A Discourse on Mistakes Concerning Religion, Enthusiasm, Experiences, &c

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London printed, Germantown reprinted by Christopher Sower, 1759 - 168 pages
Also includes: William Dell, Christ's spirit, a christian's strength. Or, a plain discovery of the mighty and invincible power, that all believers receive through the gift of the spirit, Germantown, Christopher Sower, 1760.

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Page 126 - If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works : that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
Page 9 - For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Page 126 - Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.
Page 164 - I have given them thy word, and the world hath hated them : because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world.
Page 143 - Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his Anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
Page 122 - God, who is the Lamb of God, that takes away the sins of the world...
Page 64 - Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick. But when Jesus heard it, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but 'for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified thereby.
Page 148 - Ye fee your calling brethren, how that " not many wife men after the flefh, not many mighty, " not many noble are called. But God hath chofen the " foolifh things of the world to confound the wife ; and. " God hath chofen the weak things of the world to con" found the things which are mighty...
Page 150 - I do not understand a religion that tells us to love our enemies, and to do good to them that do harm to us — it is a strange religion.
Page 100 - But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the Lord, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.

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