Theologia Germanica: Which Setteth Forth Many Fair Lineaments of Divine Truth, and Saith Very Lofty and Lovely Things Touching a Perfect LifeLongman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1854 - 205 pages |
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Page ii - Thou seemest human and divine, The highest, holiest manhood, thou : Our wills are ours, we know not how ; Our wills are ours, to make them thine.
Page 47 - Except a man be born again, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God,
Page vi - To those, lastly, who cannot help seeing that the doctrine of Christ in every man, as the Indwelling Word of God, The Light who lights every one who comes into the world, is no peculiar tenet of the Quakers, but one which runs through the whole of the Old and New Testaments, and without which they would both be unintelligible, just as the same doctrine runs through the whole history of the Early Church for the first two centuries, and is the only explanation of them...
Page 15 - ... another, according as the Eternal Good manifesteth itself and worketh more in one than in another. Now that creature in which the Eternal Good most manifesteth itself, shineth forth, worketh, is most known and loved, is the best, and that wherein the Eternal Good is least manifested is the least Good of all creatures. Therefore when we have to do with the creatures, and hold converse with them, and take note of their diverse qualities, the best creatures must always be the dearest to us, and...
Page 115 - But what then is there which is contrary to God and hateful to Him? Nothing but Sin. But what is Sin? Mark this: Sin is nothing else than that the creature willeth otherwise than God willeth, and contrary to Him. Each of us may see this in himself; for he who willeth otherwise than I, or whose will is contrary to mine, is my foe; but he who willeth the same as I, is my friend, and I love him. It is even so with God: and that...
Page 60 - OW, since the life of Christ is every way most bitter to nature and the Self and the Me (for in the true life of Christ, the Self and the Me and nature must be forsaken and lost, and die altogether), therefore, in each of us, nature hath a horror of it...
Page 58 - Whofoever will come after me, let him deny himfelf, and take up his crofs, and follow me.
Page ii - Flow through our deeds and make them pure, That we may lift from out of dust A voice as unto him that hears, A cry above the conquered years To one that with us works, and trust. With faith that comes of self-control. The truths that never can be proved Until we close with all we loved, And all we flow from, soul in soul.
Page 6 - THE SCRIPTURE and the Faith and the Truth say, Sin is nought else, but that the creature turneth away from the unchangeable Good and betaketh itself to the changeable; that is to say, that it turneth away from the Perfect, to "that which is in part" and imperfect, and most often to itself.
Page 46 - Jefus : that ye put off, concerning the former converfation, the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lufts ; and be renewed in the fpirit of your mind ; and that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteoufnefs and true holinefs.