Sketches of Eminent Methodist MinistersJohn McClintock Carlton & Phillips, 1854 - 370 pages |
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... class predilections , or unso- cial partialities , save that his high sense of duty and the special demands of his mission made him prevailingly the friend of the friendless and the comforter of the lowly 2 JOHN WESLEY . 17.
... class predilections , or unso- cial partialities , save that his high sense of duty and the special demands of his mission made him prevailingly the friend of the friendless and the comforter of the lowly 2 JOHN WESLEY . 17.
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... duties fully employed his father ; but amid the domestic cares of fifteen living children , his pious and gifted mother found time to devote six hours daily to the education of her family . Passing from under the tutelage of his ...
... duties fully employed his father ; but amid the domestic cares of fifteen living children , his pious and gifted mother found time to devote six hours daily to the education of her family . Passing from under the tutelage of his ...
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... duties they were unequal . Surfeited with their dainties which he had relished as a child , when he became a man he put away childish things with the loath- ing of a matured and higher taste . Assistant to his father for two years in ...
... duties they were unequal . Surfeited with their dainties which he had relished as a child , when he became a man he put away childish things with the loath- ing of a matured and higher taste . Assistant to his father for two years in ...
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... duty , than in its dozen quiet interrogations . " Whether it does not concern all men , of all conditions , to imitate Him , as much as they can , who went about doing good ? " Whether all Christians are not concerned in that com- mand ...
... duty , than in its dozen quiet interrogations . " Whether it does not concern all men , of all conditions , to imitate Him , as much as they can , who went about doing good ? " Whether all Christians are not concerned in that com- mand ...
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... duties , ascetic practices , and abounding charities . His heart told him , and books told him , and the little godly company who met in his rooms all told him , in tones more or less distinct , that he had not yet attained - that he ...
... duties , ascetic practices , and abounding charities . His heart told him , and books told him , and the little godly company who met in his rooms all told him , in tones more or less distinct , that he had not yet attained - that he ...
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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.