Quakerism Versus Calvinism: Being a Reply to "Quakerism Not Christianity," Or Reasons for Renouncing the Doctrine of Friends

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Wm. A. Mercein, 1834 - Society of Friends - 211 pages

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Page 167 - Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum : We have such an High Priest, Who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens : a Minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
Page 66 - Hereby know ye the Spirit of God : every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God : and every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the fesh is not of God...
Page 106 - Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. 24 Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity.
Page 158 - And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought : 39 But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
Page 182 - ... when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God and obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ...
Page 203 - Now tongues shall cease, and prophecy fail, and faith shall be consummated in sight, and hope in enjoyment ; but love remains. 554. Love is indeed heaven upon earth ; since heaven above would not be heaven without it; for where there is not love, there is fear; but,
Page 69 - We do not hereby intend, any ways, to lessen or derogate from the atonement and sacrifice of Jesus Christ ; but, on the contrary, do magnify and exalt it. For as we believe all those things to have -been certainly transacted, which are recorded in the Holy Scriptures, concerning the birth, life, miracles, sufferings, resurrection, and ascension of Christ; so we do also believe, that it is the duty of every one to believe it, to whom it pleases God to reveal the same, and to bring to them the knowledge...
Page 55 - The mystery of the first and second Adam, of the fall and restoration, of the law and gospel, of shadows and substance, of the servant's and Son's state, and the fulfilling of the scriptures in Christ and by Christ the true light, in all that are his, through the obedience of faith, were much of the substance and drift of his testimonies...
Page 123 - Elect infants, dying in infancy, are regenerated and saved by Christ through the Spirit, who worketh when, and where, and how he pleaseth. So also are all other elect persons, who are incapable of being outwardly called by the ministry of the word.
Page 191 - Pure religion, and undefiled before God the father, is this, to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and to keep ourselves unspotted from the world...

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