The Select Works of William Penn....J.Phillips, 1782 |
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... better ftar , an higher principle , no fooner came to years of difcretion , than the impiety of Egypt , and the oppreffions of his brethren there , grew a bur- then too heavy for him to bear . Aud though fo wife and good a man could not ...
... better ftar , an higher principle , no fooner came to years of difcretion , than the impiety of Egypt , and the oppreffions of his brethren there , grew a bur- then too heavy for him to bear . Aud though fo wife and good a man could not ...
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... better enable me ; and there is time enough . Thus felfish , fearful man . But deliberating is ever worft ; for the foul lofes in parly the manifeftation brings power with it . Never did God convince people , but , upon fubmiffion , he ...
... better enable me ; and there is time enough . Thus felfish , fearful man . But deliberating is ever worft ; for the foul lofes in parly the manifeftation brings power with it . Never did God convince people , but , upon fubmiffion , he ...
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... better of it , for they use the world without rebuke , because they do not abuse it . They fee and bless the hand that feeds , and cloaths , and preferves them . And as by beholding him in all his gifts , they do not adore them , but ...
... better of it , for they use the world without rebuke , because they do not abuse it . They fee and bless the hand that feeds , and cloaths , and preferves them . And as by beholding him in all his gifts , they do not adore them , but ...
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... better in it , and excites their endeavours to mend it : not hide their candle under a bushel , but fet it upon a table , in a candlestick . ' Befides , it is a self- ifh invention ; and that can never be the way of taking up the cross ...
... better in it , and excites their endeavours to mend it : not hide their candle under a bushel , but fet it upon a table , in a candlestick . ' Befides , it is a self- ifh invention ; and that can never be the way of taking up the cross ...
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... better to be fure . For divine pleasures are found in a free folitude . C HOA P. VỊ . § . 1. But men of more refined belief and practice are yet concerned in this unlawful felf about religion . § . 2. It is the rife of the performance ...
... better to be fure . For divine pleasures are found in a free folitude . C HOA P. VỊ . § . 1. But men of more refined belief and practice are yet concerned in this unlawful felf about religion . § . 2. It is the rife of the performance ...
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Page 116 - Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Page 382 - God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. But ye have not so learned Christ; if so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus...
Page 297 - They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
Page 62 - If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me: But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer. Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me.
Page 181 - Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Page 180 - Whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible ; even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of GOD of great price.
Page 45 - Lord, all his works in all places of his dominion : bless the Lord, O my soul. CIV. BLESS the Lord, O my soul : O Lord my God, thou art very great ; thou art clothed with honour and majesty. Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain : Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters : who maketh the clouds his chariot ; who walketh upon the wings of the wind...
Page 61 - Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.
Page 104 - For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: that all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.
Page 418 - Again, ye have heard that it was said to them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths: but I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by the heaven, for it is the throne of God; nor by the earth, for it is the footstool of his feet; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.