Sketches of Eminent Methodist MinistersJohn McClintock Carlton & Phillips, 1854 - 370 pages |
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... mind into harmony with the scene , and you wander out some half - mile from your temporary home , like the orphan patriarch of old , to meditate at eventide . The sun has just set over the Jungfrau or Schreckhorn , and , liberal of its ...
... mind into harmony with the scene , and you wander out some half - mile from your temporary home , like the orphan patriarch of old , to meditate at eventide . The sun has just set over the Jungfrau or Schreckhorn , and , liberal of its ...
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... mind , propension , and condition with the peo- ple , which prompted and controlled his career . He looked at the man through the frieze - jacket of careful thrift and " the looped and windowed raggedness " of abject penury ; yea , he ...
... mind , propension , and condition with the peo- ple , which prompted and controlled his career . He looked at the man through the frieze - jacket of careful thrift and " the looped and windowed raggedness " of abject penury ; yea , he ...
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... course of reading as he considered most likely to conduce to his spiritual benefit , and qualify him for his sacred office . Upon the mind of one so religiously and orderly brought up , the Ascetic Treatises of Thomas JOHN 21 WESLEY .
... course of reading as he considered most likely to conduce to his spiritual benefit , and qualify him for his sacred office . Upon the mind of one so religiously and orderly brought up , the Ascetic Treatises of Thomas JOHN 21 WESLEY .
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... mind which could not fail to issue in great good to the Church of Christ , impressions made by his temper of body , early training , and the studies and duties of his vocation . His views were very imperfect of the doctrines of grace ...
... mind which could not fail to issue in great good to the Church of Christ , impressions made by his temper of body , early training , and the studies and duties of his vocation . His views were very imperfect of the doctrines of grace ...
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... mind through Christ Jesus , and for fifty years afterward he never doubted , he never could doubt , of his acceptance with our Father who is in heaven . The sunshine of his soul communicated itself to his countenance , and lighted all ...
... mind through Christ Jesus , and for fifty years afterward he never doubted , he never could doubt , of his acceptance with our Father who is in heaven . The sunshine of his soul communicated itself to his countenance , and lighted all ...
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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.