Sketches of Eminent Methodist MinistersJohn McClintock Carlton & Phillips, 1854 - 370 pages |
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... labours of these modern apos- tles . Every memorial , then , however slight , of the lives and toils of the fathers is at once a blessing to the Church , and a contribution to the true history of the civilization of the age . To this ...
... labours of these modern apos- tles . Every memorial , then , however slight , of the lives and toils of the fathers is at once a blessing to the Church , and a contribution to the true history of the civilization of the age . To this ...
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... from his labour : - " For here the patriarchal days Are not a pastoral fable ; pipes in the liberal air Mix with the sweet bells of the sauntering herd . " Then on the startled ear , that has been learning 10 JOHN WESLEY .
... from his labour : - " For here the patriarchal days Are not a pastoral fable ; pipes in the liberal air Mix with the sweet bells of the sauntering herd . " Then on the startled ear , that has been learning 10 JOHN WESLEY .
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... labour to fatigue , and self - denial to austerity , became a necessity of his nature , while to shine was as deliberately rejected as this was pursued . And it was this thorough oneness of mind , propension , and condition with the peo ...
... labour to fatigue , and self - denial to austerity , became a necessity of his nature , while to shine was as deliberately rejected as this was pursued . And it was this thorough oneness of mind , propension , and condition with the peo ...
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... laboured for ten years ere the birth of his son John , " contending with low wants and lofty will , " with the dislike ... labours availed little to lighten . Our sympathies gather round the " busy bee " whose active industry and zeal ...
... laboured for ten years ere the birth of his son John , " contending with low wants and lofty will , " with the dislike ... labours availed little to lighten . Our sympathies gather round the " busy bee " whose active industry and zeal ...
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... labours of his country cure , God was maturing at Oxford a system of events which was to issue in the result he sought - light to the understanding , peace to the conscience , purity to the life , and an assured sense of the divine ...
... labours of his country cure , God was maturing at Oxford a system of events which was to issue in the result he sought - light to the understanding , peace to the conscience , purity to the life , and an assured sense of the divine ...
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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.