Aspects of Faith and Religion in the Seventeenth Century

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Wells Gardner, Darton, 1891 - 139 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 91 - no man knoweth the Father but the Son, and he to whom the Son revealeth him'; and seeing 'the revelation of the Son is in and by the Spirit'; therefore the testimony of the Spirit is that alone by which the true knowledge of God hath been, is, and can be only revealed; who as.
Pàgina 123 - By doing good, by being in every kind merciful after their power, as they have opportunity, doing good of every possible sort, and, as far as possible, to all men.
Pàgina 59 - When all my hopes in them and in all men, were gone, so that I had nothing outwardly to help me, nor could I tell what to do ; then, O ! then I heard a voice which said, " There is one, even Christ Jesus, that can speak to thy condition;" and when I heard it, my heart did leap for joy.
Pàgina 123 - ... by doing good especially to them that are of the household of faith, or groaning so to be; employing them preferably to others, buying one of another; helping each other in business; and so much the more, because the world will love its own, and them only: by all possible diligence and frugality, that the Gospel be not blamed: by running with patience the race...
Pàgina 124 - It is expected of all who desire to continue in these societies that they should continue to evidence their desire of salvation: Thirdly, by attending upon all the ordinances of God. Such are the public worship of God; the ministry of the Word, either read or expounded; the Supper of the Lord; family and private prayer; searching the Scriptures; and fasting, or abstinence.
Pàgina 121 - They desired, (as did two or three more the next day,) that he would spend some time with them in prayer, and advise them how to flee from the wrath to come ; which they saw continually hanging over their heads.
Pàgina 131 - ... ere the house of God can be built. And when every stone is laid artfully together, it cannot be united into a continuity, it can but be contiguous in this world: neither can every piece of the building be of one form ; nay, rather the perfection consists in this, that out of many moderate varieties and brotherly dissimilitudes that are not vastly disproportional, arises the goodly and the graceful symmetry that commends the whole pile and structure.
Pàgina 72 - God, who is the Lamb of God, that takes away the sins of the world...
Pàgina 123 - Lord, either by doing ordinary work thereon, or by buying or selling ; drunkenness, buying or selling spirituous liquors, or drinking them, unless in cases of extreme necessity...
Pàgina 122 - ... but wherever this is really fixed in the soul it will be shown by its fruits. It is therefore expected of all who continue therein that they should continue to evidence their desire of salvation : First, by doing no harm, by avoiding evil...

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