An apology for the true Christian divinity, as the same is held forth, and preached by the people, called, in scorn, Quakers being a full explanation and vindication of their principles and doctrines, by many arguments, deduced from Scripture and right reason, and the testimony of famous authors, both ancient and modern, with a full answer to the strongest objections usually made against them, presented to the King / written and published in Latine, for the information of strangers, by Robert Barclay ; and now put into our own language, for the benefit of his country-men.
I doubt not, but thou wilt say with me and many more, that this is the Spiritual day of Christs Appearance, wherein he is again revealing the ancient paths of Truth and Righteousness.
I doubt not, but thou wilt say with me and many more, that this is the Spiritual day of Christ Appearance, wherein he is again revealing the ancient paths of Truth and Righteousness.
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and yet many of those are so in love with their empty forms and shadows, that they cease not to calumniate us for commending and calling them to the substance,
and yet many of those Are so in love with their empty forms and shadows, that they cease not to calumniate us for commending and calling them to the substance,
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as if we therefore denyed or neglected the true form and outward part of Christianity, which indeed is (as God the searcher of hearts knows) a very great slander.
as if we Therefore denied or neglected the true from and outward part of Christianity, which indeed is (as God the searcher of hearts knows) a very great slander.
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Because we tell them that it is not their talking, or believing of Christ's outward life, sufferings, death and resurrection, no more than the Jews crying, The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, that will serve their turn,
Because we tell them that it is not their talking, or believing of Christ's outward life, sufferings, death and resurrection, no more than the jews crying, The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, that will serve their turn,
Because we tell them, while they are talking and determining about the Resurrection, that they have more need to know the Just One, whom they have slain, raised in themselves, and to be sure they are partakers of the first resurrection, and that if this be, they will be the more capable to judg of the second :
Because we tell them, while they Are talking and determining about the Resurrection, that they have more need to know the Just One, whom they have slave, raised in themselves, and to be sure they Are partakers of the First resurrection, and that if this be, they will be the more capable to judge of the second:
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Because, when we hear them talk foolishly of Heaven and Hell, and the last Judgment, we exhort them to come out of that hellish condition they are in,
Because, when we hear them talk foolishly of Heaven and Hell, and the last Judgement, we exhort them to come out of that hellish condition they Are in,
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and come down to the judgment of Christ in their own hearts, and believe in the Light, and follow it, that so they may come to sit in the heavenly places, that are in Christ Jesus,
and come down to the judgement of christ in their own hearts, and believe in the Light, and follow it, that so they may come to fit in the heavenly places, that Are in christ jesus,
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and might, in and by his own Spirit and Power in a despised People (that no flesh might glory in his presence) pull down that dead, dark, corrupt image,
and might, in and by his own Spirit and Power in a despised People (that no Flesh might glory in his presence) pull down that dead, dark, corrupt image,
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and meer shadow, and shell of Christianity, wherewith Antichrist hath deceived the Nations, for which end he hath called us to be a first-fruits of those that serve him and worship him, no more in the oldness of the letter,
and mere shadow, and shell of Christianity, wherewith Antichrist hath deceived the nations, for which end he hath called us to be a Firstfruits of those that serve him and worship him, no more in the oldness of the Letter,
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The mouth of the Lord hath spoken it, yea he that hath arisen in a small remnant, shall arise and go on by the same Arm of Power in his Spiritual manifestation,
The Mouth of the Lord hath spoken it, yea he that hath arisen in a small remnant, shall arise and go on by the same Arm of Power in his Spiritual manifestation,
