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Internal evidence of Divine inspiration found among them.

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Fisher Inquiry for the lost writings of inspired Prophets. Fisher 154 Inquiry for the lost epistles of Paul and other Apostles.

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Inference that the "Canon of Scripture is not completed, closed, and limited, by divine authority." Fisher Fisher's work conclusive as to the views of the early Friends concerning the Scriptures

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That "Bread which came down from heaven" is still given to those who hunger

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CHAPTER VII.

Grace, universal; Salvation, common. Scripture authorities 161 The Gospel is "come into all the world :" the Bible not so 162 The Gospel, by which "life and immortality are brought preached to every creature :" the Bible

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Our Saviour was offered on the cross" for the sins of the whole world"

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Absurd confusion and inconsistency of opponents
The justice and mercy of God in Jesus Christ vindicated 166
Testimony to the high worth of Holy Scripture as an auxil-

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Appeal to the sympathies of our common nature

Christ is mighty to save unto the uttermost

Without law no transgression

Knowledge of good and evil, and freedom to choose

Infinite love and compassion of the Most High

Objections, similar to those now before us, proposed, an

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A manifestation of the Spirit given to every man

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Extreme presumption of the advocates of a limited and ex

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Corrupt teachers making traffic of holy things

Christ the Power of God, the free and universal Light

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Gross want of candour, both towards Friends and towards
the Establishment observable among the sectaries
Themselves intolerant persecutors when in power
Concurring causes why a hireling priesthood join to decry

a free Gospel ministry

The continual recurrence to outward rules, forms, and cere

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Political power, stipendiary office

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The "compulsory” and “ voluntary" systems compared . 186

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Deism directly opposed to "Quakerism" by the denial of immediate revelation

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The original principles of the Society of Friends exalt the

name of Jesus above every name

And especially assert the revelation of his Divine Spirit
Judge Meadowbank's impressive declaration

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To compare, and to estimate rightly, is no disparagement 202 Robert Barclay charged with disparagement

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Weak and untrue proposition of the Baptist Reviewer
A true, and a false, " Portraiture of Quakerism"

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TRUTH VINDICATED.

INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.

One

I WISH it to be distinctly understood, that the Society of Friends is in no way implicated in the views which I have thought it my duty to promulgate in the course of this work, any farther than my own opinion relative to the fundamental principles upon which the Society appears to me to have been originally based, can be considered to implicate them. I have consulted with no human being upon the subject; and was not aware, until within these few weeks, that any controversy" of the kind existed in the Society of Friends. reason is, I have been out of the way of it; and another, perhaps, may have operated, viz., that, knowing although an angel from heaven were to preach any other gospel than the gospel of Christ," that it could not be of God, I am not much disposed to heed the wind of any or every doctrine, by which he who builds his house upon the Rock of Ages," is continually liable to be assailed, in common with him who builds it on the sand. But whether we build upon that Rock or not, most certain it is that nothing can prevail

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