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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... hand , as a token of their speaking the truth . He who gave his hand deceitfully was accounted more detest- able than if he had sworn . The Scythians , in their conference with Alexander the Great , addressed him thus : " Think not that ...
... hand , as a token of their speaking the truth . He who gave his hand deceitfully was accounted more detest- able than if he had sworn . The Scythians , in their conference with Alexander the Great , addressed him thus : " Think not that ...
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... hand , who deliberately engage in the wars and fightings of the world , it is a proof that their lusts are not yet subjugated ; or that , though they may be nominal , they are not yet arrived at the stature of true or of full - grown ...
... hand , who deliberately engage in the wars and fightings of the world , it is a proof that their lusts are not yet subjugated ; or that , though they may be nominal , they are not yet arrived at the stature of true or of full - grown ...
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... hand , to be content with their wages . To this the Quakers reply , that John told them also " to do violence to no man . " But even if he had not said this , 99 * Luke iii . 14 . they they apprehend that nothing could be de- duced from ...
... hand , to be content with their wages . To this the Quakers reply , that John told them also " to do violence to no man . " But even if he had not said this , 99 * Luke iii . 14 . they they apprehend that nothing could be de- duced from ...
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... hands . Tatian , who was the disciple of Justin , in his Oration to the Greeks , speaks precisely in the same terms on the same subject . From the different expressions of Clemens of Alexandria , a cotemporary of the latter , we collect ...
... hands . Tatian , who was the disciple of Justin , in his Oration to the Greeks , speaks precisely in the same terms on the same subject . From the different expressions of Clemens of Alexandria , a cotemporary of the latter , we collect ...
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... hand , that they declined the military profession , as one in which it was not lawful for them to engage . The first species of evidence which I shall produce to this point may be found in the following facts , which reach from the year ...
... hand , that they declined the military profession , as one in which it was not lawful for them to engage . The first species of evidence which I shall produce to this point may be found in the following facts , which reach from the year ...
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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.