Memoirs of the Life of Isaac PeningtonW. Phillips, 1807 - 272 pages |
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Page 170 - This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, That God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
Page 19 - I have met with the Se'ed. Underf stand that word, and thou wilt be satisfied, and * inquire no further. 1 have met with my God; ' I have met with my Saviour ; and he hath not ' been present with me without his salvation ; ' but I have felt the healings drop upon my ,
Page 182 - For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
Page 232 - The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, Nor a lawgiver from between his feet, Until Shiloh come ; And unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Page 180 - AN EXAMINATION OF THE GROUNDS OR CAUSES, WHICH ARE SAID TO INDUCE THE COURT OF BOSTON IN NEW ENGLAND TO MAKE THAT ORDER OR LAW OF BANISHMENT UPON PAIN OF DEATH AGAINST THE QUAKERS.
Page 225 - Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
Page 21 - ... the everlasting habitation, which the redeemed dwell in : and I know all these to be true, in Him that is true, and am capable of no doubt, dispute, or reasoning in my mind about them ; it abiding there, where it hath received the full assurance and satisfaction. And also I know very well and distinctly in...
Page 81 - Gaol ; he was committed by a singular mittimus, to the effect that the gaoler should keep him in safe custody " during the pleasure of the Earl of Bridgewater." This nobleman had an extreme antipathy to Isaac Penington ; and although one of the county gentlemen of high rank urged that the prisoner should be allowed to remove to a house in the town until the gaol was free from infection of the plague, his request was refused. He was thus taken from his home...
Page 263 - The first is concerning the Godhead which we own as the Scriptures express it, and as we have the sensible experimental knowledge of it, in which 'there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one.
Page 149 - Severall Fresh Inward Openings, (Concerning severall things) which the DAY will declare of what Nature they are, to which Judgment they Appeal for Justice, being contented either to stand or fall by it : and being likewise ready to kiss that condemnation, which they are likely to meet with in the mean time, from all sorts of men, whom they finde ready to deal hardly with them. Through ISAAC PENINGTON, (junior,) Esq.; * ... London, Printed for Giles Calvert.