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... given on this important subject are excellent . It would evince an unreasonable jealousy , and hypercritical captiousness , to find any very material fault with them . But this is not the present question . The existence of these ...
... given on this important subject are excellent . It would evince an unreasonable jealousy , and hypercritical captiousness , to find any very material fault with them . But this is not the present question . The existence of these ...
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... given them publicity : —whereas the opinions , being evidently on momentous and fundamental points , were either ( laying aside the question of their truth or falsehood ) consistent with sound Quakerism , or they were not ; -if they ...
... given them publicity : —whereas the opinions , being evidently on momentous and fundamental points , were either ( laying aside the question of their truth or falsehood ) consistent with sound Quakerism , or they were not ; -if they ...
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... given to " patriarchs , prophets , and apostles , " he says : " Moreover , these divine inward revelations , " which we make absolutely necessary for the build- " ing up of true faith , neither do nor ever can con- " tradict the outward ...
... given to " patriarchs , prophets , and apostles , " he says : " Moreover , these divine inward revelations , " which we make absolutely necessary for the build- " ing up of true faith , neither do nor ever can con- " tradict the outward ...
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... only to have been " given by inspiration of God , " but to contain a complete revelation of the divine mind and will , and to be the only source of authentic and saving instruction in divine things , I then value them ac- 62.
... only to have been " given by inspiration of God , " but to contain a complete revelation of the divine mind and will , and to be the only source of authentic and saving instruction in divine things , I then value them ac- 62.
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... given us some little infor- mation , what the passages were to which he refers ; that so we might have judged between him and our translators , whom he so unceremoniously criminates . It is not impossible , that we might have thought ...
... given us some little infor- mation , what the passages were to which he refers ; that so we might have judged between him and our translators , whom he so unceremoniously criminates . It is not impossible , that we might have thought ...
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Page 201 - Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
Page 149 - Woe unto thee, Chorazin ! woe unto thee, Bethsaida ! for if the mighty works which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon. they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
Page 100 - Of His own will begat He us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.
Page 257 - He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
Page 243 - But as it is written, To whom he was not spoken of, they shall see : and they that have not heard shall understand.
Page 60 - Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.
Page 302 - O send out thy light and thy truth : let them lead me ; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
Page 64 - THAT which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled of the word of life ; (for the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and show unto you that eternal life which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us...
Page 160 - In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Page 148 - And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see ; and that they which see might be made blind.