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Page vii
... characters of their respective members , which would urge us to ask with astonishment and re- gret , Why cannot we be one ? What is it that obstructs our union ? Instead of maintaining the barrier that separates us from each other , and ...
... characters of their respective members , which would urge us to ask with astonishment and re- gret , Why cannot we be one ? What is it that obstructs our union ? Instead of maintaining the barrier that separates us from each other , and ...
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... character of the system - The many excellent men connected with it , LETTER II . - Presbytery - Its leading feature - The power assumed by it - Not defensible from Acts xv . - A case of the exercise of this power -An improvement ...
... character of the system - The many excellent men connected with it , LETTER II . - Presbytery - Its leading feature - The power assumed by it - Not defensible from Acts xv . - A case of the exercise of this power -An improvement ...
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... CHARACTER OF THE SYSTEM - THE MANY EXCELLENT MEN CONNECTED WITH IT . MY DEAR FRIEND , WHILE We are daily hearing lamentations over the divisions that exist among professing Christians of different denominations , I was much pleased with ...
... CHARACTER OF THE SYSTEM - THE MANY EXCELLENT MEN CONNECTED WITH IT . MY DEAR FRIEND , WHILE We are daily hearing lamentations over the divisions that exist among professing Christians of different denominations , I was much pleased with ...
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... character . I mention the following : - " Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind , " Rom . xiv . 8. " Whatsoever is not of faith is sin , " ver . 23. " Forbearing one another in love , " 1 Cor . xiv . 26. " Let all things be ...
... character . I mention the following : - " Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind , " Rom . xiv . 8. " Whatsoever is not of faith is sin , " ver . 23. " Forbearing one another in love , " 1 Cor . xiv . 26. " Let all things be ...
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... character of the Apostolic office , it appears evident they could have no successors . They were constituted witnesses of the resurrec- tion of Christ , and in order to be so , they must have seen him after that event . That this was ...
... character of the Apostolic office , it appears evident they could have no successors . They were constituted witnesses of the resurrec- tion of Christ , and in order to be so , they must have seen him after that event . That this was ...
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Page 38 - Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves : for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
Page 18 - But be not ye called Rabbi, for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren. And call no man your father upon the earth : for one is your Father, which is in heaven. Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ.
Page 98 - Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us : — Therefore let us keep the feast...
Page 18 - But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
Page 104 - Saviour to do to others as we would that others should do to us should induce Friends who held slaves " to set them at liberty, making a Christian provision for them...
Page 15 - And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day : and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
Page 96 - But now I have' written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
Page v - Apostles after him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thou,sand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds.
Page 18 - Let nothing be done through strife or vain glory ; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Page 117 - And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also **. 3 Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.