A Serious Call in Christian Love to All People, to Turn to the Spirit of Christ in Themselves : That They May Come to Have a Right Understanding of the Things of God, and Be Enabled Thereby to Serve Him Acceptably (Classic Reprint) by Benjamin Holme (2016, Trade Paperback)
Excerpt from A Serious Call in Christian Love to All People, to Turn to the Spirit of Christ in Themselves: That They May Come to Have a Right Understanding of the Things of God, and Be Enabled Thereby to Serve Him Acceptably Hat is here presented to tby view, is writ ten in great love, and I 'desire tbat tbc Lord, by bis Holy Spirit, may give tbee a rigbt understanding of tbc trutbs berein laid down. Our principles and doctrine have been very macb misrepresented, and many of our Friends' words and writings bave been wrested and misconstrued by many wbo wanted chari ty, wbicb is tbe bond of perfec'lion tbe dpostle bas excellently described it in bis first epistle to tbc Co rinthians; be saitb, charity sufi'ereth long, and is 1 Cor. Kind; charity'envigth not; charity vaunteth not it 5' 6k self, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseem ly, seeketh not her own, is not easily, provoked, thinketh no evil, rejoiceth not in iniquity, but re jo'iceth in the truth: Ob, tbat it migbt prevail a d mongst tbe children of men universally, tbat so tbere migbt be no envying one dnotber: cbarity is so far from speaking evil, or doing evil, tbat it tbinketb no evil: Though, saitb tbc flpostle, I bestow all my Cor, xiii._3o goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body g to be burned, and, have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. It were greatly to be desired, tbat all would endeavour to excel tberein, tbat so tbere migbt be an boly barmony amongst tbc cbildren of men. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Serious Call in Christian Love to All People, to Turn to the Spirit of Christ in Themselves : That They May Come to Have a Right Understanding of the Things of God, and Be Enabled Thereby to Serve Him Acceptably (Classic Reprint)