Sketches of Eminent Methodist MinistersJohn McClintock Carlton & Phillips, 1854 - 370 pages |
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... feel that we breathe , that we live , Is worth all the joys that life elsewhere can give , " and passing the sounding sea and the dismal marsh , lofty Terracina and lowly Fondi , at length tops the range that encloses the Campagna ...
... feel that we breathe , that we live , Is worth all the joys that life elsewhere can give , " and passing the sounding sea and the dismal marsh , lofty Terracina and lowly Fondi , at length tops the range that encloses the Campagna ...
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... feeling save that of sorrow for the sufferings and sins of men , their eyes suffused with pitiful tears , and they resolved to do what they could . Suffice it to say , that , baptized in such a laver as this , the Methodist Church ...
... feeling save that of sorrow for the sufferings and sins of men , their eyes suffused with pitiful tears , and they resolved to do what they could . Suffice it to say , that , baptized in such a laver as this , the Methodist Church ...
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... feel the need of personal religion to secure the salvation of the soul . He was hap- pily circumstanced in being the ... feeling about this time , he made a surrender of himself to God , made in partial ignorance , but never revoked ...
... feel the need of personal religion to secure the salvation of the soul . He was hap- pily circumstanced in being the ... feeling about this time , he made a surrender of himself to God , made in partial ignorance , but never revoked ...
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... feel that they had reached an eminence in the divine life on which his college studies , extensive erudition , and pains - taking devo- tion had failed to land himself . He therefore sat himself at their feet ; he verified the Scripture ...
... feel that they had reached an eminence in the divine life on which his college studies , extensive erudition , and pains - taking devo- tion had failed to land himself . He therefore sat himself at their feet ; he verified the Scripture ...
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... feeling after God , if haply we may find him , though it be amid the darkness of nature and the tremblings of dismay . We may scarce have ability to repent after a godly sort , yet ought we to bring forth " fruits meet for repentance ...
... feeling after God , if haply we may find him , though it be amid the darkness of nature and the tremblings of dismay . We may scarce have ability to repent after a godly sort , yet ought we to bring forth " fruits meet for repentance ...
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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.