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An Examination of the Causes Which Led to the Separation of the Religious Society of Friends in America, in L827-28 - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868. Excerpt: ... nature," &c.1 "We are by nature the children of wrath. Prone to iniquity, and transgressors from the womb, we are alienated from God who is the source of all happiness; and in the world to come, eternal separation from Him, and therefore eternal misery is the appointed consequence of our evil doings."' THE DIVINE BEING. § 4. In the fourth chapter of this treatise, the doctrines of the early Friends concerning the Supreme Being were exhibited. They may be recapitulated as follows: First. They denied the doctrine of "The Trinity of three distinct and separate persons in the unity of essence." Chap. iv. § 2. Secondly. "They believed in the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit 'as one Divine Being, one God blessed forever.'" § 3 and 4. Thirdly. They denied that the Holy Spirit is a person distinct from the Father and the Son. § 5. Fourthly. They believed in the Divinity of Christ, as God manifest in the flesh; they also acknowledged his manhood, (the soul and body,) according to the Scriptures. § 6. Fifthly. They maintained that the Eternal word that was in the beginning with God and was God, manifested himself as the "Spiritual rock" that followed the Israelites in the wilderness,--as "the Spirit of Christ" that spoke through the prophets,--as the glory of the Lord that appeared to Isaiah in the temple,--as the "only-begotten of the Father " that took flesh, and dwelt in fulness, or without measure, in Jesus of Nazareth,--and as the Comforter or Spirit of Truth that comes " in the spirit and power of the Most High " to "be with his disciples always to the end of the world." § 7 and 8. Sixthly. They held 1 Essays on Christianity. London, p. 219. Ibid, 510, that Jesus Christ is the head, or chief member of that spiritual body, o...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1150140437
- ISBN 13 9781150140433
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages92
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