Friends' Miscellany, Volume 4John Comly, Isaac Comly editors, 1833 |
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... mind ; but when I did otherwise , I was uneasy . I loved good men and women , especially ministers ; and had a dislike to those who were wicked . When I was between eight and nine years of age , I was put apprentice to Jonathan Wright ...
... mind ; but when I did otherwise , I was uneasy . I loved good men and women , especially ministers ; and had a dislike to those who were wicked . When I was between eight and nine years of age , I was put apprentice to Jonathan Wright ...
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... mind , that I might stand still , and hear what they were playing : for there could be no harm in that . Then , that I might go to the end of the house , and listen ; there being no harm in that . So I complied . Then it seemed as if it ...
... mind , that I might stand still , and hear what they were playing : for there could be no harm in that . Then , that I might go to the end of the house , and listen ; there being no harm in that . So I complied . Then it seemed as if it ...
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... mind retired inward , as much as possible , therein to wait upon , and to worship God , who is a spirit , in spirit and in truth . As I continued diligent in this exercise , I came more and more to experience the Lord's power to come ...
... mind retired inward , as much as possible , therein to wait upon , and to worship God , who is a spirit , in spirit and in truth . As I continued diligent in this exercise , I came more and more to experience the Lord's power to come ...
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... mind still . Death , instead of life , seem- ed to attend me . This caused a query , why it should be so ? which I could not resolve . I began to doubt and fear , that I had been mistaken in time past , with respect to my sense of ...
... mind still . Death , instead of life , seem- ed to attend me . This caused a query , why it should be so ? which I could not resolve . I began to doubt and fear , that I had been mistaken in time past , with respect to my sense of ...
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... mind . About this time , I saw , as I apprehended , that I should be under a necessity to call to my fellow- creatures , in public , to come to that Fountain , which in some measure had healed me . This brought to my remembrance how it ...
... mind . About this time , I saw , as I apprehended , that I should be under a necessity to call to my fellow- creatures , in public , to come to that Fountain , which in some measure had healed me . This brought to my remembrance how it ...
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Page 203 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it ? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes ? I beheld.
Page 202 - For the invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead...
Page 10 - For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily ; and ye are complete in him, who is the Head of all principality and power.
Page 55 - Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
Page 21 - God who is a Spirit, and must be worshipped in spirit and in truth.
Page 16 - Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. Trust ye in the LORD forever; for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength.
Page 203 - And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein : and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
Page 54 - Here is firm footing ; here is solid rock ! This can support us ; all is sea besides ; Sinks under us ; bestorms, and then devours. His hand the good man fastens on the skies, And bids earth roll, nor feels her idle whirl.
Page 11 - Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously; for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.
Page 32 - I know no man in all Arabia who can offer his kindred a more excellent thing than I now do you; I offer you happiness both in this life, and in that which is to come: God Almighty hath commanded me to call you unto him; who, therefore, among you will be assisting to me herein, and become my brother, and my vicegerent?