LettersAssociation of Friends for the Diffusion of Religious and Useful Knowledge, 1858 - Quaker converts - 125 pages |
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abide afflictions aright AYLESBURY PRISON blessed bound in cloth breathe canst Christian darkness DEAR FRIEND desire discern distress dominion doth dwell ELIZABETH FRY enemy faith Father fear felt flesh forever fulness GEORGE FOX give thee glory God's Spirit Gospel grace hearken heavenly Holy Spirit I. P. LETTER inwardly Isaac Penington Jesus Christ John Barclay judge keep knowledge Lady Conway light living Long Parliament look Lord hath Lord Jesus Christ Lord's manifest meekness mightst Month nature ness obedience Oh that thou outward peace pray preserve Price pure seed racter reasonings righteousness salvation Samuel Tuke Scriptures snares Spirit and power spring strength take heed temptations tender love tender mercy thereof things thou art thou hast thou mayst feel thou wilt Thy friend thy heart thy mind thy soul tion trials trouble truly unto virtue wait to feel walk watch wherein WILLIAM PENN wisdom witness
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Page 49 - The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness ; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
Page 96 - Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith ; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates ? 6 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.
Page 113 - Though the fig tree do not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Page 8 - ... not believing in the power which thou feelest they have over thee, and it will fall on a sudden. It is good for thy spirit, and greatly to thy advantage, to be much and variously exercised by the Lord.
Page 36 - God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers...
Page 9 - Advocate, who undertakes thy cause, hath faith to give : only do thou sink into, or at least pant after the hidden measure of life, which is not in that which distresseth, disturbeth, and filleth thee with thoughts, fears, troubles, anguish, darknesses, terrors, and the like ; no, no ! but in that which inclines to the patience, to the stillness, to the hope, to the wailing, to the silence before the Father...
Page 78 - Because the Lord God of power is present there, stretcheth out his wings there, is a pillar of cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night there! He hath raised up his glorious life in that heart, whereof he is very choice ; and he hath also spread a defence over his glory, with which the soul is so encompassed and defended, that it feels the walls of this city to be salvation, and its gates praise. O my soul, travel on ! — O dear Friends ! do ye also travel on, into the fulness of the glory of...
Page 58 - MEEKNESS, AND WATCHING OVER EACH OTHER. To Friends in Amersham. FRIENDS : — Our life is love, and peace, and tenderness, and bearing one with another, and forgiving one another, and not laying accusations one against another; but praying one for another, and helping one another up with a tender hand, if there has been any slip or fall, and waiting till the Lord gives sense and repentance, if sense and repentance in any be wanting.