Christian Advices: Issued by the Yearly Meeting of Friends Held in PhiladelphiaFor sale at Friends' Book-Store, 1879 - 144 pages |
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... reading of plays , romances , novels , or other pernicious books , which evidently tend to strengthen the corrupt propensities of our nature , ( 9 ) to give the mind false ideas of pleasure and happi- CHRISTIAN ADVICES. ...
... reading of plays , romances , novels , or other pernicious books , which evidently tend to strengthen the corrupt propensities of our nature , ( 9 ) to give the mind false ideas of pleasure and happi- CHRISTIAN ADVICES. ...
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... tend to settle the reader in a mere belief in the outward coming of Christ , yet overlooking his spiritual appearance in the heart , and the work of regeneration by his Holy Spirit , without which our Lord declared , that no man can see ...
... tend to settle the reader in a mere belief in the outward coming of Christ , yet overlooking his spiritual appearance in the heart , and the work of regeneration by his Holy Spirit , without which our Lord declared , that no man can see ...
Page 20
... tends to lay waste our Christian testimony , or to subject their brethren or others to sufferings on account of their conscientious scruples . - 1762 . It is earnestly desired and recommended that the members of our religious Society ...
... tends to lay waste our Christian testimony , or to subject their brethren or others to sufferings on account of their conscientious scruples . - 1762 . It is earnestly desired and recommended that the members of our religious Society ...
Page 60
... tends to rob us of them be carefully shunned ; for without them , however earnest our zeal for the cause of Truth in other respects may appear , formality will take place of the substance , and the life and power of true religion be ...
... tends to rob us of them be carefully shunned ; for without them , however earnest our zeal for the cause of Truth in other respects may appear , formality will take place of the substance , and the life and power of true religion be ...
Page 75
... and power of Truth to bear them up . - 1723 . As the occasion of our religious meetings is solemn , a care should ever be maintained to guard against everything that would tend to dis- order or MINISTERS AND ELDERS . 75.
... and power of Truth to bear them up . - 1723 . As the occasion of our religious meetings is solemn , a care should ever be maintained to guard against everything that would tend to dis- order or MINISTERS AND ELDERS . 75.
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