Sketches of Eminent Methodist MinistersJohn McClintock Carlton & Phillips, 1854 - 370 pages |
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... Lord charged home , and chambered in the heart by the impulse of an earnest query - a thema con variazione , making melody in the heart unto the Lord while breathing deep - toned benevolence toward man . If ever Church originated in an ...
... Lord charged home , and chambered in the heart by the impulse of an earnest query - a thema con variazione , making melody in the heart unto the Lord while breathing deep - toned benevolence toward man . If ever Church originated in an ...
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... Lord to secure admission to the marriage supper of the Lamb , and Church organization to draft men collectively to heaven by simple virtue of its corporate existence . These delusions , whereby souls are beguiled to their eternal wrong ...
... Lord to secure admission to the marriage supper of the Lamb , and Church organization to draft men collectively to heaven by simple virtue of its corporate existence . These delusions , whereby souls are beguiled to their eternal wrong ...
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... Lord of the kingdom can admit to the privilege of the kingdom , but at the same time it is well to make inquiry of him who keeps the door . John was only the bridegroom's friend , the herald of better things to come ; yet " Jerusalem ...
... Lord of the kingdom can admit to the privilege of the kingdom , but at the same time it is well to make inquiry of him who keeps the door . John was only the bridegroom's friend , the herald of better things to come ; yet " Jerusalem ...
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... Lord of hosts . This truth was grievously lost sight of in Wesley's days , sunk in the tide of cold morality that inundated the land and consigned it to a theosophy less spiritual than that of Socrates or Plato . But up from the depths ...
... Lord of hosts . This truth was grievously lost sight of in Wesley's days , sunk in the tide of cold morality that inundated the land and consigned it to a theosophy less spiritual than that of Socrates or Plato . But up from the depths ...
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... was The Society , and in other forms and subdivisions , bands , classes , & c . , but in essence it was the same ; it was the union and communion of the Lord's people for common edification and the glory of Christ . As soon JOHN WESLEY .
... was The Society , and in other forms and subdivisions , bands , classes , & c . , but in essence it was the same ; it was the union and communion of the Lord's people for common edification and the glory of Christ . As soon JOHN WESLEY .
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Page 125 - Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?
Page 61 - 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 289 - 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 43 - I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me, High mountains are a feeling...
Page 38 - 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 46 - Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud ! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!
Page 11 - For here the patriarchal days are not A pastoral fable— pipes in the liberal air, Mix'd with the sweet bells of the sauntering herd; My soul would drink those echoes. Oh, that I were The viewless spirit of a lovely sound, A living voice, a breathing harmony, A bodiless enjoyment— born and dying With the blest tone which made me!
Page 229 - 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 37 - THE visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in the which the pure Word of God is preached, and the Sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.
Page 277 - 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 ! cry.