A Summary View of the Millennial Church, Or United Society of Believers (commonly Called Shakers): Comprising the Rise, Progress, and Practical Order of the Society, Together with the General Principles of Their Faith and TestimonyPackard & Van Benthuysen, 1823 - 320 pages |
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Page iii
... proved highly useful , and done much towards affecting the important object for which they were intended ; es- pecially that entitled , " The Testimony of Christ's Second Ap- pearing , " which has had an extensive circulation . * And if ...
... proved highly useful , and done much towards affecting the important object for which they were intended ; es- pecially that entitled , " The Testimony of Christ's Second Ap- pearing , " which has had an extensive circulation . * And if ...
Page iv
... prove that they were under the government of their malignant passions . It has always been the fate of truth to be stigmatized and slan- dered by falsehood . Whenever the spirit of truth has , in any age , been revealed to any people ...
... prove that they were under the government of their malignant passions . It has always been the fate of truth to be stigmatized and slan- dered by falsehood . Whenever the spirit of truth has , in any age , been revealed to any people ...
Page v
... proved by eye and ear witnesses in abundance . And when we take into consideration the remarkable similarity that . appears between the reports against the primitive christians , and those that have been circulated against the believers ...
... proved by eye and ear witnesses in abundance . And when we take into consideration the remarkable similarity that . appears between the reports against the primitive christians , and those that have been circulated against the believers ...
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... prove to be the calumniators of the Society which they have left , especially when they very well know that there are so many in the world who are always more ready to believe evil reports , than to seek after the truth . But truth is ...
... prove to be the calumniators of the Society which they have left , especially when they very well know that there are so many in the world who are always more ready to believe evil reports , than to seek after the truth . But truth is ...
Page ix
... prove what he is . Among all the accounts of the United Society that have ever yet appeared before the public , from under the hands of those who have apostatized from the Society , whatever the writer's preten- sions might be , we have ...
... prove what he is . Among all the accounts of the United Society that have ever yet appeared before the public , from under the hands of those who have apostatized from the Society , whatever the writer's preten- sions might be , we have ...
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Page 284 - And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown and in his hand a sharp sickle.
Page 254 - And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.
Page 95 - And I beheld, and lo, in the midst of the throne, and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
Page 318 - He that is unjust, let him be unjust still, and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still, and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still, and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
Page 185 - And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things ? And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
Page 154 - And these all, having obtained a good report through faith received not the promise, God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
Page 255 - And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.
Page 206 - Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind : which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away.
Page 117 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Page 91 - And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness... So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them...