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An exposition of the faith of the Religious Society of Friends
An exposition of the faith of the Religious Society of Friends Author:Thomas Evans Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 25 SECTION II. On the Divinity and Offices of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. There is scarcely any article of Christian doctrine, in which the So... more »ciety of Friends have more fully or repeatedly declared their sincere belief, than in the proper divinity of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. They have uniformly testified that he was the Word of God, spoken of by the Evangelist John, by whom the world and all things else were made; who was with God in the beginning, and who was, and is, over all, God blessed for ever, Amen. They believe that in the fulness of time, this eternal " Word was made flesh," and dwelt among men in the person of our Lord Jesus Christ, who was conceived by the Holy Ghost and born of the Virgin Mary, at " Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of Herod the king;" concerning whom the angels declared to the shepherds who " were keeping watch over their flocks by night," "unto you is born this day in the city of David, a Saviour which is Christ the Lord." That he went about doing good to the bodies and souls of men; preaching the gospel of salvation, and giving eternal life to as many as believed on him—that he wrought many mighty miracles, and gave other infallible proofs that he was the promised Messiah, the true Christ, the Son and sent of God, the Redeemer and Saviour of the world, one with the Father, agreeably to his own blessed declarations. They also believe that this same Lord Jesus Christ, was betrayed into the hands of his cruel enemies by Judas Iscariot; falsely accused by the Jews; condemned and crucified under Pontius Pilate, and his body laid in the sepulchre of Joseph of Arimathea. That he rose from the dead onthe third day, in conformity with his previous declaration —" destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up"—tar...« less