Sketches of Eminent Methodist MinistersJohn McClintock Carlton & Phillips, 1854 - 370 pages |
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... discourse , says one who was privileged to hear it , " was worthy of gray hairs and broadcloth . " In fact , the whole congregation were perfectly amazed at the eloquence of his appeal- its propriety of language and its force of ...
... discourse , says one who was privileged to hear it , " was worthy of gray hairs and broadcloth . " In fact , the whole congregation were perfectly amazed at the eloquence of his appeal- its propriety of language and its force of ...
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... discourse , " became wine and fat things to the religious part of his audience . " With some of his own people , however , he was not so popular . His love of order and decorum , and his natural good taste , revolted from practices ...
... discourse , " became wine and fat things to the religious part of his audience . " With some of his own people , however , he was not so popular . His love of order and decorum , and his natural good taste , revolted from practices ...
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... discourses were didactic , and at the same time hortatory and pathetic . His manner in the pulpit was the same as ... discourse of thrilling eloquence , of melt- ing tenderness , and deep and heavenly feeling . It was preached on ...
... discourses were didactic , and at the same time hortatory and pathetic . His manner in the pulpit was the same as ... discourse of thrilling eloquence , of melt- ing tenderness , and deep and heavenly feeling . It was preached on ...
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... an oracle in these respects ; and his opinions are regarded with profound veneration . As a theologian and divine , his views were comprehensive , logical , and well - matured . His discourses were an 188 ELIJAH HEDDING .
... an oracle in these respects ; and his opinions are regarded with profound veneration . As a theologian and divine , his views were comprehensive , logical , and well - matured . His discourses were an 188 ELIJAH HEDDING .
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John McClintock. cal , and well - matured . His discourses were an example of neatness , order , perspicuity , and completeness . He had a most tenacious memory . His mind was richly stored with incident and anecdote , as well as with ...
John McClintock. cal , and well - matured . His discourses were an example of neatness , order , perspicuity , and completeness . He had a most tenacious memory . His mind was richly stored with incident and anecdote , as well as with ...
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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 10 - 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.