But above all he excelled in prayer. The inwardness and weight of his spirit, the reverence and solemnity of his address and behaviour, and the fewness and fulness of his words, have often struck even strangers with admiration, as they used to reach others... The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 3761927Full view - About this book
| Christianity - 1864 - 626 pages
...of the picture, and see what Penn, a scholar and a gentleman, says of this utterer of gibberish. " The inwardness and weight of his spirit, the reverence...of his address and behaviour, and the fewness and fulness of his words" (in another passage, quoted by Macaulay, p. 29, Penn speaks of Fox's " sentences... | |
| Charles Beard - 1864 - 638 pages
...of the picture, and see what Penn, a scholar and a gentleman, says of this utterer of gibberish. " The inwardness and weight of his spirit, the reverence...of his address and behaviour, and the fewness and fulness of his words" (in another passage, quoted by Macaulay, p. 29, Penn speaks of Fox's " sentences... | |
| Samuel Rowles Pattison - Great Britain - 1864 - 394 pages
...greatness. The life which he lived was a life of faith. How grand is Penn's testimony concerning him !— "The inwardness and weight of his spirit, the reverence...of his address and behaviour, and the fewness and. fulness of his words, have often struck even strangers with admiration, as they used to reach others... | |
| 1879 - 692 pages
...only bear to be often considered, but the more it was so the more weighty and instructive it appeared But, above all, he excelled in prayer ; the inwardness...of his address and behaviour, and the fewness and fulness of his words, have often struck even strangers with admiration, as they used to reach others... | |
| William Tallack - Baptists - 1868 - 242 pages
...succulent man." Penn also says of him, " his very presence expressed a religious majesty." He adds : " The inwardness and weight of his spirit, the reverence...of his address and behaviour, and the fewness and fulness of his words, have often struck even strangers with admiration, as they used to reach others... | |
| William Tallack - Baptists - 1868 - 246 pages
...presence expressed a religious majesty." He adds : " The inwardness and weight of his spirit, the L reverence and solemnity of his address and behaviour, and the fewness and fulness of his words, have often struck even strangers with admiration, as they used to reach others... | |
| William Beck - Society of Friends - 1877 - 154 pages
...he had received of Christ, and which was his own experience, in that which never errs nor fails. V. But above all he excelled in prayer. The inwardness...of his address and behaviour, and the fewness and fulness of his words, have often struck, even strangers, with admiration, as they used to reach others... | |
| William Beck - Society of Friends - 1877 - 158 pages
...which was his own experience, in that which never errs nor fails. V. But above all he excelled iii prayer. The inwardness and weight of his spirit, the...of his address and behaviour, and the fewness and fulness of his words, have often struck, even strangers, with admiration, as they used to reach others... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 430 pages
...extraordinary gift of expounding the Scriptures, but that above all he 44 BREAD REFORM. excelled in prayer. The reverence and solemnity of his address and behaviour, and the fewness and fulness of his words, often struck strangers with admiration." He also speaks in high terms of his... | |
| George Fox - Quakers - 189? - 358 pages
...the mind, harmony, and fulfilling of them with much plainness, and to great comfort and edification. But above all, he excelled in prayer. The inwardness...of his address and behaviour, and the fewness and fulness of his words have often struck even strangers with admiration, as they used to reach others... | |
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