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
| 1881 - 674 pages
...His friend and disciple, William Penn, says, that ' his very presence expressed a religious majesty. The inwardness and weight of his spirit, the reverence...address and behaviour, and the fewness and fullness of hia words have often struck even strangers with admiration, as they used to reach others with consolation.... | |
| William Hodgson - Quakers - 1881 - 428 pages
...that which he had received of Christ, and was his own experience, in that which never errs nor fails. But above all, he excelled in prayer. The inwardness...spirit, the reverence and solemnity of his address and behavior, and the fewness and fulness of his words, have often struck even strangers with admiration,... | |
| Thomas Ellwood Longshore - Society of Friends - 1881 - 308 pages
...great movement. This made his ejaculations ardent, earnest, concise and impassioned. William Penu says: "The inwardness and weight of his spirit, the reverence and solemnity of his address and behavior, and the fewness and ft'llness of his words, have often struck even strangers with admiration."... | |
| Thomas Pym Cope - Religion - 1882 - 526 pages
...that which he had received oi Christ, aud was his own experience in that which never errs nor fails. But above all he excelled in prayer. The inwardness...spirit, the reverence and solemnity of his address and behavior, and the fewness and fulness of his words, have often struck even strangers with admiration,... | |
| William Penn - 1882 - 524 pages
...that which he had received of Christ, and was his own experience in that which never errs nor fails. But above all he excelled in prayer. The inwardness...spirit, the reverence and solemnity of his address and behavior, and the fewness and fulness of his words, have often struck even strangers with admiration,... | |
| Johann Jakob Herzog - Christian biography - 1883 - 886 pages
...***), ЬезеЕфпе1 ju werben anfing. *) ftanff, ©e|(Ç. Çnglanb«, III, 500. **) Above all be excelled in prayer. The inwardness, and weight of...of his address and behaviour, and the fewness and fulness of his words, bave often struck, even strangers, with admiration as they used to reach others... | |
| Johann Jakob Herzog - 1883 - 818 pages
...felbft nann= ten ***), Ье4е(фпе1 ju werben anfing. *) 3tanfe, ®е|ф. Cnglanb«, III, 500. *') Above all he excelled in prayer. The inwardness, and weight of his spirit, tbe reverence and solemnity of bis address and behaviour, and the fewness and fulness of his words,... | |
| Augustus Charles Bickley - 1884 - 458 pages
...not feel in what he considered the right spirit. "Above all," says William Penn in his "Testimony," "he excelled in prayer. The inwardness and weight of his spirit, the reverence and solemnity and weight of his address and behaviour, the fewness and fulness of his words, have often struck even... | |
| J. F. M. - Society of Friends - 1889 - 36 pages
...nor the individual can ever outgrow the blessed duty of prayer. Wm. Penn said of George Fox that " above all he excelled in prayer — the inwardness and weight of his spirit, the solemnity of his address and behaviour, the fewness and fulness of his words have often struck even... | |
| Thomas Hodgkin - Friends Peace and International Relations Committee - 1896 - 344 pages
...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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