| Mary Sturge Gretton - 1902 - 328 דפים
...naturalist, and all of God Almighty's making — in his behaviour civil beyond all forms of breeding, a discerner of others' spirits and very much a master of his own.' Henceforth his absorbing desire was to see his fellow men released from the bondage of convention and... | |
| George Fox - 1903 - 326 דפים
...divine, as they appeared in his converse with his brethren and in the church of God, take as follows. I. He was a man that God endowed with a clear and wonderful...others' spirits, and very much a master of his own. And though the side of his understanding which lay next to the world, and especially the expression... | |
| George Fox - 1903 - 556 דפים
...consolation. The most awful, living, reverent frame I ever felt or beheld, I must say, was his in prayer. He was of an innocent life, no busy-body, nor selfseeker, neither touchy, nor critical ; what fell from him was very inoffensive, if not very edifying. So meek, contented, modest, easy,... | |
| Charles Frederick Holder - 1913 - 726 דפים
...foreign countries; and I can say I never saw him out of his place, or not a match for every occasion. "He was of an innocent life, no busy-body, nor self-seeker,...neither touchy nor critical. So meek, contented, modest, easy, steady, tender, it was a pleasure to be in his company. A most merciful man, as ready to forgive... | |
| Louis Thomas Jones - 1914 - 384 דפים
...influence boldly against ecclesiasticism, he soon became one of the most powerful preachers of the day. He was a man that God endowed with a clear and wonderful...others' spirits, and very much a master of his own. . . . And his ministry and writings show they are from one that was not taught of man, nor had learned... | |
| Douglas Van Steere - 1984 - 354 דפים
...Penn 's Preface to the Original Edstion of George Fox's Journal, 1694} HE WAS A MAN that God endued with a clear and wonderful depth, a discerner of others' spirits, and very much a master of his own. And though the side of his understanding which lay next to the world, and especially the expression... | |
| Gordon Mursell - 2001 - 572 דפים
...Quaker piety.843 His great colleague William Penn ( 1 644- 1718) described him as 'a man that God endued with a clear and wonderful depth, a discerner of others' spirits, and very much a master of his own',844 and as someone with an outstanding gift for prayer: The inwardness and weight of his spirit,... | |
| William Penn, Paul Buckley - 2003 - 434 דפים
...natural, moral, and divine — both in his interactions with other people and in the Church of God. I. He was a man that God endowed with a clear and wonderful spiritual depth — a discerner of others' Spirits and very much a master of his own Spirit. And, though... | |
| Jean Toomer - 1996 - 162 דפים
...them and give others a sense of the substance and flavor of George Fox. He was a man that God endued with a clear and wonderful depth; a discerner of others' spirits, and very much a master of his own. As to man he was an original, being no man's copy. The most aweful, living, reverent frame I ever felt... | |
| John William Graham - 468 דפים
...from this considered judgment of one who knew him through and through: He was a man that God endued with a clear and wonderful depth, a discerner of others' spirits, and very much a master of his own. And though the side of his understanding which lay next to the world, and especially the expression... | |
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