Four Lectures on the Rise, Progress, and Past Proceedings of the Society of Friends in Great Britain: With Brief Historical Notices of Some Preceding and Contemporary Events

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A. W. Bennett, 1865 - 152 pages
 

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Page 67 - For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Page 27 - I shall not do so, nor be so wanton." \ .When I came to eleven years of age I knew pureness and righteousness ; for. while a child I was taught how to walk to be kept pure. The Lord taught me to be faithful in all things, and to act faithfully two ways, viz., inwardly, to God, and outwardly, to man; and to keep to Yea and Nay in all things.
Page 27 - So I went away; and when I had done what business I had to do, I returned home, but did not go to bed that night, nor could I sleep, but sometimes walked up and down, and sometimes prayed and cried to the Lord, who said unto me, " Thou seest how young people go together into vanity, and old people into the earth; thou must forsake all, both young and old, and keep out of all, and be as a stranger unto all.
Page 45 - Lord's power and truth was over all, and there was no opposition. About this time did the Lord move upon the spirits of many, whom he had raised up, and sent forth to labour in his vineyard, to travel southwards, and spread themselves, in the service of the gospel...
Page 30 - He would needs give me some physic, and I was to have been let blood ; but they could not get one drop of blood from me, either in arms or head, though they endeavoured...
Page 133 - Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passivcness. 'Think you, 'mid all this mighty sum Of things for ever speaking, That nothing of itself will come, But we must still be seeking ? ' — Then ask not wherefore, here, alone, Conversing as I may, I sit upon this old grey stone, And dream my time away.
Page 123 - Foppish and fantastic ornaments are only indications of vice, not criminal in themselves. Extinguish vanity in the mind, and you naturally retrench the little superfluities of garniture and equipage. The blossoms will fall of themselves when the root that nourishes them is destroyed.
Page 66 - The heroic and persevering conduct of the Quakers in withstanding the interferences of government with the rights of conscience, by which they finally secured those peculiar privileges they so richly deserve to enjoy, entitles them to the veneration of all the friends of civil and religious freedom.
Page 83 - One, because he would not turn his back on his baptism. One, because we were mere Church of England men. And, one, because it was time enough to serve God yet.
Page 29 - After this I went to another ancient priest at Mancetter in Warwickshire, and reasoned with him about the ground of despair and temptations ; but he was ignorant of my condition : he bid me take tobacco and sing psalms. Tobacco was a thing I did not love, and psalms I was not in a state to sing; I could not sing.

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