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 - Society of Friends |
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... reasons of the Quakers for their disuse of them 12 CHAP . III . · b SECT . 1. War - unlawful for Christians to fight - scrip- tural passages in support of this tenet - an- swers to these , and replies .. 25 SECT . 2. These passages ...
... reasons of the Quakers for their disuse of them 12 CHAP . III . · b SECT . 1. War - unlawful for Christians to fight - scrip- tural passages in support of this tenet - an- swers to these , and replies .. 25 SECT . 2. These passages ...
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... reasons against the payment of those of another denomination , as collected from a History of Tithes .. 129 SECT . 3. A more particular statement of these rea- sons 141 CHA- CHARACTER . CHAP . I. Character of the Quakers - iv CONTENTS .
... reasons against the payment of those of another denomination , as collected from a History of Tithes .. 129 SECT . 3. A more particular statement of these rea- sons 141 CHA- CHARACTER . CHAP . I. Character of the Quakers - iv CONTENTS .
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... a com- pliance with any law or custom to be wrong CHAP . VI . 186 Sixth is , that in political affairs they reason upon prin- ciple , and not upon consequences 199 CHAP . CHAP . VII . 206 Seventh , is independence of CONTENTS . V.
... a com- pliance with any law or custom to be wrong CHAP . VI . 186 Sixth is , that in political affairs they reason upon prin- ciple , and not upon consequences 199 CHAP . CHAP . VII . 206 Seventh , is independence of CONTENTS . V.
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... reason . Religion , they say , is a matter solely between God and man ; that is , between God and that man who worships him . This must be obvious , they conceive , because man is not accountable to man for his religious opinions ...
... reason . Religion , they say , is a matter solely between God and man ; that is , between God and that man who worships him . This must be obvious , they conceive , because man is not accountable to man for his religious opinions ...
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... times , for the exercise of their religion . CHAP- CHAPTER II . Oaths - Quakers conceive it unlawful for GREAT TENETS . 11 CHAP II Oaths-Christians are not to take Civil oaths reasons the Quakers for their disuse of them 12 · CHAP III.
... times , for the exercise of their religion . CHAP- CHAPTER II . Oaths - Quakers conceive it unlawful for GREAT TENETS . 11 CHAP II Oaths-Christians are not to take Civil oaths reasons the Quakers for their disuse of them 12 · CHAP III.
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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.