Some Account of the Life and Religious Labours of Sarah Grubb: With an Appendix Containing an Account of Ackworth School, Remarks on Christian Discipline, and Extracts from Her Letters

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J. Phillips, 1794 - Quaker church buildings - 438 pages
 

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Page 281 - And fhould any wifdom prefide over that " which cometh down from above, and is firft pure, then peaceable, gentle, and eafy to be entreated, full of mercy, and full of good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrify...
Page 187 - ... fight the good fight of faith, and to lay hold on eternal life.
Page 134 - I, the Lord, have brought down the high tree, and exalted the low...
Page 369 - ... conformed to this world, but transformed by the renewing of our minds, that we " may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God,
Page 333 - We took fweet counfel, and our fpirits were baptized together, and prepared thereby to go up as to the mountain of the Lord, and to the houfe of the God of Jacob, where He has gracioufly condefcended to teach us more and more of his ways, and begotten frefh refolutions in us to walk in His paths.
Page 417 - I know thou haft thy fecret provings ; but fear not, " Greater is He that is in thee, than he that is in the world.
Page 282 - ... are by no means acquitted thereby, their conduct not being the produce of that faith, which worketh by love, to the purifying of the heart.
Page 149 - Although the fig-tree fhall not blofibm, neither fhall fruit be in the vines ; the labour of the olive fhall fail, and the fields fhall yield no meat ; the...
Page 229 - We are confcious that we have no claim to the liberty of addrcffing thee, but from a belief that the Lord Almighty, who ruleth in the kingdoms of men, and giveth them to whomfoever he will...
Page 419 - But fome man will fay, How are the dead raifed up ? And with what body do they come ? Thou fool, that which thou foweft is not quickened, except it die...

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