An Affectionate Farewell Address to Friends in North America. ...

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Brown & Danforth., 1823 - Society of Friends - 10 pages

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Page 22 - might be found unto praise, and honor, and glory, at the appearing of Jesus Christ. Whom having not seen, ye love ; in whom, though now ye see Him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory : receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souk.
Page 19 - Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities ; thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down ; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.
Page 22 - the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible and undefíled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God, through faith, unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season (if need be) ye are in heaviness, through manifold temptations ; that the trial of your faith, being
Page 22 - to be revealed in the last time. Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season (if need be) ye are in heaviness, through manifold temptations ; that the trial of your faith, being
Page 23 - favoured, through all eternity, to join in singing the song of "Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord
Page 12 - expresses himself in this feeling language : " Grace be to you and peace, from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for our sins.
Page 11 - from prison and from judgment; and who shall declare his generation? for He was cut off out of the land of the living : for the transgression of my people was He stricken.
Page 22 - true. May these be encouraged to leave the things that are behind, and to press forward towards the mark for the prize of the high calling of God, in Christ Jesus our Lord, that so they may be found in a state of readiness
Page 17 - gloomy things may appear in some places, I have no doubt in my mind that the Lord will in his own time, bless the dust of Sion, and satisfy all her poor with bread ; that He will give his Church the heathen for an inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for a possession. I have sometimes believed that the Lord will raise up from among the rising generation, those
Page 22 - His abundant mercy hath begotten us again to a lively hope, by the resurrection of

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