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Elias Hicks Biography

Elias Hicks (March 19, 1748 – February 27, 1830) was a traveling Quaker minister from Long Island, New York. In his ministry he promoted unorthodox doctrines that led to controversy, which inevitably caused the first major schism within the Religious Society of Friends. Elias Hicks was the older cousin of the painter Edward Hicks.

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To the Jews only, and not to the Gentiles, was a Saviour promised.

Gentiles, Jew, Promised, Saviour

That I feel a desire, my friends, that we in this latter day of the world, in which light is fast spreading, that we should be willing to attend to those portions of the Scriptures of truth that direct us home to the foundation.

Desire, Home, Light, Truth

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

Delight, Eugenics, Lost, Mysterious

But if we continue in sin, and rebel and harden our hearts, we shall become so inured and fixed in it, that it will be natural, and we shall choose it from time to time.

Choose, Heart, Rebel, Sin, Time

You are never tempted by a devil without you, but by a devil within you.

Devil, Tempted, Without You

O that our hearts were enlarged in love to God, that we might turn inward, to the blessed comforter, that the blessed Jesus said the Father would send.

Blessed, Father, God, Hearts, Inward, Jesus

The fulness of the godhead dwelt in every blade of grass.

Blade, Blades, Blades Of Grass, Dwelt, Fulness, Grass

Just as a son, to be a son of man, must be of the same nature and spirit of his father; so with the sons of God, and so it will be with all who are born of the spirit of God.

Father, Man, Men, Same, Son

People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation.

Ceased, Earth, Ignorance, Men, Talk, Talking

What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the truth in our own hearts.

Apostle, Come, Encouragement, Heart, Might, Truth

And the law of God is written in every heart, and it is there that he manifests himself; And in infinite love, according to our necessities, states, conditions. And as we are all various and different from one another, more or less, so the law by the immediate operation of divine grace in the soul, is suited to every individual according to his condition.

Grace, Heart, Immediate, Law, Love, Written

And yet you see the weakness of external evidence-and outward miracles; they were not sufficient to make true believers, or to make the Israelites believe that Jesus was their promised Messiah.

Believe, Jesus, Messiah, Miracle, Miracles

. . . the more strictly and faithfully every man and woman lives up to the guidance and teaching of this Inward Anointing - and never turns aside to the right hand or left for the precepts and traditions of men - the more instruction and help they afford one another.

Guidance, Hands, Lives, Men, Teaching, Traditions