Six Generations of Friends in Ireland (1655 to 1890)Headley Brothers, 1895 - 289 pages |
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Popular passages
Page 289 - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God . . . All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made.
Page 117 - Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
Page 256 - Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations...
Page 124 - Take counsel, execute judgment; Make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday ; Hide the outcasts ; bewray not him that wandereth. Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab ; Be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler : For the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, The oppressors are consumed out of the land.
Page 90 - As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
Page 238 - When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity.
Page 240 - For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer.
Page 49 - This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips ; but their heart is far from me.
Page 284 - ... to any other : if it be betrayed it bears it ; for its ground and spring is the mercies and forgiveness of God. Its crown is meekness, its life is everlasting love unfeigned, and takes its kingdom with entreaty, and not with contention, and keeps it by lowliness of mind.
Page 65 - He maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.