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It is unnecessary to follow up the history in any detail.It will not, however, be inferred that enthusiasm, as bag chanel wallet the word was then commonly understood, scarcely existed.There is nothing to forbid a close union of the most intensely human and personal elements of Christian faith with that refined and pervading sense of a present life giving Spirit which was faithfully borne witness to by Quakers when it was feeblest and most neglected elsewhere.Their further influence may, perhaps, be traced through Francke on Count Zinzendorf and the Moravians, and through Wolff on the mystic bag chanel wallet rationalism of later Germany.Whatever be its particular type, it represents the protest of the human soul against all that obscures the spirituality of belief.On this ground it comes into close relation with the history bag chanel wallet of the English Church.'If,' answers Leslie, 'he thought it might, then it follows that he was mistaken, and consequently that what he wrote was not truth and so not only the authority of this Epistle, but of all the Epistles, and of all the rest of the New Testament, will fall to the ground.Kahlman protested that he had learnt more from him than he could bag chanel wallet have learnt from all the wise men of his age together.It will be readily understood, therefore, upon how great a variety of grounds that protest may be based, how right and reasonable it may sometimes be, but also how easily it may itself run into excess, and how quickly the understanding may lose its bearings, when once, for fear of the abuse, it begins to dispense with what was not intended to check, but to guide and regulate the aspirations of the Spirit.' Bishop Warburton also refers bag chanel wallet to him in the most unqualified terms of contempt.and loving to follow righteousness, are by the secret touches of the holy light in their souls enlivened and quickened, thereby secretly united to God, and thereby become true members of this Catholic Church.Lastly, his fervent love of liberty indisposed him to admissions which might seem to countenance authority over the consciences of men on the bag chanel wallet part of any who should assert special claims to spiritual illumination.It was well that the special dangers to which Quakerism and other bag chanel wallet forms of mysticism are liable should be brought clearly and openly into view.A remark of Boswell's in 1776, that many a man was a Quaker without his knowing it, could scarcely have been made in the corresponding year of the previous century.