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, Volumen3R. Taylor, 1806 |
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... never to resist the governors by violence , on this or any other account . THE Quakers hold four principles , which I shall distinguish by the name of Great Tenets . These are considered as arising out of the implied or positive ...
... never to resist the governors by violence , on this or any other account . THE Quakers hold four principles , which I shall distinguish by the name of Great Tenets . These are considered as arising out of the implied or positive ...
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... never fight , there would be no need of armies . As they would then consider their fellow - creatures as brethren , they would relieve them as such , and there wuold would be no occasion of laws for the poor . 4 GREAT TENETS .
... never fight , there would be no need of armies . As they would then consider their fellow - creatures as brethren , they would relieve them as such , and there wuold would be no occasion of laws for the poor . 4 GREAT TENETS .
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... Never swear ; but let thy word be Yes or No. " So religious was Hercules , says Plu- tarch , that he never swore but once . Clinias , a Greek philosopher , and a scholar of Pytha- goras , is said to have dreaded an oath so much , that ...
... Never swear ; but let thy word be Yes or No. " So religious was Hercules , says Plu- tarch , that he never swore but once . Clinias , a Greek philosopher , and a scholar of Pytha- goras , is said to have dreaded an oath so much , that ...
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... never have been induced or compelled by any earthly consideration or power to have engaged in the wars of the world . They are aware that his mission , which it became him to fulfil , and which engrossed all his time , would not have ...
... never have been induced or compelled by any earthly consideration or power to have engaged in the wars of the world . They are aware that his mission , which it became him to fulfil , and which engrossed all his time , would not have ...
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... never admitted into the New . He belonged to the system which required an eye for an eye , and a tooth for a tooth ; but not to that which required no resist- ance to evil , and which insisted upon the love of enemies as well as friends ...
... never admitted into the New . He belonged to the system which required an eye for an eye , and a tooth for a tooth ; but not to that which required no resist- ance to evil , and which insisted upon the love of enemies as well as friends ...
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Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 341 - ... train up a child in the way he should go, that when he is old he will not depart from it.
Página 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.
Página 33 - Put up again thy sword into his place : for all they that take the sword shall perish by the sword.