 I myself, in part, am a true witness, who not by strength of arguments, or by a particular disquisition of each doctrine, and convincement of my understanding thereby, came to receive and bear witness of the truth, but by being secretly reached by this...  Present Day Papers - Page 241899Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | John Henry Jowett - 1910 - 264 pages
...experience. " When I came into the silent assemblies of God's people," says Robert Barclay, " I felt a sweet power among them which touched my heart, and as I...the evil weakening in me and the good raised up." But the human side of the apostolic Koutwia includes riches other than these. It is not only a mystic... | |
 | Geoffrey Rhodes - 1912 - 240 pages
...This is how Robert Barclay, the young Apologist, describes what he found in their meetings : — " When I came into the silent assemblies of God's people,...found the evil weakening in me and the good raised up ; and so I became thus knit and united unto them, hungering more and more after the increase of this... | |
 | 1920 - 594 pages
...of God. Eobert Barclay paid a beautiful tribute to the influence of the Quaker meeting when he said: "When I came into the Silent Assemblies of God's people...the evil weakening in me, and the good raised up." That is really what we need in a service — to feel the secret power of God in the hearts of men at... | |
 | A. W. Ward, A. R. Waller - 1976 - 408 pages
...nevertheless, without any urging from his father, he, also, at the age of nineteen became a quaker. When I came into the silent assemblies of God's people, I felt a secret power among1 them, which touched my heart; and as I gave way nnto it, 1 found the evil weakening in me, and... | |
 | Thomas Edmund Harvey - 1923 - 72 pages
...thereby, came to receive and bear witness of the truth, but by being secretly reached by this life ; for when I came into the silent assemblies of God's people,...found the Evil weakening in me and the Good raised up, and so I became thus knit and united unto them, hungering more and more after the increase of this... | |
 | Alfred Neave Brayshaw - 1927 - 326 pages
...came [I] to receive and bear witness of the Truth, but by being secretly reached by this Life ; for when I came into the silent assemblies of God's people...found the evil weakening in me and the good raised up (Apology, xi. 7). That this is not to be misunderstood as disparagement of ministry in general is evident... | |
 | London Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends) - 1927 - 160 pages
...usually is pretended on that side likewise. ("Universal Love," 1676, in Works, 1692 edn., p. 678.) of God's people, I felt a secret power among them,...found the evil weakening in me and the good raised up ; and so I became thus knit and united unto them, hungering more and more after the increase of this... | |
 | Douglas Van Steere - 1984 - 354 pages
...being ended, the peace of God . . . remained as a holy canopy over my mind.10 Robert Barclay wrote, When I came into the silent assemblies of God's people,...found the evil weakening in me and the good raised up.11 And he speaks of this experience as being "the cement by which we are bound to the Lord and to... | |
 | Thomas Ellwood - 2004 - 256 pages
...Christian Divinity is too long to reproduce in full, but the following extract is well known to Quakers: When I came into the silent assemblies of God's people...found the evil weakening in me and the good raised up, and so I became thus knit and united unto them, hungering more and more after the increase of this... | |
 | Jackie Leach Scully, Pink Dandelion - 2007 - 276 pages
...would be inconceivable for early Quakers. Robert Barclay testified of his own experience: . . . when 1 came into the silent assemblies of God's people, I...secret power among them, which touched my heart; and as 1 gave way unto it, I found the evil weakening in me and the good raised up; and so I became thus knit... | |
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