time we labour under the unfpeakable preffure of nafty pri- fons , and daily confifcation of our goods , to ...
Page iv
... English government ; and that an indulging of Diffenters in the sense defended , is not only most Christian and rational , but prudent alfo ; and the contrary ( how plaufible foever infinuated ) the most injurious to the peace , and ...
... English government ; and that an indulging of Diffenters in the sense defended , is not only most Christian and rational , but prudent alfo ; and the contrary ( how plaufible foever infinuated ) the most injurious to the peace , and ...
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... English , of Liberty of Confcience , we would be un- derstood to mean , is this ; namely , The free and un- interrupted exercife of our confciences , in that way of worship we are moft clearly perfuaded God re- quires us to ferve him in ...
... English , of Liberty of Confcience , we would be un- derstood to mean , is this ; namely , The free and un- interrupted exercife of our confciences , in that way of worship we are moft clearly perfuaded God re- quires us to ferve him in ...
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... English state , than were Anytus and Ariftophanes of old to that of Athens ; the cafe being fo nearly the fame , as they did not more bitterly envy the reputation of Socrates a- mongst the Athenians for his grave and religious lec ...
... English state , than were Anytus and Ariftophanes of old to that of Athens ; the cafe being fo nearly the fame , as they did not more bitterly envy the reputation of Socrates a- mongst the Athenians for his grave and religious lec ...
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... English families , embarked in that one concern of Liberty of Confcience . It will become him bet- ter to reflect upon his own mortality , and not forget his breath is in his noftrils , and that every action of his life the everlasting ...
... English families , embarked in that one concern of Liberty of Confcience . It will become him bet- ter to reflect upon his own mortality , and not forget his breath is in his noftrils , and that every action of his life the everlasting ...
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Page 326 - For the grave cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: The father to the children shall make known thy truth.
Page 135 - Lord hath not spoken ? when a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
Page 307 - Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer : and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
Page 131 - In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
Page 131 - I will pray the Father, and he will give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him.
Page 219 - ... pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.
Page 496 - Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust; for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
Page 166 - I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
Page 133 - As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord ; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.
Page 334 - The voice of the LORD is powerful ; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.