Letters of Martha Smith: With a Short Memoir of Her Life

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Piercy and Reed, Printers, 1844 - 228 páginas
Martha Smith was born in Plumstead, Bucks County, Pennsylvania on February 8, 1787 to Josiah and Deborah Brown and was a member of the Society of Friends. As an adult she became a minister of the Society traveling extensively throughout the midwest.
 

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Página 187 - ... avarice : verily, these righteousnesses have their reward ; but in respect to a final acceptation with the Supreme Being, they ought only to be esteemed as filthy rags : our dependence ought only to be on " the blood of the everlasting covenant," and interior operations of the Spirit that worketh in us, both to will and to do, according to his own good pleasure.
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