A History of the Friends in AmericaWinston, 1905 - 246 Seiten |
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Allen Clapp Thomas, Richard Henry Thomas. 28358 139 Copyright 1894 BY THE CHRIstian Literature Company . Revised Edition , Copyright 1905 BY THE JOHN C. WINSTON COMPANY . PREFACE TO FOURTH EDITION . THE fact that the present.
Allen Clapp Thomas, Richard Henry Thomas. 28358 139 Copyright 1894 BY THE CHRIstian Literature Company . Revised Edition , Copyright 1905 BY THE JOHN C. WINSTON COMPANY . PREFACE TO FOURTH EDITION . THE fact that the present.
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Allen Clapp Thomas, Richard Henry Thomas. PREFACE TO FOURTH EDITION . THE fact that the present edition has been printed from new type has afforded the oppor- tunity to make many changes in the text , almost all of which , however , have ...
Allen Clapp Thomas, Richard Henry Thomas. PREFACE TO FOURTH EDITION . THE fact that the present edition has been printed from new type has afforded the oppor- tunity to make many changes in the text , almost all of which , however , have ...
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... fact that the first object of its appointment was to assist members who were suffering for their principles , was called for many years the " Meeting for Suf- ferings , " a name still retained in a few cases . 3 In some cases these meet ...
... fact that the first object of its appointment was to assist members who were suffering for their principles , was called for many years the " Meeting for Suf- ferings , " a name still retained in a few cases . 3 In some cases these meet ...
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... fact , and wherever oppor- tunity offered set up meetings . He tells us " that the truth sprang up first ( to us , as to be a people to the Lord ) in Leicestershire in 1644. " This probably refers to his own personal experi- ence . He ...
... fact , and wherever oppor- tunity offered set up meetings . He tells us " that the truth sprang up first ( to us , as to be a people to the Lord ) in Leicestershire in 1644. " This probably refers to his own personal experi- ence . He ...
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... fact that little or no record remains of many of these visits does not show that they were made in vain . It is clear that for some time no formulated statement of doctrine was made . " The purport of their doctrine and ministry ...
... fact that little or no record remains of many of these visits does not show that they were made in vain . It is clear that for some time no formulated statement of doctrine was made . " The purport of their doctrine and ministry ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
adopted American Friends appointed Baltimore Yearly Meeting Barclay Bible Bowden Burnyeat called Christian church colony committee conference Constitution and Discipline delegates disowned doctrines document early Friends Edmundson elders Elias Hicks England Yearly Meeting Epistles established faith Five-Years Meeting Foreign Missions Foster's Report Fox's Journal Friends in America George Fox Gurney held Hicksites History Indiana Yearly Meeting Indians Janney Jersey Jesus Christ Joseph John Gurney labor London Yearly Meeting Margaret Fell Maryland matters Meeting of Friends meetings for discipline meetings for worship membership ment ministers Monthly Meeting North Carolina Ohio organization Orthodox body Orthodox Yearly Meetings peace Penn's Pennsylvania Phila Philadelphia Yearly Meeting position practice preaching Quakers quarterly meetings Records religious says Scriptures sent separation Sewel slaves Society of Friends Spirit statement Stephen Grellet suffer Swarthmoor Hall teaching Thomas tion truth Virginia Yearly Meeting visited Wilburite William Penn women Yearly Meeting Orthodox York Yearly Meeting
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 30 - Now was I come up in spirit through the flaming sword into the paradise of God. All things were new, and all the creation gave another smell unto me than before, beyond what words can utter.
Seite 90 - I choose to solve the controversy with this small distinction, and it belongs to all three: any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion.
Seite 30 - And when all my hopes in them and in all men were gone, so that I had nothing outwardly to help me, nor could tell what to do; then, Oh ! then I heard a voice which said, ' There is one, even Christ Jesus, that can speak to thy condition.
Seite 237 - An apology for the true Christian divinity as the same is held forth and preached by the people called in scorn Quakers...
Seite 113 - A Paper being here presented by some German Friends Concerning the Lawfulness and Unlawfulness of Buying and keeping Negroes, It was adjudged not to be so proper for this Meeting to give a Positive Judgment in the Case, It having so General a Relation to many other Parts, and therefore at present they forbear It.
Seite 29 - At another time, as I was walking in a field on a First-day morning, the Lord opened unto me, • that being bred at Oxford or Cambridge was not enough to fit and qualify men to be ministers of Christ :' and I wondered at it, because it was the common belief of people.
Seite 30 - I saw the infinite love of God. I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death; but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness. In that also I saw the infinite love of God, and I had great openings.
Seite 84 - Wasse ; there we lay a foundation for after ages to understand their liberty as men and Christians, that they may not be brought in bondage, but by their own consent ; for we put the power in the people...
Seite 180 - Indian agencies being civil offices, I determined to give all the agencies to such religious denominations as had heretofore established missionaries among the Indians...
Seite 179 - From the foundation of the Government to the present, the management of the original inhabitants of this continent, the Indians, has been a subject of embarrassment and expense, and has been attended with continuous robberies, murders, and ware.