Excerpt from The Friends' Library, Vol. 13: Comprising Journals, Doctrinal Treatises, and Other Writings of Members of the Religious Society of Friends; Containing an Account of Richard Davies, Life of Mary Alexander, Memoirs of David Hall, Memoir of Samuel Crisp We were diligent in searching the scriptures, which was good in its place; but the main mat ter and substance of pure religion, is the enjoy ment of eternal life to the soul from Christ. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.