Sketches of Eminent Methodist MinistersJohn McClintock Carlton & Phillips, 1854 - 370 pages |
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... heaven , the existing ministry throughout the country was found at that period , as to its most exalted aims and divine results , utterly wanting . We are not blind to the subordinate advantages a widely - established corporation of ...
... heaven , the existing ministry throughout the country was found at that period , as to its most exalted aims and divine results , utterly wanting . We are not blind to the subordinate advantages a widely - established corporation of ...
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... heavens smiled propitiously on our pur- pose , for never did a brighter spring sun pour gladness into the heart than that which shone upon us as we crept blithely along the road that gradually swept up from the ferry . Our sensations we ...
... heavens smiled propitiously on our pur- pose , for never did a brighter spring sun pour gladness into the heart than that which shone upon us as we crept blithely along the road that gradually swept up from the ferry . Our sensations we ...
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... heaven , and freely giving in return . Language and imagery would fail us in depicting sooner than our soul cease from admiring the purity and sub- limity of the object these compassionate men sought by their personal consecration ...
... heaven , and freely giving in return . Language and imagery would fail us in depicting sooner than our soul cease from admiring the purity and sub- limity of the object these compassionate men sought by their personal consecration ...
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... heaven by simple virtue of its corporate existence . These delusions , whereby souls are beguiled to their eternal wrong , soon ceased to juggle him , for his eye , kindled to intelligence by the Spirit of God , pierced the transparent ...
... heaven by simple virtue of its corporate existence . These delusions , whereby souls are beguiled to their eternal wrong , soon ceased to juggle him , for his eye , kindled to intelligence by the Spirit of God , pierced the transparent ...
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... heaven . The sunshine of his soul communicated itself to his countenance , and lighted all his conversation . To speak with him was to speak with an angel of God . From that time he began to preach a new doctrine , a doctrine of ...
... heaven . The sunshine of his soul communicated itself to his countenance , and lighted all his conversation . To speak with him was to speak with an angel of God . From that time he began to preach a new doctrine , a doctrine of ...
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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.