Review Of A Letter From Elias Hicks To Dr N Shoemaker

Author : Elias Hicks
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780259469896
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (698 download)

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Download or read book Review of a Letter from Elias Hicks to Dr. N. Shoemaker (Classic Reprint) written by Elias Hicks and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Review of a Letter From Elias Hicks to Dr. N. Shoemaker But the primitive Christian Church having soon after the apostles' days, turned away from the true and only sufficient guide, the Spirit of Truth, that Jesus commanded his disci ples to wait for, and not attempt to do any thing until they had received it, but assured them that when they had received it, it would be a complete and sufiicient rule, without the addition of any other thing, as it would lead them and guide them in all truth. And to its sufficiency, John, the beloved apostle, bore this noble and exalted testimony, in full accordance with his Divine Master, in this emphatic language to his fellow believ ers Ye have an unction from the Holy One, and need not that any man teach you, but as the same anointing teacheth you, which is truth, and is no lie. But the believers, by too much looking to their old traditions, soon lost sight of or ne gleeted fully to attend, as they ought to have done, to their inward guide, turned their attention outward to the letter, which always killeth those who lean upon it as a rule. Hence, the successors of those meek and self-denying followers of the example and commands of Jesus, apostatised from the simpli city of the Gospel, by which the unity was broken, and they soon became divided into sects and parties, and persecuted each other; and invented and promulgated inconsistent and unsound doctrines, such as original sin, certifying that all Adam's offspring was condemned to eternal punishment for one mis-step of our first parents; for they don't appear to have been guilty of but one failure, and that it appears they made satisfaction for at the time of their first arraignment by their benevolent creator, manifesting sorrow and repentance: which seems to be fairly implied by the sequel of the interview be tween them for it is said he clothed them with coats of skin, to hide their nakedness, which is an emblem of durable cloth ing, and as their nakedness was not an outward one, but a nakedness of soul, not being able to conceal their sin from the all-penetrating Eye of Divine Justice, so when he had brought them, through conviction, to see their error and repent of it, he was reconciled to them, and clothed them again with his Holy Spirit. 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.