Extracts from the Writings of the Early Members of the Society of Friends, on the Divinity of Christ, the Benefits of His Coming, the Scriptures, &cHarrison and Crosfield, 1835 - 36 pages |
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Page 37 - Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is expedient for you that I go away; for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. And when he is come he will reprove the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment...
Page 24 - If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, fulfil ye my joy, that ye be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind...
Page 9 - Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
Page 37 - 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 8 - He is well pleased ; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost and born of the Virgin Mary...
Page 11 - Nevertheless, as we firmly believe it was necessary that Christ should come, that by his death and sufferings he might offer up himself a sacrifice to God for our sins, who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree; so we believe that the remission of sins which any partake of, is only in and by virtue of that most satisfactory sacrifice, and no otherwise.
Page 17 - He is the propitiation for our sins; and not for our sins only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
Page 13 - ... and accounted a redemption than the former. The first, then, is that, whereby a man, as he stands in the fall, is put into a capacity of salvation, and hath conveyed unto him, a measure of that power, virtue, spirit, life, and grace, that was in Christ Jesus, which, as the free gift of God, is able to counterbalance, overcome and root out the evil seed, wherewith we are naturally, as in the fall, leavened.
Page 32 - Spirit's leadings, that we may cover ourselves in any thing that is evil ; so we know, that as every evil contradicts the scriptures, so it doth also the Spirit in the first place, from which the scriptures came, and whose motions can never contradict one another, though they may appear sometimes to be contradictory to the blind eye of the natural man, as Paul and James seem to contradict one another.
Page 40 - For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp. " Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.