Sketches of Eminent Methodist MinistersJohn McClintock Carlton & Phillips, 1854 - 370 pages |
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... give , " and passing the sounding sea and the dismal marsh , lofty Terracina and lowly Fondi , at length tops the range that encloses the Campagna southward , what object is it chiefly arrests the eye ? In that great ocean of a JOHN ...
... give , " and passing the sounding sea and the dismal marsh , lofty Terracina and lowly Fondi , at length tops the range that encloses the Campagna southward , what object is it chiefly arrests the eye ? In that great ocean of a JOHN ...
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... gives it in his Itinerary . Its value , however , was so obvious to the eyes of both natives and foreigners , that a charter to drain . this whole country side was given to Cornelius Vermuy- den in the time of the Stuarts , and the ...
... gives it in his Itinerary . Its value , however , was so obvious to the eyes of both natives and foreigners , that a charter to drain . this whole country side was given to Cornelius Vermuy- den in the time of the Stuarts , and the ...
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... give them a little food , clothes , or physic , as they want ? " If they can read , may we not give them a Bible or a Prayer - Book , or a Whole Duty of Man ? May we not inquire now and then how they have used them , explain what they ...
... give them a little food , clothes , or physic , as they want ? " If they can read , may we not give them a Bible or a Prayer - Book , or a Whole Duty of Man ? May we not inquire now and then how they have used them , explain what they ...
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... give to them who appear to want it most a little money , or clothes , or physic ? " Such is their apology — a probe for the conscience , which searches the latent wound , but only searches to heal - a promptuary of every good word and ...
... give to them who appear to want it most a little money , or clothes , or physic ? " Such is their apology — a probe for the conscience , which searches the latent wound , but only searches to heal - a promptuary of every good word and ...
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... gives revealed religion its only chance of survival in the world . To forget it is practically to abolish the distinction between error and truth , between right and wrong . There is no heresy more destructive than a bad life . To class ...
... gives revealed religion its only chance of survival in the world . To forget it is practically to abolish the distinction between error and truth , between right and wrong . There is no heresy more destructive than a bad life . To class ...
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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,