Primitive Christianity Revived, Again
I recently got my own copy of "Elias Hicks: Quaker Liberal," a book I borrowed from my university's library but did not finish before graduating and returning the book. On page 186, it says that the last page of Hicks' home journal finally answered a question both Friends and non-Friends frequently asked: what is required of a Christian? His answer has 3 parts.
This was in January 1819.
Thanks for this, Mackenzie. The second part of the answer struck me as the one Hicks's spiritual descendants would find most irrelevant: the necessity for "a crucifixion of the old man, with all his ungodly deeds." Yet, without this dying to the self, "the old man"(the first Adam) remains, and the new creation in Christ (the second Adam) goes unrealized, and God unknown.
As Jesus says in Mark 13: "he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved."
Thanks for sharing this. I'm going to have to read the book.
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