Sketches of Eminent Methodist MinistersJohn McClintock Carlton & Phillips, 1854 - 370 pages |
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... respect - hypoc- risy , and love of notoriety . But observers could have borne even with these defects better than with what they found in the enthusiastic objects of their dislike - earnest practical godliness , which intimidation ...
... respect - hypoc- risy , and love of notoriety . But observers could have borne even with these defects better than with what they found in the enthusiastic objects of their dislike - earnest practical godliness , which intimidation ...
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... respects its glory . The greater part of the clergy would have been unfitted for the work he would have allotted them , even had they not been hampered by the trammels of ecclesiastical usage . This usage properly assigns a fixed ...
... respects its glory . The greater part of the clergy would have been unfitted for the work he would have allotted them , even had they not been hampered by the trammels of ecclesiastical usage . This usage properly assigns a fixed ...
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... her father's decision , and take her place for life on the other side , cannot be supposed to have been wanting in firmness ; who , further , would never renounce her Jacobite respect for the jus divinum of the JOHN WESLEY . 53.
... her father's decision , and take her place for life on the other side , cannot be supposed to have been wanting in firmness ; who , further , would never renounce her Jacobite respect for the jus divinum of the JOHN WESLEY . 53.
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John McClintock. renounce her Jacobite respect for the jus divinum of the Stuart kings , nor say amen to her husband's prayers for him of the Revolution , nor bow beneath the thousand ills of her married life , and pursued the onward ...
John McClintock. renounce her Jacobite respect for the jus divinum of the Stuart kings , nor say amen to her husband's prayers for him of the Revolution , nor bow beneath the thousand ills of her married life , and pursued the onward ...
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... respect for hoar hairs grown gray in the service of the Church , and Christian and family ties of more than ordi- nary strength - all put before him in a strain of uncommon force and pathos by his father in his final appeal . He was But ...
... respect for hoar hairs grown gray in the service of the Church , and Christian and family ties of more than ordi- nary strength - all put before him in a strain of uncommon force and pathos by his father in his final appeal . He was But ...
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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,