A Portraiture of Quakerism: As Taken from a View of the Moral Education, Discipline, Peculiar Customs, Religious Principles, Political and Civil Oeconomy and Character of the Society of Friends, Volume 3R. Taylor, 1806 |
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... Hence , Hesiod makes the God of Oaths the son of Eris or Conten- tion . This account differs but little from that of Polybius , who says that the use of oaths in judgment was rare among the an- tients , but that , as perfidy grew ...
... Hence , Hesiod makes the God of Oaths the son of Eris or Conten- tion . This account differs but little from that of Polybius , who says that the use of oaths in judgment was rare among the an- tients , but that , as perfidy grew ...
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... Hence , the Quakers consider the common admi- nistration of oaths to have a tendency that is injurious to the moral interest of men . This notion relative to the bad tendency of oaths the Quakers state to have prevailed even in the ...
... Hence , the Quakers consider the common admi- nistration of oaths to have a tendency that is injurious to the moral interest of men . This notion relative to the bad tendency of oaths the Quakers state to have prevailed even in the ...
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... Hence there is no such character as that of a Quaker - soldier . A Quaker is always able to avoid the regular army , because the circumstance of entering into it is generally a matter of choice , But where he has no such choice , as is ...
... Hence there is no such character as that of a Quaker - soldier . A Quaker is always able to avoid the regular army , because the circumstance of entering into it is generally a matter of choice , But where he has no such choice , as is ...
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... hence , even of your lusts that war in your members * ? " But if wars come from the lusts of men , then the Quakers say that those who have subdued their lusts can no longer engage in them ; or , in other words , that true Christians ...
... hence , even of your lusts that war in your members * ? " But if wars come from the lusts of men , then the Quakers say that those who have subdued their lusts can no longer engage in them ; or , in other words , that true Christians ...
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... Hence Jesus Christ said of him , that " he who was least in the kingdom of heaven was greater than he . " The second argument , brought against the Quakers on this occasion , is of a similar nature with the former . It is said , that if ...
... Hence Jesus Christ said of him , that " he who was least in the kingdom of heaven was greater than he . " The second argument , brought against the Quakers on this occasion , is of a similar nature with the former . It is said , that if ...
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Page 28 - For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ...
Page 86 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Page 18 - But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne; nor by the earth; for it is his footstool : neither by Jerusalem ; for it is the city of the great King. Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black. But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
Page 18 - Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths : but I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne: nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King. Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.
Page 18 - Lord thine oaths; but I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven, for it is God's throne; nor by the earth, for it is his footstool; neither by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black. But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay; for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
Page 27 - Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy: but I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you...
Page 117 - Then said he unto them, But now he that hath a purse let him take it, and likewise his scrip : and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one.
Page 341 - ... train up a child in the way he should go, that when he is old he will not depart from it.
Page 375 - This person, having filled a public station in the former times, lived now a private and retired life in London, and having wholly lost his sight, kept always a man to read to him, which usually was the son of some gentleman of his acquaintance, whom in kindness he took to improve in his learning.
Page 33 - Put up again thy sword into his place : for all they that take the sword shall perish by the sword.