A journal or historical account of the life, travels, sufferings, Christian experiences and labour of love in the work of the ministry ... of ... George Fox. Vol. 1 [the only volume].1694 |
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... town desired to speak with me , and I went to them , amongst whom was colonel Rouse . A great deal of discourse I had with them concerning the things of God , and in their reasoning they said the gospel was the four books of Matthew ...
... town desired to speak with me , and I went to them , amongst whom was colonel Rouse . A great deal of discourse I had with them concerning the things of God , and in their reasoning they said the gospel was the four books of Matthew ...
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... town a little before , insomuch that some friends questioned the peaceableness of our meet- ing ; but the Lord's ... town , the town's people would not pay it , but made them bear it themselves ; and that brake the neck of their ...
... town a little before , insomuch that some friends questioned the peaceableness of our meet- ing ; but the Lord's ... town , the town's people would not pay it , but made them bear it themselves ; and that brake the neck of their ...
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... town betwixt England and Wales , where was a great fair that day ; and several friends being at the fair , we went to an inn , and friends came to us . And after we had had a fine opportunity with friends , we parted from them , and ...
... town betwixt England and Wales , where was a great fair that day ; and several friends being at the fair , we went to an inn , and friends came to us . And after we had had a fine opportunity with friends , we parted from them , and ...
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... towns , through which they passed , with this inscription : This is Oliver Atherton of Ormskirk parish , persecuted to death by the Countess of Derby for good conscience sake towards God and Christ , because he could not give her tithes ...
... towns , through which they passed , with this inscription : This is Oliver Atherton of Ormskirk parish , persecuted to death by the Countess of Derby for good conscience sake towards God and Christ , because he could not give her tithes ...
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... town of Garstang , and threatened to complain to the king and council , and bring them into trouble for suffering the paper concerning Oliver Atherton's death to be stuck upon their cross . The rage that she expressed , made the people ...
... town of Garstang , and threatened to complain to the king and council , and bring them into trouble for suffering the paper concerning Oliver Atherton's death to be stuck upon their cross . The rage that she expressed , made the people ...
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Page 393 - For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of GOD, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven : if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
Page 384 - For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear ; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God...
Page 438 - Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? "Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy reward. "Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am.
Page 310 - Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.
Page 441 - I receive not honour from men. 42 But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you. 43 I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive. 44 How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only...
Page 352 - Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
Page 380 - What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it...
Page 373 - For the living know that they shall die : but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward ; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished ; neither have they any more a portion for ever in anything that is done under the sun.
Page 137 - We believe they are to be read, believed, and fulfilled (he that fulfils them, is Christ) ; and they are profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works, 2 Tim.
Page 384 - But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.