Friends Library: History of the life of Thomas EllwoodWilliam Allen Printed at the Schools of Industry and sold by Longman and Company, 1836 |
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... father's family , for the truth's sake and how the Lord preserved him in that time , under the various exercises , which he passed through for truth's testimony ; which for Christ's sake he was conscientiously concerned to stand in ...
... father's family , for the truth's sake and how the Lord preserved him in that time , under the various exercises , which he passed through for truth's testimony ; which for Christ's sake he was conscientiously concerned to stand in ...
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... Father of our Lord Jesus Christ , that he would be graciously pleas- ed , in pity and compassion to his poor people to raise up , fit and furnish more faithful servants for his work and service , and make them zeal- ous for his name and ...
... Father of our Lord Jesus Christ , that he would be graciously pleas- ed , in pity and compassion to his poor people to raise up , fit and furnish more faithful servants for his work and service , and make them zeal- ous for his name and ...
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... father's name was Walter Ellwood , and my mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Potman ; both well descended ; but of declining families , so that what my father possessed ( which was a pretty estate in lands , and more , as I have heard ...
... father's name was Walter Ellwood , and my mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Potman ; both well descended ; but of declining families , so that what my father possessed ( which was a pretty estate in lands , and more , as I have heard ...
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... father having , so soon as the Republican Go- vernment began to settle , accepted the office of a justice of the peace ( which was no way bene- ficial , but merely honorary , and every way expensive ) and put himself into a port , and ...
... father having , so soon as the Republican Go- vernment began to settle , accepted the office of a justice of the peace ( which was no way bene- ficial , but merely honorary , and every way expensive ) and put himself into a port , and ...
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... ( though betwixt him and my father there was not then so good an under- standing as might have been wished ) had I not been , in a little time after , called into the ser- vice of the best and highest Lord and thereby lost THOMAS ELLWOOD .
... ( though betwixt him and my father there was not then so good an under- standing as might have been wished ) had I not been , in a little time after , called into the ser- vice of the best and highest Lord and thereby lost THOMAS ELLWOOD .
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Page 10 - By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts : and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
Page 324 - They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us : but tiiey went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.