Brief Account of Robert Barclay ...

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Tract association of Friends, 1889 - 24 pages

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Page 3 - I myself, in part, am a true witness, who not by strength of arguments, or by a particular disquisition of each doctrine, and convincement of my understanding thereby, came to receive and bear witness of the truth, but by being secretly reached by this life; for when I came into the silent assemblies of God's people, I felt a secret power among them, which touched my heart, and as I gave way unto it, I found the evil weakening in me, and the good raised up, and so I became thus knit and united unto...
Page 16 - An apology for the true Christian divinity as the same is held forth and preached by the people called in scorn Quakers ; being a full explanation and vindication of their principles and doctrines, by many arguments deduced from scripture and right reason, and the testimonies of famous authors both ancient and modern, with a full answer to the strongest objections usually made against them ; presented to the king : written and published in Latin for the information of strangers, by Robert Barclay;...
Page 16 - The Anarchy of the Ranters, and other Libertines, the Hierarchy of the Romanists, and other pretended Churches, equally refused and refuted, in a twofold Apology for the Church and people of God, called in derision Quakers.
Page 4 - I had abundant occasion to receive impressions contrary to this principle of love : seeing the straitness of several of their doctrines, as well as their practice of persecution, do abundantly declare, how opposite they are to universal love.
Page 18 - Christ ; both by bringing them to a sense of their own misery, and to be sharers in the sufferings of Christ, inwardly; and by making them partakers...
Page 5 - Many things in the natural will concur to strengthen and encourage my affection towards thee, and make thee acceptable unto me ; but that which is before all and beyond all, is, that I can say in the fear of the Lord, that I have received a charge from him to love thee...
Page 10 - It was at this meeting, that the Lord in a more eminent manner began to appear. The eternal Word showed itself a hammer at this day, yea, sharper than a two-edged sword, dividing asunder between the soul and the spirit, the joints and the marrow.
Page 2 - ... all his property, (which was very considerable,) if he would remain with him. But his father, fearing that he might become tainted with the superstitions of Popery, and in compliance with his mother's dying request, went to Paris in order to bring him home, when he was not much more than sixteen years of age. The uncle still endeavoured to prevent his return; and proposed to purchase, and give to him immediately, an estate greater than his paternal one. Robert replied, " He is my father, and...
Page 5 - The love of thy converse, the desire of thy friendship, the sympathy of thy way, and meekness of thy spirit, has often, as thou may'st have observed, occasioned me to take frequent opportunity to have the benefit of thy company; in which I can truly say, I have often been refreshed, and the life in me touched with a sweet unity, which flowed from the same in thee — tender flames of pure love have been kindled in my bosom towards thee, and praises have sprung up in me to the iJod of our salvation,...
Page 13 - The popular opinion was in favor of the Bishops ; yet the former severities of some of that order against dissenters, particularly against Friends, occasioned some reflections on them, which coming to the knowledge of the imprisoned bishops, they declared that the Quakers had belied them, by reporting that they had been the death of some.

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