Sketches of Eminent Methodist MinistersJohn McClintock Carlton & Phillips, 1854 - 370 pages |
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... - like stillness of the early dawn . The level and the quiet of all around convey the most vivid and instantaneous impressions to the watcher's eye and ear ; and " There is that leviathan ! " ( Psa . civ , 26 , ) bursts from JOHN WESLEY.
... - like stillness of the early dawn . The level and the quiet of all around convey the most vivid and instantaneous impressions to the watcher's eye and ear ; and " There is that leviathan ! " ( Psa . civ , 26 , ) bursts from JOHN WESLEY.
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... early training . At eleven years of age he left home for the Charterhouse- school , but up to that period he was educated by his mother . Literary composition , correspondence , and paro- chial and secular duties fully employed his ...
... early training . At eleven years of age he left home for the Charterhouse- school , but up to that period he was educated by his mother . Literary composition , correspondence , and paro- chial and secular duties fully employed his ...
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... early training , and the studies and duties of his vocation . His views were very imperfect of the doctrines of grace , but his heart was undergoing that process of preparation for their full disclosure and ready reception which might ...
... early training , and the studies and duties of his vocation . His views were very imperfect of the doctrines of grace , but his heart was undergoing that process of preparation for their full disclosure and ready reception which might ...
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... early dedica- tion , has kept the whiteness of its garments unsullied by the pollutions of the world , —has raised visibly everywhere the banner of mercy to the bodies and souls of men , and can say still , as it professed then , " I am ...
... early dedica- tion , has kept the whiteness of its garments unsullied by the pollutions of the world , —has raised visibly everywhere the banner of mercy to the bodies and souls of men , and can say still , as it professed then , " I am ...
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... early period that the Church had no delegated power to ticket men in companies for a celestial journey , and sweep them rail- road - wise in multitudes to their goal ; consequently that this power , where claimed or conceded , was ...
... early period that the Church had no delegated power to ticket men in companies for a celestial journey , and sweep them rail- road - wise in multitudes to their goal ; consequently that this power , where claimed or conceded , was ...
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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.