A Portraiture of Quakerism,: Taken from a View of the Moral Education, Discipline, Peculiar Customs, Religious Principles, Political and Civil Œconomy, and Character, of the Society of Friends, Volume 2R. Taylor and Company, 1807 |
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... remain there in the sight of the spectators . The congrega- tion then sit in silence , as at a meeting for worship . If any one feels himself induced to speak , he delivers himself accordingly : if not , no other rite is used at this ...
... remain there in the sight of the spectators . The congrega- tion then sit in silence , as at a meeting for worship . If any one feels himself induced to speak , he delivers himself accordingly : if not , no other rite is used at this ...
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... remains of those , whom they loved in life . But the Quakers in general have not thought it right or wise to indulge such feelings . They believe that all good men , however their bodies may be separated in their subterraneous houses of ...
... remains of those , whom they loved in life . But the Quakers in general have not thought it right or wise to indulge such feelings . They believe that all good men , however their bodies may be separated in their subterraneous houses of ...
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... remain upon the principle , that an abode there , under the annual exercise of his testimony , would , in a religious point of view , add strength to his strength . But it must be observed on the other hand , that it PECULIAR CUSTOMS . 47.
... remain upon the principle , that an abode there , under the annual exercise of his testimony , would , in a religious point of view , add strength to his strength . But it must be observed on the other hand , that it PECULIAR CUSTOMS . 47.
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... remain under grievous evils , and can get rid of them merely by changing their occupation in life , and this honourably , it is in human nature to do it . And so far tithes , I believe , have had an influence in driving them into the ...
... remain under grievous evils , and can get rid of them merely by changing their occupation in life , and this honourably , it is in human nature to do it . And so far tithes , I believe , have had an influence in driving them into the ...
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... remain in any occupation , which he believes it impro- per to pursue . And I hope , if there are persons in the Society , who mix the sale of objectionable with that of the other articles of their trade , it is because they have entered ...
... remain in any occupation , which he believes it impro- per to pursue . And I hope , if there are persons in the Society , who mix the sale of objectionable with that of the other articles of their trade , it is because they have entered ...
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Page 94 - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God ; all things were made by him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Page 101 - For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God, that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
Page 285 - As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God : when shall I come and appear before God...
Page 370 - And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.
Page 357 - To the weak he became as weak, that he might gain the weak : and was made all things to all men, that he might by all means save some.
Page 297 - So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption; it is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
Page 332 - Spirit, by which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
Page 337 - God, but into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself and for the errors of the people ; the Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest...
Page 334 - Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Page 237 - And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh : and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: And on my servants and on my hand-maidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy...