The Society of Friends in the Nineteenth Century: A Historical View of the Successive Convulsions and Schisms Therein During that Period, Volume 1Smith, English & Company, and by the author, 1875 |
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Page 295 - But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit; for the spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him ? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the spirit of God.
Page 238 - How is the gold become dim ! how is the most fine gold changed ! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street. The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter...
Page 306 - God himself; and there can be no appeal from them to any other authority whatsoever : that they are able to make us wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus...
Page 294 - Search the Scriptures: for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
Page 90 - If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.
Page 112 - Ye men of Israel, hear these words : Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know: Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain...
Page 311 - ... the Word that was in the beginning with God, and was God, and dwelt from eternity in the bosom of the Father.
Page 296 - Lift up now thine eyes to the north and to the south, to the east and to the west, for all this is thine.
Page 158 - But his bow abode in strength, And the arms of his hands were made strong By the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (From thence is the...
Page 164 - Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints; who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name ? for thou only art holy ; for all nations shall come and worship before thee ; for thy judgments are made manifest.