Sketches of Eminent Methodist MinistersJohn McClintock Carlton & Phillips, 1854 - 370 pages |
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... called to encounter prejudices , to have met them with prejudices as virulent of his own . Into such a home as all this bespeaks , needy but not sordid , poverty - stricken yet garnished by high principle and dogged resolution , full of ...
... called to encounter prejudices , to have met them with prejudices as virulent of his own . Into such a home as all this bespeaks , needy but not sordid , poverty - stricken yet garnished by high principle and dogged resolution , full of ...
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... called the Church of England , nor object so much to the imposition of a particular prayer- book , as to any prayer - book at all , being in fact Presby- terians and Independents . But here , alike free from the infirmities of Aletharch ...
... called the Church of England , nor object so much to the imposition of a particular prayer- book , as to any prayer - book at all , being in fact Presby- terians and Independents . But here , alike free from the infirmities of Aletharch ...
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... called to do , through a lengthened period of experimental obscurity , " working out his salva- tion with fear and trembling , " we nevertheless cannot point to any moment in his spiritual history in which he was not a child of God ...
... called to do , through a lengthened period of experimental obscurity , " working out his salva- tion with fear and trembling , " we nevertheless cannot point to any moment in his spiritual history in which he was not a child of God ...
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... called him , and felt himself called by his strong sense of the need of some extraordinary means to awaken the sleeping population of the country to overleap the barriers of clerical courtesy and ecclesiastical law , invading parish ...
... called him , and felt himself called by his strong sense of the need of some extraordinary means to awaken the sleeping population of the country to overleap the barriers of clerical courtesy and ecclesiastical law , invading parish ...
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... called to endure . Although the refinement of a century has done much to crush the coarser forms of per- secution , it must not be forgotten that the early ministers of Methodism were called to encounter physical quite as frequently as ...
... called to endure . Although the refinement of a century has done much to crush the coarser forms of per- secution , it must not be forgotten that the early ministers of Methodism were called to encounter physical quite as frequently as ...
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Page 57 - I'LL praise my Maker with my breath ; And when my voice is lost in death, Praise shall employ my nobler powers : My days of praise shall ne'er be past, While life, and thought, and being last, Or immortality endures.
Page 122 - Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?
Page 285 - For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Page 41 - I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me, High mountains are a feeling...
Page 36 - Such a society is no other than " a company of men having the form and seeking the power of godliness, united in order to pray together, to receive the word of exhortation, and to watch over one another in love, that they may help each other to work out their salvation.
Page 299 - But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.
Page 46 - Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud ! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!
Page 225 - Lord King's account of the primitive Church convinced me, many years ago, that bishops and presbyters are the same order, and consequently have the same right to ordain.
Page 27 - Instantly I resolved to dedicate all my life to God, all my thoughts, and words, and actions: being thoroughly convinced, there was no medium; but that every part of my life (not some only) must either be a sacrifice to God, or myself, that is, in effect, to the devil.
Page 273 - My God is reconciled ; His pardoning voice I hear : He owns me for his child ; I can no longer fear: With confidence I now draw nigh, And, "Father, Abba, Father,