Sketches of Eminent Methodist MinistersJohn McClintock Carlton & Phillips, 1854 - 370 pages |
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... in ; convinced that such separation as Scripture enjoins ( 2 Cor . vi ) was essential to its growth and welfare - a truth the Christian law teaches and indi- vidual experience confirms . Every benefit the institution of a JOHN WESLEY . 41.
... in ; convinced that such separation as Scripture enjoins ( 2 Cor . vi ) was essential to its growth and welfare - a truth the Christian law teaches and indi- vidual experience confirms . Every benefit the institution of a JOHN WESLEY . 41.
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John McClintock. vidual experience confirms . Every benefit the institution of a Church might be supposed to secure is forfeited when the Church loses its distinctive character and becomes identified with the world . But neither to ...
John McClintock. vidual experience confirms . Every benefit the institution of a Church might be supposed to secure is forfeited when the Church loses its distinctive character and becomes identified with the world . But neither to ...
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... institutions ; and our right hand shall sooner forget its cunning than we refuse to honour their names and com- memorate their deeds . We have no desire to exalt one man unduly above another , but we hardly suppose that any will find ...
... institutions ; and our right hand shall sooner forget its cunning than we refuse to honour their names and com- memorate their deeds . We have no desire to exalt one man unduly above another , but we hardly suppose that any will find ...
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... institution to effect its discharge , it may well be doubted whether this result would not have been wholly prevented by the system on which the business was con- ducted . " The debt of the establishment in 1828 was $ 101,200 80 , two ...
... institution to effect its discharge , it may well be doubted whether this result would not have been wholly prevented by the system on which the business was con- ducted . " The debt of the establishment in 1828 was $ 101,200 80 , two ...
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... institution and kept up its capital . The inevitable alternative must have been , either the curtailment of the business or the destruction of the Concern . Dr. Emory proposed the bold , but necessary measure of an entire revolution in ...
... institution and kept up its capital . The inevitable alternative must have been , either the curtailment of the business or the destruction of the Concern . Dr. Emory proposed the bold , but necessary measure of an entire revolution in ...
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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.