Shakers: Compendium of the Origin, History, Principles, Rules and Regulations, Government, and Doctrines of the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing. With Biographies of Ann Lee, William Lee, Jas. Whittaker, J. Hocknell, J. Meacham, and Lucy Wright

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D. Appleton, 1859 - 189 pages
 

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Page 99 - And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
Page 62 - Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you.
Page 62 - Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; and whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Page 103 - But yet neither is the man without the woman, nor the woman without the man, in the Lord.
Page 75 - And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
Page 85 - God by faith; that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Page 149 - Do all your work as though you had a thousand years to live; and as you would if you knew you must die to-morrow.
Page 92 - Now I want you to contrast this state of religious rapture with some of our modern phases of mind in parallel circumstances. You see that the promise of Jeremiah's, "Thou shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry," is immediately followed by this, " Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria." And again, at the yearly feast to the Lord in Shiloh, the dancing of the virgins was in the midst of the vineyards (Judges xxi., 21), the feast of the vintage being in the south, as...
Page 57 - Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, No man taketh it from me; but I lay it down of myself.
Page 86 - The apocalyptic angel is flying with increasing celerity in the midst of heaven, " having the everlasting gospel to preach to them that dwell upon the earth...

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