A Confutation of Quakerism;: Or a Plain Proof of the Falshood of what the Principal Quaker Writers (especially Mr. R. Barclay in His Apology and Other Works) Do Teach Concerning the Necessity of Immediate Revelation in Order to a Saving Christian Faith; the Being, Nature and Operation of the Pretended Universal Light Within; Its Striving with Men, Moving Them to Prayer, and Calling Them to the Ministry; Regeneration, Sanctification, Justification, Salvation and Union with God; the Nature of a Church; the Rule of Faith; Water-baptism; and the Lord's-Supper. Diverse Questions Also Concerning Perfection, Christ's Satisfaction, the Judge of Controversies, &c. are Briefly Stated and ResolvedPrinted at the University-Press, for Edmund Jeffery, bookseller in Cambridge; and are to be sold by James Knapton at the Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard, London., 1709 - Society of Friends - 318 pages |
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Page 165 - WE are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by faith, and not for our own works or deservings...
Page 170 - But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or. a drunkard, or an extortioner ; with such an one no not to eat.
Page 146 - Ye men of Israel, hear these words ; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, (which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know...
Page 87 - As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.
Page 171 - Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours: 3 Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 57 - But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you : but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
Page 30 - If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. ^But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works : that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
Page 74 - But what saith it ? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart ; that is, the word of faith which we preach...
Page 78 - But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
Page 67 - I say, that the heir as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all ; but is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father. Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world...