Sketches of Eminent Methodist MinistersJohn McClintock Carlton & Phillips, 1854 - 370 pages |
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... grace , but his heart was undergoing that process of preparation for their full disclosure and ready reception which might be resem- bled to turning up the fallow ground . He was not far from the kingdom of God . While the young ...
... grace , but his heart was undergoing that process of preparation for their full disclosure and ready reception which might be resem- bled to turning up the fallow ground . He was not far from the kingdom of God . While the young ...
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... grace and truth that came by Jesus Christ - a most Holy Inquisition of which no brotherhood need be ashamed- the beatitudes of our Lord charged home , and chambered in the heart by the impulse of an earnest query - a thema con ...
... grace and truth that came by Jesus Christ - a most Holy Inquisition of which no brotherhood need be ashamed- the beatitudes of our Lord charged home , and chambered in the heart by the impulse of an earnest query - a thema con ...
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... a fool that he might be wise . Salvation by grace , and the wit- ness of the Spirit , were taught him by these God - fearing and happy Moravians ; and his understanding became full of light . It was only , however , some JOHN WESLEY . 31.
... a fool that he might be wise . Salvation by grace , and the wit- ness of the Spirit , were taught him by these God - fearing and happy Moravians ; and his understanding became full of light . It was only , however , some JOHN WESLEY . 31.
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... grace , but we see also in it largely the man John Wesley . We fancy we perceive in it no less somewhat of the sturdiness of the national character . John Bull will not be badgered and brow - beaten any more than he will be coaxed and ...
... grace , but we see also in it largely the man John Wesley . We fancy we perceive in it no less somewhat of the sturdiness of the national character . John Bull will not be badgered and brow - beaten any more than he will be coaxed and ...
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... grace in their behalf . Now and then , especially on the Sabbath day , he preached to a crowd who sat rejoicing to be the hearers of the word as it fell from his lips . He paid special attention to the West , for he felt himself more ...
... grace in their behalf . Now and then , especially on the Sabbath day , he preached to a crowd who sat rejoicing to be the hearers of the word as it fell from his lips . He paid special attention to the West , for he felt himself more ...
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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.