Biographical Memoirs: Being a Record of the Christian Lives, Experiences, and Deaths of Members of the Religious Society of Friends, from Its Rise, to 1653, Volumen1W. and F.G. Cash, 1854 - 255 páginas |
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... glimpses of the beauty and simplicity of the truth were but partial ; when their hearts were still in measure unchanged , and they did not therefore fully receive the things of the Spirit of God ; when these things were fool- ishness.
... glimpses of the beauty and simplicity of the truth were but partial ; when their hearts were still in measure unchanged , and they did not therefore fully receive the things of the Spirit of God ; when these things were fool- ishness.
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... things were fool- ishness unto them , because they are spiritually discerned . some This doubtless is also the experience of at this day ; who , though they may even have possessed the advantages conferred by a guarded religious ...
... things were fool- ishness unto them , because they are spiritually discerned . some This doubtless is also the experience of at this day ; who , though they may even have possessed the advantages conferred by a guarded religious ...
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... things of this life ; no assimila- tion to the children of this world , either in conversation or in conduct : but our treasure being in heaven , our hearts would be there also , and our life would be hid with Christ in God . Faithful ...
... things of this life ; no assimila- tion to the children of this world , either in conversation or in conduct : but our treasure being in heaven , our hearts would be there also , and our life would be hid with Christ in God . Faithful ...
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... things which is the Head , even Christ Jesus . Though in the reading of the following Memoirs , the grounds upon which Friends have maintained their Christian testimonies , now for upwards of two centuries , may become more or less ...
... things which is the Head , even Christ Jesus . Though in the reading of the following Memoirs , the grounds upon which Friends have maintained their Christian testimonies , now for upwards of two centuries , may become more or less ...
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... things ; but all was of no avail ; and becoming enraged , they cast him into the dungeon among felons ; thirty of whom were confined in that most noisome place , without a bed to lie upon . There he was kept for nearly half - a - year ...
... things ; but all was of no avail ; and becoming enraged , they cast him into the dungeon among felons ; thirty of whom were confined in that most noisome place , without a bed to lie upon . There he was kept for nearly half - a - year ...
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Página 229 - And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees : therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire.
Página 62 - In God alone it can rejoice, though none else regard it, or can own its life.
Página 62 - ... any wrong, but delights to endure all things, in hope to enjoy its own in the end: its hope is to outlive all wrath and contention, and to weary out all exaltation and cruelty, or whatever is of a nature contrary to itself. It sees to the end of all temptations. As it bears no evil in itself, so it conceives none in thought to any other.
Página 137 - For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Página 4 - My desires after the Lord grew stronger, and zeal in the pure knowledge of God, and of Christ alone, without the help of any man, book, or writing. For though I read the Scriptures that...
Página 10 - Many more words I had with him; but people coming in, I drew a little back. As I was turning, he caught me by the hand, and with tears in his eyes said, "Come again to my house; for if thou and I were but an hour of a day together, we should be nearer one to the other"; adding that he wished me no more ill than he did to his own soul.
Página 62 - There is a spirit which I feel, that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things, in hope to enjoy its own in the end : its hope is to outlive all wrath and contention, and to weary out all exaltation and cruelty, or whatever is of a nature contrary to itself.
Página 57 - Night, as a wandering bird fit for a prey. And if the Lord of all my mercies had not rescued me, I had perished ; for I was as one appointed to death and destruction, and there was none to deliver me.
Página 82 - ... my crown for ever and ever ! Therefore, you that are left behind, fear not, nor be discouraged, but go on in the name and power of the Lord ; and bear a faithful and living testimony for him in your day. And the Lord will prosper his work in your hand, and cause his Truth to flourish and spread abroad. For it shall have the victory, and no weapon formed against it shall prosper. The Lord hath determined, it shall possess the gates of its enemies ; and the glory and the light thereof shall shine...
Página 4 - And when all my hopes in them and in all men were gone, so that I had nothing outwardly to help me, nor could tell what to do, then, Oh 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.