Declaration of the Yearly Meeting of Friends Held in Philadelphia Respecting 1st
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A Declaration of the Yearly Meeting of Friends, Held in Philadelphia, Respecting the Proceedings of Those Who Have Lately Separated from the Society: And Also, Shewing the Contrast Between Their Doctrines and Those Held by Friends. 1828. Printed in Philadelphia by Thomas Kite.
Under the plausible pretext of exalting the light within. As the primary rule of faith and practice, he endeavoured to lessen the autho rity of the Hely Scriptures; and when he had greatly impfired the sentiments of reverence justly due to their divine testimony, he pro ceeded to speak of our blessed Saviour, as being merely an example er pattern to us, and denied that his death was an offering for the sins of mankind, except for the legal sins of the Jews, calling him the Jewish Messiah. Faithful, experienced Friends, who were os tablished in the doctrines of Christ and his apostles, and who saw the baneful consequences that must result from the promulgation of such opinions, were brought under much painful solicitude, for the preservation of the Society, as many were caught with the specious ness of his arguments, and the bold and confident manner with which be advanced them. Having proceeded further in avowing his dishe lief in our Lord Jesus Christ as the Saviour of men, publicly declar ing, that the same power that made him a Christian, must make us Christians; and that the same power that saved him, must save us; he Wasmgain privately laboured with, in order to convince him of his error; and upon being told that if he persisted in preaching these doc trineshs'o contrary to the scriptures, and the testimony of our ancient Friends, it would produce one of the greatest schisms that had ever happened in thesociety, he admitted that it would produce a schism.
A Declaration of the Yearly Meeting of Friends, Held in Philadelphia, Respecting the Proceedings of Those Who Have Lately Separated from the Society: And Also, Shewing the Contrast Between Their Doctrines and Those Held by Friends. 1828. Printed in Philadelphia by Thomas Kite.
Under the plausible pretext of exalting the light within. As the primary rule of faith and practice, he endeavoured to lessen the autho rity of the Hely Scriptures; and when he had greatly impfired the sentiments of reverence justly due to their divine testimony, he pro ceeded to speak of our blessed Saviour, as being merely an example er pattern to us, and denied that his death was an offering for the sins of mankind, except for the legal sins of the Jews, calling him the Jewish Messiah. Faithful, experienced Friends, who were os tablished in the doctrines of Christ and his apostles, and who saw the baneful consequences that must result from the promulgation of such opinions, were brought under much painful solicitude, for the preservation of the Society, as many were caught with the specious ness of his arguments, and the bold and confident manner with which be advanced them. Having proceeded further in avowing his dishe lief in our Lord Jesus Christ as the Saviour of men, publicly declar ing, that the same power that made him a Christian, must make us Christians; and that the same power that saved him, must save us; he Wasmgain privately laboured with, in order to convince him of his error; and upon being told that if he persisted in preaching these doc trineshs'o contrary to the scriptures, and the testimony of our ancient Friends, it would produce one of the greatest schisms that had ever happened in thesociety, he admitted that it would produce a schism.
A Declaration of the Yearly Meeting of Friends, Held in Philadelphia, Respecting the Proceedings of Those Who Have Lately Separated from the Society: And Also, Shewing the Contrast Between Their Doctrines and Those Held by Friends. 1828. Printed in Philadelphia by Thomas Kite.
Under the plausible pretext of exalting the light within. As the primary rule of faith and practice, he endeavoured to lessen the autho rity of the Hely Scriptures; and when he had greatly impfired the sentiments of reverence justly due to their divine testimony, he pro ceeded to speak of our blessed Saviour, as being merely an example er pattern to us, and denied that his death was an offering for the sins of mankind, except for the legal sins of the Jews, calling him the Jewish Messiah. Faithful, experienced Friends, who were os tablished in the doctrines of Christ and his apostles, and who saw the baneful consequences that must result from the promulgation of such opinions, were brought under much painful solicitude, for the preservation of the Society, as many were caught with the specious ness of his arguments, and the bold and confident manner with which be advanced them. Having proceeded further in avowing his dishe lief in our Lord Jesus Christ as the Saviour of men, publicly declar ing, that the same power that made him a Christian, must make us Christians; and that the same power that saved him, must save us; he Wasmgain privately laboured with, in order to convince him of his error; and upon being told that if he persisted in preaching these doc trineshs'o contrary to the scriptures, and the testimony of our ancient Friends, it would produce one of the greatest schisms that had ever happened in thesociety, he admitted that it would produce a schism.