On the Christian Doctrine of the Teaching of the Holy Spirit as Held by the Society of FriendsJohn D. Toy, 1839 - 15 pages |
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Page 13 - But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as |the same: his\ anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, [ye shall] abide in him.
Page 12 - Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God ; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God : for they are foolishness unto him ; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Page 12 - It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it.
Page 4 - And, though shunning some scholastic terms, they have ever held, without any mystification, the real manhood as well as the deity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ ; that the word which was in the beginning with God, and was God, was made flesh and dwelt amongst...
Page 3 - That there is one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom all things were made, who was glorified with the Father before the world began, who is God over all, blessed for ever...
Page 7 - Examine yourselves, whether ye be in " the faith, prove your ownselves ; know ye not " your ownselves, how that Jesus Christ is in you,
Page 8 - But if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwelleth in you."1 What, then, is our life but the presence of the Spirit dwelling in us ? 2.
Page 12 - And then he bringeth in the comparison, in the verses above-mentioned, very apt, and answerable to our purpose and doctrine, that "as the things of a man are only known by the spirit of man, so the things of God are only known by the Spirit of God ; " that is, that as nothing below the spirit of man (as the spirit of brutes, or any other creatures) can properly reach unto or comprehend the things of a man, as being of a nobler and higher nature, so neither can the spirit of man, or the natural man...
Page 7 - If Christ be in you, the body is dead, because of sin ; but the Spirit of life, because of righteousness.
Page 11 - I give you to understand that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed ; and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the Holy Ghost."—1 Cor.