| American literature - 1924 - 702 pages
...religious experience as he walked through the Midlands. In 1643, the Lord, he tells us, said to him: "Thou seest how young people go together into vanity and old people into the earth; thou must forsake all, both young and old, and keep out of all, and be a stranger unto all." This,... | |
| Alfred Clair Underwood - Conversion - 1925 - 294 pages
...down his chamber, praying and crying to the Lord. Then a voice spoke in his heart, saying to him : ' Thou seest how young people go together into vanity,...people into the earth ; and thou must forsake all ... and be as a stranger unto all.' ' Then,' says Fox, ' at the command of God, on the ninth day of... | |
| Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - Authorship - 1926 - 234 pages
...sleep, but sometimes walked up and down and sometimes prayed, and cried to the Lord, who said to me, ' Thou seest how young people go together into vanity...keep out of all, and be as a stranger unto all'." Or his inquiries among ministers of religion : — " I went to another ancient priest at Mancetter... | |
| George Patterson Donehoo - Pennsylvania - 1926 - 562 pages
...sleep, but sometimes walked up and down, and sometimes prayed and cried to the Lord, who said unto me. 'Thou seest how young people go together into vanity and old people into the earth ; thou must forsake all, both young and old, and keep out of all, and be a stranger unto all.' Then,... | |
| Gordon S. Wakefield - Religion - 1983 - 424 pages
...profound disillusion with the forms of religion he saw around him, and with those who professed them. 'Young people go together into vanity and old people into the earth.' After a time of 'sorrows and troubles', during which he abandoned corporate worship 'walking solitary... | |
| H. Larry Ingle - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 420 pages
...life. He would have to remain separate from the world and its people. "Thou seest," he sensed clearly, "how young people go together into vanity and old...and keep out of all, and be as a stranger unto all." 67 Fox's experience, the outward events conditioning the inward measuring, amounted to a turning point... | |
| Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos, Îlānā K. Ben-ʿĀmôs - Family & Relationships - 1994 - 366 pages
...and cried to the Lord, who said unto me, "Thou seest how young people go together into vanity . . . thou must forsake all, both young and old, and keep out of all, and be a stranger unto all."' Journal of George Fox (7th ed. 1852), ed. W. Armistead, 50. 33. BRO, Orders... | |
| F. Regina Psaki, Charles Hindley - Religion - 2001 - 394 pages
...villages of the Midlands, clothed in a suit of skins he had made himself. A voice had led him to set out: "Thou seest how young people go together into vanity...all, both young and old, and keep out of all, and be a stranger unto all" (J 3). This is how he described himself in his diary in those years of seeking... | |
| George Fox, Norman Penney, William Penn - 1962 - 852 pages
...sleep, but sometimes walked up and down, and sometimes prayed and cried to the Lord, who said unto me, ' Thou seest how young people go together into vanity...and keep out of all, and be as a stranger unto all.' Then, at the command of God, on the 9th day of the Seventh Month [September],3 1643, I left my relations... | |
| 1920 - 600 pages
...but sometimes walked up and down, and sometimes prayed and cried to the Lord," Who said unto him, " Thou seest how young people go together into vanity, and old people into the earth ; thou must forsake all, both young and old, and keep out of all, and be as a stranger unto all." Then... | |
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