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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... and passing the sounding sea and the dismal marsh , lofty Terracina and lowly Fondi , at length tops the range that encloses the Campagna southward , what object is it chiefly arrests the eye ? In that great ocean of a JOHN WESLEY . 11.
... and passing the sounding sea and the dismal marsh , lofty Terracina and lowly Fondi , at length tops the range that encloses the Campagna southward , what object is it chiefly arrests the eye ? In that great ocean of a JOHN WESLEY . 11.
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... eye takes in , in its sweep , the mountain line of the northern and eastern horizon , Soracte , empurpled by distance , with its sister ridges on the right , the silver sea with Ostia on the left . It marks the ruins that here and there ...
... eye takes in , in its sweep , the mountain line of the northern and eastern horizon , Soracte , empurpled by distance , with its sister ridges on the right , the silver sea with Ostia on the left . It marks the ruins that here and there ...
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... eyes . In the particular field Wesley took upon him to culti- vate he stood alone , or almost alone , and his position adds magnitude to all his dimensions . He fills the picture . It were scarce exaggeration to travesty the Grand ...
... eyes . In the particular field Wesley took upon him to culti- vate he stood alone , or almost alone , and his position adds magnitude to all his dimensions . He fills the picture . It were scarce exaggeration to travesty the Grand ...
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... eye of taste , though old Jeffrey's room still retains much of its ghostliness . The day that revealed to us all ... eyes of both natives and foreigners , that a charter to drain this whole country side was given to Cornelius Vermuy ...
... eye of taste , though old Jeffrey's room still retains much of its ghostliness . The day that revealed to us all ... eyes of both natives and foreigners , that a charter to drain this whole country side was given to Cornelius Vermuy ...
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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.