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vain traditions , any more than they can comply with her corrupt fashions and
customs in their conversation . The case being thus , from an apostate she
becomes a persecutor . It is not enough that she herself declines from ancient
purity ...
vain traditions , any more than they can comply with her corrupt fashions and
customs in their conversation . The case being thus , from an apostate she
becomes a persecutor . It is not enough that she herself declines from ancient
purity ...
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... he must be sanctified ; and where sin lives , there it muft die : it must be
crucified . Custom in evil hath made it natural to men to do evil ; and as the soul
rules the body , so this corrupt nature sways the whole man : but still , it is all from
within .
... he must be sanctified ; and where sin lives , there it muft die : it must be
crucified . Custom in evil hath made it natural to men to do evil ; and as the soul
rules the body , so this corrupt nature sways the whole man : but still , it is all from
within .
Page 90
6 . Reproach could not move then from that sense and practice accordingly . $ . 7
. They do it not to make sects , or for distinction . § . 8 . Nor yet to countenance
formality , but passively let drop vain customs , and so are negative to forms . $ . 9
.
6 . Reproach could not move then from that sense and practice accordingly . $ . 7
. They do it not to make sects , or for distinction . § . 8 . Nor yet to countenance
formality , but passively let drop vain customs , and so are negative to forms . $ . 9
.
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And here give me leave to ser down the reafons more particularly , why I , and the
people with whom I walk in religious society , have declined as vain and foolish ,
several worldly customs and fashions of respect , much in request at this time ...
And here give me leave to ser down the reafons more particularly , why I , and the
people with whom I walk in religious society , have declined as vain and foolish ,
several worldly customs and fashions of respect , much in request at this time ...
Page 96
The world is so set upon the ceremonious part and outside of things , that it has
well beseemed the wisdom of God in all ages , to bring forth his dispensations
with very different appearances to their fettled customs ; thereby contradicting ...
The world is so set upon the ceremonious part and outside of things , that it has
well beseemed the wisdom of God in all ages , to bring forth his dispensations
with very different appearances to their fettled customs ; thereby contradicting ...
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| Title | The Select Works of William Penn.... Volume 2 of The Select Works of William Penn, William Penn |
| Author | William Penn |
| Editor | John Fothergill |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | J.Phillips, 1782 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 23 Nov 2005 |
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