Robert Barclay Quotes

• He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual?

  Robert Barclay

  Spiritual, Art, Mean

  Robert Barclay, George Keith (1831). “Truth Triumphant Through the Spiritual Warfare, Christian Labours, and Writings of that Able and Faithful Servant of Jesus Christ, Robert Barclay,: To which is Prefixed, an Account of His Life”, p.15

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• Therefore 'Christ hath tasted death for every man:' not only for all kinds of men, as some vainly talk, but for every one, of all kinds; the benefit of whose offering is not only extended to such, who have the distinct outward knowledge of his death and sufferings, as the same is declared in the scriptures, but even unto those who are necessarily excluded from the benefit of this knowledge by some inevitable accident.

  Robert Barclay

  Men, Offering, Suffering

  Robert Barclay (1850). “An Apology for the Christian Divinity: As the Sameis Held Forth and Preached by the People Called, in Scorm Quakers, Being a Full Explanation and Vindication of Their Principles and Doctrines”, p.13

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• For when I came into the silent assemblies of God's people I felt a secret power among them which touched my heart; and as I gave way unto it I found the evil weakening in me and the good raised up

  Robert Barclay

  Heart, People, Evil

  Joseph Bancroft, Robert Barclay (1874). “A Persuasive to Unity: Setting Forth the Ground of that Source of Comfort in which Ground of a Clean Heart and a Right Spirit Men May Grow in Good and Firmly Support Each Other as Living Stones in the Temple of God”, p.124

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• Since we have placed justification in the revelation of Jesus Christ formed and brought forth in the heart, there working his works of righteousness and bringing forth the fruits of the Spirit.

  Robert Barclay

  Jesus, Heart, Fruits Of The Spirit

  Robert Barclay (1850). “An Apology for the Christian Divinity: As the Sameis Held Forth and Preached by the People Called, in Scorm Quakers, Being a Full Explanation and Vindication of Their Principles and Doctrines”, p.110

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• According to which principle or hypothesis all the objections against the universality of Christ's death are easily solved; neither is it needful to recur to the ministry of angels, and those other miraculous means which they say God useth to manifest the doctrine and history of Christ's passion unto such, who, living in the places of the world where the outward preaching of the Gospel is unknown, have well improved the first and common grace.

  Robert Barclay

  Mean, Angel, Passion

  Robert Barclay (1850). “An Apology for the Christian Divinity: As the Sameis Held Forth and Preached by the People Called, in Scorm Quakers, Being a Full Explanation and Vindication of Their Principles and Doctrines”, p.47

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• So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if they will not to punish them in their goods, liberties, or lives? this we hold in the negative.

  Robert Barclay

  Religious, Men, Umpires

  Robert Barclay (1850). “An Apology for the Christian Divinity: As the Sameis Held Forth and Preached by the People Called, in Scorm Quakers, Being a Full Explanation and Vindication of Their Principles and Doctrines”, p.230

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