The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress of the Christian People Called Quakers: Intermixed with Several Remarkable Occurrences, Volume 1Baker & Crane, 1844 - Society of Friends |
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... Thou O Lord , alone knowest the right times and seasons to open the eyes of the people , and to make them capable of thy truth ! If we look to the first beginnings , to go back no further than John Huss , we shall find , that though in ...
... Thou O Lord , alone knowest the right times and seasons to open the eyes of the people , and to make them capable of thy truth ! If we look to the first beginnings , to go back no further than John Huss , we shall find , that though in ...
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... Thou seest how young people go together into vanity , and old people into the earth ; therefore thou must forsake all , both young and old , and be as a stranger to them . ' This , which he took to be a divine admonition , made such a ...
... Thou seest how young people go together into vanity , and old people into the earth ; therefore thou must forsake all , both young and old , and be as a stranger to them . ' This , which he took to be a divine admonition , made such a ...
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Intermixed with Several Remarkable Occurrences William Sewel. に tab my God , why hast thou forsaken me ; ' — and why he said , ' If it be possi- ble , let this cup pass from me ; yet not my will but thine be done . ' To this George ...
Intermixed with Several Remarkable Occurrences William Sewel. に tab my God , why hast thou forsaken me ; ' — and why he said , ' If it be possi- ble , let this cup pass from me ; yet not my will but thine be done . ' To this George ...
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... thou call this place ( the steeple - house ) a church ? Or dost thou call this mixed . multitude a church ? But the priest not answering to this , asked , what a church was : and G. Fox told him , ' The church was the pillar and ground ...
... thou call this place ( the steeple - house ) a church ? Or dost thou call this mixed . multitude a church ? But the priest not answering to this , asked , what a church was : and G. Fox told him , ' The church was the pillar and ground ...
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... Thou and Thee every man and woman without distinction , and not to bid people ' Good Morrow ' or ' Good Evening ' ; neither might he bow or scrape with his leg to any one . This was such an unusual thing with people , that it made many ...
... Thou and Thee every man and woman without distinction , and not to bid people ' Good Morrow ' or ' Good Evening ' ; neither might he bow or scrape with his leg to any one . This was such an unusual thing with people , that it made many ...
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Page 395 - And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
Page xvii - But be not ye called Rabbi, for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.
Page 341 - Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
Page 390 - Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire.
Page 327 - I, AB, do swear that I do from my heart abhor, detest and abjure as impious and heretical this damnable doctrine and position, that princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope or any authority of the see of Rome may be deposed or murdered by their subjects or any other whatsoever.
Page 214 - He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
Page 300 - ... a liberty to tender consciences, and that no man shall be disquieted or called in question for differences of opinion in matter of religion which do not disturb the peace of the kingdom; and that we shall be ready to consent to such an Act of Parliament as, upon mature deliberation, shall be offered to us, for the full granting that indulgence.
Page 149 - And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying : the same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which show unto us the way of salvation.
Page 327 - God and the world that our Sovereign Lord King George is lawful and rightful King of this realm and all other his Majesty's dominions and countries thereunto belonging.
Page 37 - 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.