Observations on the Sermons of Elias Hicks / In Several Letters to Him; With Some Introductory Remarks, Addressed to the Junior Members of the Society of Friends.

by Robert Waln

[55]. Sermons, page 17.

[56]. Sermons, page 76.

[57]. Sermons, page 275-6.—In one of his sermons, (page 292,) the preacher declares that God never set Jesus Christ above us, "because if he did he would be partial." In this, he sets himself above Christ by undertaking to correct his erroneous notion of heaven. Christ, in his Sermon on the Mount, says, "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven." This humble teacher says the proper expression would be "to be in possession of heaven, because heaven is a state, and every where, where God is."

[58]. Sermons, page 292.

[59]. Sermons, page 295.

[60]. Sermons, page 188.

[61]. Sermons, page 193.

[62]. Sermons, page 66.

[63].

As much you pull Religion's altars down,