Friends' Miscellany, Volume 4John Comly, Isaac Comly editors, 1833 |
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... Nicholites , Lambert Hopkin's Account of Joseph Nichols , & c . 182 190 191 193 227 · 235 239 - 241 256 William Needle's do John Woolman's do do do 259 260 Reflections , Job Scott's Remarks on the Nicholites , Testimony concerning Jacob ...
... Nicholites , Lambert Hopkin's Account of Joseph Nichols , & c . 182 190 191 193 227 · 235 239 - 241 256 William Needle's do John Woolman's do do do 259 260 Reflections , Job Scott's Remarks on the Nicholites , Testimony concerning Jacob ...
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... Nicholites . " This people commenced about the middle of the eighteenth century , and were mostly confined to the state of Maryland . Joseph Nichols , the person most conspicuous as an instrument , in the convince- ment and gathering of ...
... Nicholites . " This people commenced about the middle of the eighteenth century , and were mostly confined to the state of Maryland . Joseph Nichols , the person most conspicuous as an instrument , in the convince- ment and gathering of ...
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... Nicholites had a firm and unwavering testimony against war , and against all manner of swearing , holding their fellow men in bondage , -- extravagance in dress , furniture , address , & c . & c.- and against an hireling ministry . In ...
... Nicholites had a firm and unwavering testimony against war , and against all manner of swearing , holding their fellow men in bondage , -- extravagance in dress , furniture , address , & c . & c.- and against an hireling ministry . In ...
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... Nicholites not only abstained from profane language and common swearing , but had a testimony against oaths of all ... Nicholites , or New Quakers . " But the appellation which they gave themselves was FRIENDS . Thus by faithfully ...
... Nicholites not only abstained from profane language and common swearing , but had a testimony against oaths of all ... Nicholites , or New Quakers . " But the appellation which they gave themselves was FRIENDS . Thus by faithfully ...
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Page 61 - Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
Page 27 - God who is a Spirit, and must be worshipped in spirit and in truth.
Page 209 - My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, And planted it with the choicest vine, And built a tower in the midst of it, And also made a winepress therein: And he looked that it should bring forth grapes, And it brought forth wild grapes.
Page 60 - Here is firm footing ; here is solid rock ! This can support us ; all is sea besides • Sinks under us ; bestorms, and then devours. His hand the good man fastens on the skies, And bids earth roll, nor feels her idle whirl.
Page 38 - I know no man in all Arabia who can offer his kindred a more excellent thing than I now do you; I offer you happiness both in this life, and in that which is to come: God Almighty hath commanded me to call you unto him; who, therefore, among you will be assisting to me herein, and become my brother, and my vicegerent?
Page 215 - And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven : and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. And, behold, the LORD stood above it...
Page 209 - And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard. What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it 1 wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
Page 209 - And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard : I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; And break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down...
Page 107 - Deut. xvi. 20, and to do to others as we would they should do to us.
Page 273 - But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.