The Narragansett Friends' Meeting in the Xviii Century: With a Chapter on Quaker Beginnings in Rhode Island |
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Page 61 - For, don't you mark? we're made so that we love First when we see them painted, things we have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see; And so they are better, painted — better to us, Which is the same thing. Art was given for that; God uses us to help each other so, Lending our minds out.
Page 19 - ... to be immediately sent of God and infallibly assisted by the spirit to speak and write blasphemous opinions, despising government and the order of God in church and commonwealth, speaking evil of dignities, reproaching and reviling magistrates and ministers, seeking to turn the people from the faith, and gain proselytes to their pernicious ways...
Page 27 - Were ever such laws heard of among a people that profess Christ come in the flesh ? Have you no other weapons but such laws to fight against spiritual wickedness withal, as you call it ? Woe is me for you. Ye are disobedient and deOct ceived. Let my request be as Esther's to Ahasuerus. ' You will not repent that you were kept from shedding blood, though it was by a woman.
Page 188 - ... hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth...
Page 28 - ... are. In love and in the spirit of meekness I again beseech you, for I have no enmity to the persons of any...
Page 27 - ... are ; which Light as you come into, and obeying what is made manifest to you therein, you will not repent, that you were kept from shedding Blood, though it were from a Woman...
Page 29 - No; this is to me an Hour of the greatest Joy I ever had in this World: No Ear can hear, no Tongue can utter, and no Heart can understand, the sweet Incomes or Influence, and the Refreshings of the Spirit of the Lord which now I feel.
Page 8 - And we, moreover, finde, that in those places where these people aforesaid, in this colony, are most of all suffered to declare themselves freely, and are only opposed by arguments in discourse, there they least of all desire to come, and we are informed that they begin to loath this place for that they are not opposed by the civill authority...
Page 27 - I have no self-ends, the Lord knoweth, for if my Life were freely granted by you, it would not avail me, nor could I expect it of you, so long as I should daily hear or see the Sufferings of these People, my dear Brethren and Seed, with whom my Life is bound up, as I have done these two Years; and...
Page 35 - I cannot, for in obedience to the will of the Lord I came, and in his will I abide faithful to the death.