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... answered by this following : 66 Herford , May 2 , 1677 . This , friend , will tell you that both your letters were very acceptable , together with your wishes for my obtaining those virtues which may make me a worthy follower of our ...
... answered by this following : 66 Herford , May 2 , 1677 . This , friend , will tell you that both your letters were very acceptable , together with your wishes for my obtaining those virtues which may make me a worthy follower of our ...
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... answered with this letter : " Dear friend , " I cannot but have a tender love to those that love the Lord Jesus Christ , and to whom it is given not only to believe in him , but also to suffer for him : therefore your letter , and your ...
... answered with this letter : " Dear friend , " I cannot but have a tender love to those that love the Lord Jesus Christ , and to whom it is given not only to believe in him , but also to suffer for him : therefore your letter , and your ...
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... answer to that he had written to her from the Palatinate ; the said letter was as follo weth : The of September , 1677 . " Dear friend , " I have received your greetings , good wishes , and exhortations , with much joy , and shall fol ...
... answer to that he had written to her from the Palatinate ; the said letter was as follo weth : The of September , 1677 . " Dear friend , " I have received your greetings , good wishes , and exhortations , with much joy , and shall fol ...
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... answered William Penn ; " and it is our comfort that we owe it not to the learning of this world . " To which the pas- tor returned , " Then let not the learning of this world be used to defend that which the Spirit of God hath brought ...
... answered William Penn ; " and it is our comfort that we owe it not to the learning of this world . " To which the pas- tor returned , " Then let not the learning of this world be used to defend that which the Spirit of God hath brought ...
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... answered to the purpose , took his leave , and travelled by way of Groeninghen to Embden , where the Quakers at that time were persecuted severely with imprisonments and banishments : but I wave the relation thereof , because it hath ...
... answered to the purpose , took his leave , and travelled by way of Groeninghen to Embden , where the Quakers at that time were persecuted severely with imprisonments and banishments : but I wave the relation thereof , because it hath ...
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Page 427 - The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God ; and he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds ; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Page 185 - Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
Page 364 - The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the light, that all men through him might believe. He was not that light, but was sent to bear witness of that light.
Page 173 - I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire...
Page 321 - But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, — is therefore Christ the minister of sin ? God forbid ! 18 For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
Page 135 - For the living know that they shall die : but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward ; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
Page 442 - That was the True Light, which enlighteneth every man that cometh into the world.
Page 319 - Although my house be not so with God ; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure : for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.
Page 160 - This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
Page 58 - Son William, if you and your friends keep to your plain way of preaching, and keep to your plain way of living, you will make an end of the priests to the end of the world.