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... cause to retract what I have advan- ced , in my history of the rise and progress of friends in Ireland , against the Pope , as the grand antichrist and great corrupter of Chris- tianity ; and in tracing the steps and grada- tions of the ...
... cause to retract what I have advan- ced , in my history of the rise and progress of friends in Ireland , against the Pope , as the grand antichrist and great corrupter of Chris- tianity ; and in tracing the steps and grada- tions of the ...
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... cause of Christi- anity . Bad men , under the Christian name , may profess belief in Christ , and his doctrine ; but I profess to thee , I do not think they real- ly believe in them ; but that unbelief is , in a great measure , the true ...
... cause of Christi- anity . Bad men , under the Christian name , may profess belief in Christ , and his doctrine ; but I profess to thee , I do not think they real- ly believe in them ; but that unbelief is , in a great measure , the true ...
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... cause on earth : be- ing loosened from every worldly attachment how specious soever ; that we may be ready to enter the chamber . LETTER XI . 10th Mo. 6th , 1763 . AS to our religious state in this place , as a society , great is the ...
... cause on earth : be- ing loosened from every worldly attachment how specious soever ; that we may be ready to enter the chamber . LETTER XI . 10th Mo. 6th , 1763 . AS to our religious state in this place , as a society , great is the ...
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... causes them to inherit substance ; it teaches access in heart to God , whose attributes can- not be defined fully , but experience teaches them ; supplying their wants , supporting their steps , opening their understanding into those ...
... causes them to inherit substance ; it teaches access in heart to God , whose attributes can- not be defined fully , but experience teaches them ; supplying their wants , supporting their steps , opening their understanding into those ...
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... cause : the instrument is in some sort over- looked , though it is in sincerity acknowledged as the bounty of heaven in the dispensation of his Providence ; yet the acknowledgment does not terminate in the means or instrument , but ...
... cause : the instrument is in some sort over- looked , though it is in sincerity acknowledged as the bounty of heaven in the dispensation of his Providence ; yet the acknowledgment does not terminate in the means or instrument , but ...
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Page 178 - And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient...
Page 59 - Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed," these irregular and prodigious vagaries seem to bespeak a decay, and forebode, perhaps, not a very distant dissolution.
Page 133 - Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect.
Page 142 - For even hereunto were ye called : because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps : who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth : who, when he was reviled, reviled not again ; when he suffered he threatened not ; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously...
Page 237 - One thing have I desired of the Lord, which I will require, even that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the fair beauty of the Lord, and to visit his temple. For in the time of trouble he...
Page 14 - Many shall come from the east and west, and sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven...
Page 243 - Create in me a clean heart, and renew a right spirit within me...
Page 68 - If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan...
Page 60 - And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
Page 158 - The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.