Letters & Observations Relating to the Controversy Respecting the Doctrines of Elias Hicks |
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... God ; otherwise why is a manifestation of the Spirit given to every man , if it is not to profit by ? and if the Scriptures are above the Spirit , and a more certain test of doctrines , why is the Spirit given , seeing it is useless ...
... God ; otherwise why is a manifestation of the Spirit given to every man , if it is not to profit by ? and if the Scriptures are above the Spirit , and a more certain test of doctrines , why is the Spirit given , seeing it is useless ...
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... God , as contained in the Scriptures . On being asked how it should be that the Spirit should in his mind directly oppose the leading doctrines of our society , founded upon Christian testimony , and upon the revelation of the Lord's ...
... God , as contained in the Scriptures . On being asked how it should be that the Spirit should in his mind directly oppose the leading doctrines of our society , founded upon Christian testimony , and upon the revelation of the Lord's ...
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... God , as contained in them , should be profitable for doctrine , & c . Then , as regards the internal evidence , he that believeth hath the witness in himself , and that the state of the true believer is one of progressive growth ; yet ...
... God , as contained in them , should be profitable for doctrine , & c . Then , as regards the internal evidence , he that believeth hath the witness in himself , and that the state of the true believer is one of progressive growth ; yet ...
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... God has appeared unto all men , yet facts daily prove to us , that even the most watch- ful find , that it is for them to accept , with humble thank- fulness , the intimations afforded , and that immediate reve- lation is not at their ...
... God has appeared unto all men , yet facts daily prove to us , that even the most watch- ful find , that it is for them to accept , with humble thank- fulness , the intimations afforded , and that immediate reve- lation is not at their ...
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... God , and in Jesus Christ whom he hath sent , proving their faith by their works . And the work of the ministry is one of the most important tests by which living faith can be proved . A. B. stated in the course of her communications ...
... God , and in Jesus Christ whom he hath sent , proving their faith by their works . And the work of the ministry is one of the most important tests by which living faith can be proved . A. B. stated in the course of her communications ...
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Page 32 - Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels ? But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
Page 32 - 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 4 - For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell; And having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
Page 32 - O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
Page 45 - Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Page 30 - And he made his grave with the wicked, And with the rich in his death ; Because he had done no violence, Neither was any deceit in his mouth.
Page 16 - The secret things belong unto the LORD our God : but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Page 30 - He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth ; he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.
Page 32 - Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself . I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
Page 31 - He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.