Sketches of Eminent Methodist MinistersJohn McClintock Carlton & Phillips, 1854 - 370 pages |
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... episcopacy , shot into seed in the unhealthy luxuriance of hyper - Calvinism , or was too insignificant to be of any account whatever in an ecclesiastical notice of the period . The general condition of the Church of England was ...
... episcopacy , shot into seed in the unhealthy luxuriance of hyper - Calvinism , or was too insignificant to be of any account whatever in an ecclesiastical notice of the period . The general condition of the Church of England was ...
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... episcopacy resting on Bishop M'Kendree . The General Conference of 1816 met at Baltimore , and found the Church with only one bishop , and his health greatly impaired , although he was still able to perform the duties of his office ...
... episcopacy resting on Bishop M'Kendree . The General Conference of 1816 met at Baltimore , and found the Church with only one bishop , and his health greatly impaired , although he was still able to perform the duties of his office ...
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... Episcopacy also proposed the follow- ing resolution , which passed unanimously : - " That Bishop M'Kendree be , and hereby is , respect- fully requested to continue to afford what aid he can to the episcopacy , consistently with his age ...
... Episcopacy also proposed the follow- ing resolution , which passed unanimously : - " That Bishop M'Kendree be , and hereby is , respect- fully requested to continue to afford what aid he can to the episcopacy , consistently with his age ...
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... episcopacy was becoming so burden- some that it seemed proper to increase the number of bishops , or refrain from adding to their labours . Bishops M'Kendree , Roberts , and Soule presented the following paper to the Conference ...
... episcopacy was becoming so burden- some that it seemed proper to increase the number of bishops , or refrain from adding to their labours . Bishops M'Kendree , Roberts , and Soule presented the following paper to the Conference ...
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... episcopacy , they unanimously recommended to the Conference the adoption of the following resolutions , viz.:— " Resolved , & c . , That whenever , in any Annual Con- ference , there shall be a vacancy or vacancies in the office of ...
... episcopacy , they unanimously recommended to the Conference the adoption of the following resolutions , viz.:— " Resolved , & c . , That whenever , in any Annual Con- ference , there shall be a vacancy or vacancies in the office of ...
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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,