Sketches of Eminent Methodist MinistersJohn McClintock Carlton & Phillips, 1854 - 370 pages |
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... period belong the lives of Fisk , Emory , Levings , and Olin ; but the very names will justify their collocation here with the elder fathers . They are illustrations - wonderful illustrations in fact - of the vigorous.
... period belong the lives of Fisk , Emory , Levings , and Olin ; but the very names will justify their collocation here with the elder fathers . They are illustrations - wonderful illustrations in fact - of the vigorous.
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... period . The general condition of the Church of England was deplorable . There was no lack of learning and respecta- bility in many quarters , but , as a whole , its state could not satisfy a conscientious observer . The study of the ...
... period . The general condition of the Church of England was deplorable . There was no lack of learning and respecta- bility in many quarters , but , as a whole , its state could not satisfy a conscientious observer . The study of the ...
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... 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 more or less educated men must entail upon a land , men by their profession ...
... 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 more or less educated men must entail upon a land , men by their profession ...
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... period he was educated by his mother . Literary composition , correspondence , and paro- chial and secular duties fully employed his father ; but amid the domestic cares of fifteen living children , his pious and gifted mother found ...
... period he was educated by his mother . Literary composition , correspondence , and paro- chial and secular duties fully employed his father ; but amid the domestic cares of fifteen living children , his pious and gifted mother found ...
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... period of his history : never even when most completely led astray as to the ground of the sinner's justification before God , did he fail to recognise the necessity of con- version and individual subjection to the laws of the Most High ...
... period of his history : never even when most completely led astray as to the ground of the sinner's justification before God , did he fail to recognise the necessity of con- version and individual subjection to the laws of the Most High ...
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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.