The Select Works of William Penn....J.Phillips, 1782 |
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... been the best measures that most have taken of us , and of our principles ; for whilft there have been none more inoffenfive , we have been mark- ed for capital offenders . A 2 It It is hard that we should always lie under this TO THE.
... been the best measures that most have taken of us , and of our principles ; for whilft there have been none more inoffenfive , we have been mark- ed for capital offenders . A 2 It It is hard that we should always lie under this TO THE.
Page iv
... most Christian and rational , but prudent alfo ; and the contrary ( how plaufible foever infinuated ) the most injurious to the peace , and deftructive of that discreet balance , which the best and wifeft ftates have ever carefully ...
... most Christian and rational , but prudent alfo ; and the contrary ( how plaufible foever infinuated ) the most injurious to the peace , and deftructive of that discreet balance , which the best and wifeft ftates have ever carefully ...
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... most truly is . Nay , were they thofe men of reason they character themselves , and what the civil law ftiles good citizens , it had been needlefs for us to tell them , that neither can any external coercive power convince the ...
... most truly is . Nay , were they thofe men of reason they character themselves , and what the civil law ftiles good citizens , it had been needlefs for us to tell them , that neither can any external coercive power convince the ...
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... most infallible , as by their multiplied conceffions may appear , to enact any religion , or pro- hibit perfons from the free exercife of theirs , founds harfh in the ears of all modeft and unbiaffed men . We are bold to fay , our ...
... most infallible , as by their multiplied conceffions may appear , to enact any religion , or pro- hibit perfons from the free exercife of theirs , founds harfh in the ears of all modeft and unbiaffed men . We are bold to fay , our ...
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... most certain we have not fuffered a little , as criminals , and therefore have been far from being free from fuffer- ings ; indeed , in fome refpect , horrid plunders : wi- dows have loft their cows , orphans their beds , and labourers ...
... most certain we have not fuffered a little , as criminals , and therefore have been far from being free from fuffer- ings ; indeed , in fome refpect , horrid plunders : wi- dows have loft their cows , orphans their beds , and labourers ...
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Page 326 - For the grave cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: The father to the children shall make known thy truth.
Page 135 - Lord hath not spoken ? when a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
Page 307 - Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer : and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
Page 131 - In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
Page 131 - I will pray the Father, and he will give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him.
Page 219 - ... pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.
Page 496 - Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust; for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
Page 166 - I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
Page 133 - As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord ; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.
Page 334 - The voice of the LORD is powerful ; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.